| jmmatthewsUser Since: Aug 2013Posts: 4 | Hi,
My name is John, I'm a 32 year old guy that used to love working out and running all the time and I've been suffering from PVC's since October of 2011. When it first started I was scared out of my mind not knowing what was going on, I couldn't focus on work, my relationship, or anything else for that matter due to the fact that I was having thousands a day..AND FELT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! I even quit going to the gym thinking I was going to have a heart attack if I ran or lifted weights. Well, as a result I ended up losing my job and a girlfriend not to mention everyone thought I was out of my mind crazy telling me..."Oh it's all in your head." or "It's just anxiety." No one (except maybe a few senior citizens) knew what I was even talking about and it was driving me up the wall so in February of 2012 I finally decided to go to my dad's internal medicine doctor and he gave me an EKG ,a 24 hour holter monitor (which he saw about 1,000 on), and a blood work up that came back normal and he perscribed me Toprol XL and I'm not one for taking medication and all about natural cures(Oh, I'm a pescetarian btw) so I decided to tackle the problem myself. I've tried just about everything out there...Magnesium,Potassium,Apple Cider Vinegar, CoQ10,Fish Oil,Taurine,L-Arginine,stopped drinking coffee,ct my alcohol consumption down to like 2-3 beers once a week, stopped eating sugar\ chocolate etc...EVERYTHING!!!! AND NOTHING IS WORKING!!! (My father, grandfather,mom, and brother have them to...not sure if they have/have had them as worse as I do.)
So, here it is July,2013 and I'm having a lot of them..like all day, everyday...24/7. There are times that if I lay on my stomach I have a pvc every other beat until I get up and move to another position...the same thing goes for when I lay on my back (not all the time but sometimes.)..The weird thing is, is that they seem positional and I can even make them happen by breathing in heavy, swallowing, or bending a certain way, after eating they are also bad if I don't get enough sleep and like everyone else, being scared or nervous makes them worse...not a day/hour/ or minute goes by without me having them...they are constant. I don't have any fatigue,shortness of breath, chest pain and have since started back running and lifting heavy weights again, traveling all over flying etc... because I said screw it, obviously it ain't gonna kill me and I'm not gonna let it ruin my life and the nervousness and fear of these demon palpitations has since subsided...I mean sometimes I worry but it doesn't cause me panic attacks or anxiety anymore...lol in a weird way, they've become part of normal everyday life now and I don't think twice about them when I feel them... so mentally I'm in a good place and have accepted the fact that I have them and they're not going anywhere soon.
But the thing I'm here for now, is to see if anyone has had any success with any kind of natural supplement, or had a procedure that knocked the crap out of these things...I'm not taking any medication EVER as crazy as that sounds I'm a firm believer that it doesn't cure anything, it just masks it so keep all the rhetoric about Metoprolol, Atenolol, Flecainide,Propafenone to yourself cause I'm not going to take it...I'd rather just live with them. So if anyone has any advice or anything that they think can help don't hesitate to sling it my way. |