[RVV]

I never felt PVCs in my throat, however my mom does sometimes, and she often has to cough when she has them. This summer I came across an interesting medical case study. One woman went to her doctor, complaining of reoccurring cough. Standard testing did not show anything to be wrong with her throat, respiratory system or immune system. Her doctor had no idea what caused the cough. Luckily for her, she was referred for further testing, which included a 24 hour Holter. The results showed that she experienced frequent PVCs throughout the day, which coincided with her coughing. She never felt her PVCs in her chess or the throat, but she almost always had to cough when she had one! Cough was the only symptom she got from PVCs!
She was referred to an electrophysiologist, who preformed a successful ablation, eliminating all of her PVCs and her cough cleared up. The authors of the study suppose that both PVCs and cough were caused by overactive nerve, which innervated her ventricles and her throat. Just the way her autonomic nervous system was wired. The ablation did not only destroy part of her heart tissue, but also damaged that nerve, causing the cessation of this abnormal reflex. I found this case to be very interesting!

[CMoore416]

I feel a ton in my throat and I can even take my neck pulse and feel the pause and half the time the actual ectopic beat in the pause

[shellylabelle]

David,
Do you ever get them in your upper abdomen?

[dr461]

Originally Posted by shellylabelle

David,
Do you ever get them in your upper abdomen?

Yupp......upper abdomen and lower chest, right below the sternum. I get them higher up as well. The good ole THUMP or flutter.

[jkfrench]

Mine aren't even like a thump or flutter. They just feel like I am dropping in an elevator for a second. Or like someone lightly punched me in the upper stomach. Takes my breath if I am getting a lot of them and trying to talk. And that feeling is right above my belly butten. Dead center. The feeling is associated with the pause as I feel my pulse when the stomach ones start up.
I get all kinds of feelings but haven't felt the throat ones...yet! Either I feel the drop in my stomach when it pauses or I feel the flutter in my chest from the early beat. Probably something to do with the timing as I am told my PVCs are unifocal.
I mentioned it to my cardio and he says many people feel them there. Who knows. Maybe because I am small and there isn't a lot of room in there. (as my Gastro told me when I got my colonoscopy without sedation I might add because I was afraid of the drugs).

[Katie]

Jodi- I wish I had the option to do drug- less endoscopy on Tuesday. I have been back and forth about being worried and feeling fine.

[Susie]

I have them in my throat, they scare me, also, in my upper abdomen, it seems like the soft flutters scare me more than the heavy skips. Ever since I took off the monitor, I am noticing them more than ever, now, I am scared again, dang it.