[Cheers]

My holter ended Sunday. I am hoping it will bring more info. I felt about 10-12 skips during the 48 hours. I also exercised (tho not hard) for about 50 mins while on it. AND drank wine just to see. I also did not take my anti-anxiety med during that time because Doc thought it would help see it at its worst. While I wasn't at my very worst, I did have some stuff for sure - likely PACs.

I ordered all my records to be ready for Thursday morning. Tracings and all. I have an appt with a straight cardio later that morning. My mom thinks he and his staff are really great...so there's that

By Friday, it is my goal to get back to a normal life. Reassurance, peace of mind and acceptance is on the plan for me. I will not and cannot let this consume me any longer.

Thank you all for being here to listen to my whining!!!

[DaniRae]

Thats what I am talking about! You are going to do great. I am looking forward to hearing about your results and what the new cardio says as well. I am sure they are going to tell you to stop worrying and to enjoy your life

[dr461]

Originally Posted by Cheers

My holter ended Sunday. I am hoping it will bring more info. I felt about 10-12 skips during the 48 hours. I also exercised (tho not hard) for about 50 mins while on it. AND drank wine just to see. I also did not take my anti-anxiety med during that time because Doc thought it would help see it at its worst. While I wasn't at my very worst, I did have some stuff for sure - likely PACs.

I ordered all my records to be ready for Thursday morning. Tracings and all. I have an appt with a straight cardio later that morning. My mom thinks he and his staff are really great...so there's that

By Friday, it is my goal to get back to a normal life. Reassurance, peace of mind and acceptance is on the plan for me. I will not and cannot let this consume me any longer.

Thank you all for being here to listen to my whining!!!

Good LORD--10-12 skips in 48 hours!!!!! Is that even PVCs??? I have that many in a few minutes. I'd say that is so infrequent that you already have your answer--IGNORE!!! I'd give anything not to have thousands a day, and you only have a few in 48 hours. Does that even qualify as an arrhythmia????

[CMoore416]

I hope you get the peace of mind you need. I really want to achieve that peace it I juts can't seem to get there despite being told I'm fine. It just hard to accept how something that does not feel normal and is called abnormal can be normal and ok. I always have barely any when I wear a Holter. Then next day after Holter they come lol. I almost want to wear a monitor for a few days so I can feel better although not sure it will help. Anyways keep us posted!

[Cheers]

David - I know it sounds like peanuts compared to most of you...but most people I know IRL never get them at all. I think I would be less nervous had the electrophysiologist not so strongly suggested an ablation. It is also possible I had more than I felt. Have to wait for the results I guess. It is also possible those were all short SVT runs like on the event monitor. Who knows. The whole thing has me confused.

[dr461]

Originally Posted by Cheers

David - I know it sounds like peanuts compared to most of you...but most people I know IRL never get them at all. I think I would be less nervous had the electrophysiologist not so strongly suggested an ablation. It is also possible I had more than I felt. Have to wait for the results I guess. It is also possible those were all short SVT runs like on the event monitor. Who knows. The whole thing has me confused.

I think we have established that the electrophysiologist doesn't know what she is talking about, as she's contradicted by 3 cardiologists, and another electrophysiologist. You obviously don't have a serious arrhythmia that concerns any legitimate specialists, so it seems that the doctors who told you to "forget about it" are correct. Serious heart issues don't come and go, and are not intermittent. Nor would any sensible cardiologist let you walk out of the office, without major intervention. To anybody being logical, it is very clear, and straightforward.

[jkfrench]

I feel the same way David. I just had that many sitting her for 10 minutes. I think PAC couplets cause I was getting the quick double beats. I'm okay if I just feel it happen once, but I hate when they decide to stay with me for a while (the couplets). Mine have been increasing over the last week. Who knows why. I can accept them most of the time but it still makes me sad.

[Cheers]

I know I probably sound like an ass complaining about this. But please know that it isn't always 10 in 48 hours. There can be a full week with absolutely nothing (that I feel anyway) or like last Thursday when I was having them every 30 seconds. Still, I do know it could be worse. And maybe that is a bit part of the fear - that it is getting and going to get worse. I never used to be this bad...so I worry that whatever this is is progressing.

I too just want to be normal and feel normal. I am anxious and so fatigued all of the time. I am not a happy, fun parent and I so want to be. I do not want my child to see me this way. I want to exercise without being afraid. I dont want to feel these damn skips anymore.

I watched my father take his last breath at age 46. I have never been the same since. I never worried about death before that. I also do not want to waste my life the way he did. I want to live to be an old lady...a grandmother...watch my daughter grow up and be happy. Every time I feel these skips, I think that isn't going to happen.

I do fully realize this is mostly mental. But over a decade of being told this is all in my head when I could feel otherwise - I find it impossible to trust anyone who tells me I will be ok. I need to get over all of this psychologically. I know that.

Please do not think I don't appreciate the fact that most of you have had to deal with so much more. I really do.

[jkfrench]

Oh my goodness I know you appreciate all of us and what we go through. I also have days where I feel maybe 10 or so. I know exactly how you feel. When mine increased to over 300 in 24 hours (which I know to David isn't anything) I was a mess. (that was on a holter I wore 2 years ago) Plus, the hundreds that I get are grouped together so I am getting several a minute for a few hours, not just 12 or so an hour). I could have written your post. It is mostly mental for all of us if the doctors say we are okay. That doesn't always help when we feel them and they physically make us tired and depressed. I don't even have a problem feeling them if they are few and far between. But when they start up several a minute for hours, then that is a different story. I hope your doctor visit will bring reassurance for all of us. I remember my last holter (last year) only showed 15 PVCs and 16 PACs. The day before I was having hundreds and hundreds. I ask the doctor, "so let just say that I was wearing it when I was having hundreds of them" with couplets and brief bursts of SVT like my holter before that showed (although I was having many many more than 300 in 24 hours) and he just says the same thing. It doesn't matter. Your heart is normal so it just doesn't matter. Hard to get a grasp on that isn't it. On the good days yea maybe, but not the bad days.

[DaniRae]

I think that is what we all fear, if I am not mistaken. The what if's. What if we wake up with them every other beat.What if we wake up in VT. How will I handle constant skipped beats...

I know it's a fear of mine but you have to remember, there are loads of people who only have 50 a day for the rest of their lives. There are others who have thousands and thousands per day and live longer then those who never feel a palp.

We are all going to be fine and one day we will have a "skippers reunion" and all walk in, using our walkers and chasing down the young'ins :p