malena35User Since: Oct 2013Posts: 5 | Hello,
I am new to this site. First, sorry in advance because my English is not so good :) Anyway, I've been having PVC's for almost four years now. They started out of the blue one day and the most I had on 24-hour holter was around 3.000 and a few brief incidents of non-sustained VT. I am 36 year old female and my heart is otherwise healthy. When my PVC's were really bad, they put me on low dose of sotalol and first couple of months it was great, NO PVC's AT ALL, but then they slowly started to come back... At this point, I have them every day very frequently (despite taking sotalol) and they also wake me up from my sleep a few times at night, which never happened before. Dr's don't know what to do, they just tell me "live with it" (yeah, right) and refuse to listen when I tell them things are getting worse... I am at my wit's end, crying and feel desperate all the time, and I feel like a hypohondriac because no one seems to understand how terrible it is to live with this condition. I tried Magnesium, Omega 3 and CoQ10, took them every day for months, but nothing seems to help much... So here is the question: how do you live and cope with your PVC's? What do you do when the drugs are not working anymore? And is there anything else that might help them reduce just a little bit? I read that some of you take potassium, I never tried that - maybe I should? Thank you for your patience. Any advice will be greatly appreciated, I am really depressed... |