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The big question!
Mar 04th, 2012, 4:43pm
 
I guess for folks who suffers from PVCs, PACs, Flutter, AFIB ...ect the big question is WHY? I have often ask why do I have those things...

It started for me when I was 25 years old. I was in the military and was posted in one of the crappiest place in noth America.  One night I couldn't sleep and I think I started to have PVCs that night. I think I had a very difficult period where I was very worried and anxious...I mean "very anxious". (First Palps ever (as far as I know))

First "why" answered: I you have no underlaying heart conditions, I really beleive that PVCs can be first triggered by a strong/prolonged stress/anxiety period in your life. What's bad about it, I also beleive that's once you get it one time, it seems like a way of choice for your boddy to deal with stress and anxiety.

So, had first time Palps at 29 and now I'm 49 and the darn things are still going strong. As if that wasn't bad enough, it seems that with age it evolves from Palps to Flutter to AFib and god knows whats next.  Angry

This is my first time talking about this to anyone other than my wife and children.  I feel compelled to ask othe rpeople their stories so I can see if other have had this in the same manner I did.

In my case it has evolved from Palps to Flutter in a perior of about 20 years (Palps : doctors say nothing to worry about). With the Flutters came the beta-blockers (Dr. (Cardio) say, blood test, 80 Miligram (Sotalol) twice a day and still nothing to worry about), then more Flutters came so now here come the stress test, 48 Hrs Holter and even an echo (like for pregnant women) and of course now it's 160 Miligrma Solalol.  A year later more Flutters with AFib and now we get to see a specialist (EP) and here come 240 Milligram Sotalol day and night for a year.  Finally a year later, still Flutters and AFib, the ablation finally happenned.

Now you think I'm done? they stop the Sotalol completely and tell me the Flutter Ablation Procedure was a "TOTAL" success. That was 18 May 2011, came back home on the 20th may, that same night back at hospital 12 straight hours of AFib.  LOL back on Sotalol 240 Mgr twice a day.

Now 9 months later they lowered my Sotalol to 160 Mgr twice a day.  But about one month ago I started having epizided of PVCs like I never had before. Like every 2 or 3 heart neat at times (like 10,000 a day for sure). Here we go back on Sotalol 240 Mgr twice a day with a holter.  Then I saw my Cardio again, he told me its not bad, they are benign of nature and you will have them for life.

You know I am wondering if there is not another cause than stress here.  Has anyone had the same kind of shory as I do?  do the doctors lie to you and keep telling you that your OK? sometimes I really think I'll end up bad.....to me its not normal to have that sort of thing. I did read much about it...about treatments, causes ect ect ect and once you start googgling this, it's a never ending loop.

Well that's it for now ...looking forward to some comments. Ho! and no I don't drink, smoke or take drugs 8).

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Re: The big question!
Reply #1 - Oct 13th, 2012, 3:48am
 
Hi there - sorry you feel so bad.  I have had skipped beats episodes for about 30 years, sometimes I get  a few weeks respite, but they always come back.  I haven't had a day without them for some time now, I feel the misfiring in the middle of my chest so many times in the day.  It's a horrible feeling.  I've had tests, and they say it's ectopic beats, nothing to worry about.  I do believe them, but it doesn't stop me hating it and worrying about it when it's particularly bad.  I think like you, I'm just stuck with it for life.  I am calmer about it than I used to be - but it doesn't mean I like it any better! And I still have times when it panics me, when it feels so bad it is like my heart is leaping about in my chest and the thumps are so strong...  We just have to hang in there I guess!  It's not killed us yet, after all!  This site is a big help, coz people really understand how it feels - if you don't experience it yourself, you can't really know what it's like.  Sorry I can't give any brilliant words of wisdom, but you are not alone, honestly!
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Re: The big question!
Reply #2 - Oct 24th, 2012, 9:05pm
 
Exactly, that is the big question WHY? because only if we know why then we may have a hope to fix the palpitations or control them.
In my best times I try to forget, to let it go, to release the obsession of finding the WHY and dropping all my data collection and all the associations I make. But it just takes one moment where I feel a little more fear and everything falls apart. I am thinking that that is how my life will be: a roller coaster of ups and downs with palpitations and I just can hope and pray that the ups are not that real bad. I am terrified of Afib, I remember I experienced it when I was around 12 years old and I was soooo scared. I told my mom and she took me to the doctor. They said it was normal. Normal?? that was very scaring for a 12 year old.
I lived my life pretty much without palpitations until I was 32 years old. One day at one time my heart went into Afib again and the same exact feeling and the same exact fears that I had when I was 12 appeared. Since that time I have been living with palpitations but I am terrified of going into Afib one of this days. I so much wish I could have the answer to the WHY......
You are not alone Scooby

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