[Cheers]

I am now having a skip every 20-50 seconds or so. How long do I let this go on???

What can I try right now to curb them? I already took my klonopin (about 20-30 mins ago). I am trying everything I know how to relax.

[jkfrench]

It can go on forever (but it won't) and you will be fine.
Can you take a walk?

[Cheers]

walking around the house. seems worse when i lay down. have i really done this to myself with anxiety...it that REALLY possible??

[DaniRae]

Totally possible... Big day tomorrow!!!!!

[Cheers]

How? How is that possible?? It was never that bad ever.

[Katie]

Anxiety probably from the anticipation for tmrw. I went 12 hours with them every 6 beat or so one night. It was torture. Couldn't sleep through them. Went to my GP she told me I wouldn't die from them sent me home told me to sleep and I did when I woke up they were gone. Take an Epsom salts bath with lavender. Then lay in bed thinking about other things like landscaping ur yard etc. Anything to get ur mind off the pattern of skips

[dr461]

Originally Posted by Cheers

walking around the house. seems worse when i lay down. have i really done this to myself with anxiety...it that REALLY possible??

You did. You are obsessed with the doctor's appointment and that alarmist electrophysiologist. You have benign ectopics. Besides, a skip every 25-50 seconds is nothing. Try running bigeminy for 3 straight days, and it was still benign, and nothing to worry about.

[jkfrench]

Anxiety will cause this. Absolutely. Last year I was having 5 to 6 skips a minute for hours on end. I run to my cardio and he listens to my heart, he hears all the skips and sends me home! Within the hour, they calmed down. So yes, again it is anxiety. You are all ramped up over that crazy electrophysiologist doctor and going to see a new one tomorrow. All of us pvcers think that way.
I am sure after your appt. tomorrow they will settle down. Meanwhile, if they haven't settled down yet, do what my doctor says. Go find some stairs and run up and down them 10 times!

[dr461]

Originally Posted by jkfrench

Anxiety will cause this. Absolutely. Last year I was having 5 to 6 skips a minute for hours on end. I run to my cardio and he listens to my heart, he hears all the skips and sends me home! Within the hour, they calmed down. So yes, again it is anxiety. You are all ramped up over that crazy electrophysiologist doctor and going to see a new one tomorrow. All of us pvcers think that way.
I am sure after your appt. tomorrow they will settle down. Meanwhile, if they haven't settled down yet, do what my doctor says. Go find some stairs and run up and down them 10 times!

^^^^^^^^^^^^
What she said. Smart Lady!! Listen to her and relax! Once the cardio doc says the "normal" word, you will be fine. Get that electrophysiologist out of your mind--she's overreacting. Ablations are normally done on people who have thousands to millions of PVCs, and who have exhausted every other option.

[bypeep]

Here's my trick to ignoring the palps when they are constant...

I tap my chest. Sounds strange, but it really, really helps. What it does is drown out the sensation of the palpitation. I tap regularly and slightly faster than my regular heartbeat.

Another thing that might snap you out of this cycle is doing some bearing down. It's a vagal maneuver. You clench all your chest muscles down, kinda like you're taking a poo, but instead of pushing toward your abdomen or butt, you focus the pressure in your chest cavity. Do it hard enough to make your face turn a little red, exhale first or while doing so. Hold this for several seconds. You can repeat it for a few times - sometimes it does the trick.

But if it doesn't. Tap, tap, tappity, tap, tap. Knock on you upper ribcage hard enough so that it vibrates and those feelings might well overcome the feeling of the palpitations. I also think it might stimulate the vagus nerve and help to override the palps. Not sure though, but for whatever reason, after a few seconds of tapping, my palps disappear. When I stop, they sometimes come back.

You mention laying down makes them worse. This happens to me too. If I'm in bed sitting upright and lay down suddenly, sometimes I get nailed with palps. So I sit back up and they go away. Lay down, palps start up again. Sit up, they go away. Since I can't sleep sitting upright, I'll compromise by propping myself up with pillows to the point that they stop, then slowly slide down when as they subside.