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Run of PACs/PVCs

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danisha70256
danisha70256

Just had a short run of one of those things. About 10 skipped beats.

Normal then skip normal for a while then skip, normal then skip...

I am on a 7 day monitor so I hope it caught it. I was previously diagnosed with PACs. But the frequency had been scaring me.

I heard a row of these are potentially dangerous. I don't feel any other symptoms. I might head to a clinic and get an EKG done today but I'm also afraid it's too late.

I've had soo many EKGs these past couple of months and heart echos. All normal sinus rhyhmn.

But has anybody experienced rows like this? And what did it turn out to be? I fear V-tach, but that might be a reality for me.

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  • danisha70256
    danisha70256

    Posted

    I wonder if I should get an implantable loop recorder.
  • danisha70256
    danisha70256

    Posted

    I've been to the ER many times as well. I was just there like, three days ago actually. I checked out fine there as well.

  • peter01729
    peter01729 danisha70256

    Posted

    Hopefully everybody is different, but I would initially get a single PVC/Ectopic beat, then a couple, then nothing for months then a year later it was more frequent and stronger, the NHS 24 hour ecgs always missed them, in the end I bought my own little hand held ecg which meant I could record them when they were happening. Personally I think it was the beta blockers then coming off them suddenly for an EP study that joined all my PVCs together to form daily Ventricular Tachycardia, (see the personal ECG I took by clicking the little picture. As for an implantable loop recorder, I have a Reveal Link installed and I wonder why, In still get PVCs since the ablation I had, they just no longer form VT, I have given up triggering it as nobody takes any notice. With the ecg machine I bought, I could show them what happened, every time they sent an ambulance, they could record what happens. A couple of weeks back I had to wear a 48 hour holter monitor, I asked why as I have the loop recorder, they said the loop recorder, because it isnt connected to different parts of your body, doesn't tell them what part of the heart is going wrong.

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