Anyone Else get PVC's but Heart Rate Does not Race or Go Up?

[HermTex]

From all the postings here and other forums I've looked at, it seems most people with PVC's get as a symptom a fast or rapid heart rate/high pulse rate after they experience PVC's.

When I check my pulse after a PVC, its just plugging along as always at around 72-80 (normal).  This is even if I get an adrenaline surge after a powerful PVC.

Is there any significance to this?  Or am I lucky in a way?

[fxmom]

My heart rate doesn't increase either. I'm generally in bigeminy or trigeminy with about 20-25 thousand pvc's per day and my pulse is usually in the 50-60bpm range.  Sometimes my blood pressure will drop while walking  up the stairs or doing light physical activity and that's usually when my pulse will kick in a little around the 70-90bpm range. Strangely enough I have to lay down to get my blood pressure to go back up.  I was wondering about low pulse rate too.

[achillea]

Your experience is the same as mine, in general.

However, if I am having a panic attack (I get them sometimes), my heart speeds up and the number of PVCs increases as well until I calm down.  There is a huuuge association between fear/anxiety and the production of PVCs.  This is usually attributed to having a lot of adrenaline coursing through the blood stream.

But on the other hand, quite a few people here note that they have *more* PVCs when they are at rest and their heart rate is lower.  That's due to a different mechanism related to the natural pause between heartbeats.