Anyone have NSVT???

[Bostonian08]

Hi everyone,
i've been having PVC's for about a year and just found out that my 2-week event monitor caught some episodes of NSVT as well. Everything I've read seems to say that this is much more serious than PVC's - although so far everything shows that my heart is structurally normal. I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who has had NSVT for years and years? I just find it hard to believe that my heart could go on like this for the duration of a normal life. I'm only 29 and am hoping this heart will last me another 50 years! This is very scary...   :(
thanks,
Jen

[poohbear2026]

Hi,

I am currently wearing the 30 day monitor, and it also caught a 4 beat run of NSVT.  It scared me to death because they said they were sending it right to my dr and I had to do another recording while I was still on the phone.  My dr then sent me for a nuclear stress test and an echo.  I go back to him tomorrow to find out everything.  He tells me to try to not worry about it.  Of course that is very hard to do.  There are alot of scary things out there about NSVT but you can also find things that say if everything is structurally normal then it is okay.

Hope all goes well with you
Anita

[upbeat633]

I've had 25,000+pvc/day for the past two years, I'm mostly in bigeminy and trigeminy, but I have a lot of couplets, triplets and several episodes of nsvt up to 10 beats in a row. But the party line is still the same "in a structurally normal heart, it's ok".

So if you've had an echo or any other test that shows your heart is fine, even nsvt is just another blip on the radar screen. Maybe it's not much of a reassurance, but I've been through it for years and I'm still here.

[Momto3]

Hi Jen,

I had quite a few episodes of NSVT over the course of many years.  Like Upbeat, I've also had tens of thousands of PVCs.  Eventually (like over 25 years), I ended up with PVC-induced cardiomyopathy. PVC-induced cardiomyopathy is rare, so you probably don't have to even think about it. But, if you should start having thousands of PVCs/day, you probably just want to get an occasional echo to see if all's well.  I have a leaky mitral valve so I get periodic echos.  That's how they caught the cardiomyopathy.  In the setting of a structurally normal heart, like Upbeat said, "just another blip on the radar screen."  I think you'll be just fine.   : )

Connie