Anyone experience occasional palpitations or premature ventricular contractions?

[3mm]

Anyone have a good cardiologist or PCP within a couple hours of Cleveland? I’ve already burned through a dozen or so bad ones.

The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is 8 hours west of Cleveland on I-80. Dr Gebska is an excellent cardiologist. Dr Farjo is an excellent electrophysiologist. I'm sure the other cardiologists and electrophysiologists at the U of Iowa are also excellent. Gebska and Farjo have given me wonderful care. 8 hours means an overnight trip, but your life is worth it! Please contact me if you have questions about the U of Iowa.

I strongly encourage you to find a cardiologist and an electrophysiologist to work with.

 

[Amy]

@3mm

Thank you for the recommendation.

Yes. Not having a good, capable, trustworthy PCP, let alone cardiologist, is extremely stressful when I have scary mystery symptoms.

I would much rather have one.

But continuing the search for one becomes its own stress.

When you have been ignored, mocked, laughed at, lied to, never been given advice, insights or understanding; left hanging when it’s 4 months postop and your incision has STILL not healed; literally walked out on in the middle of an appointment; threatened with legal action if you contact them again (this my surgeon’s office, by the way, for trying to find out if the low dose aspirin he prescribed with the warfarin was really necessary after all, as I thought I was reacting to it); when you see nothing but blank stares (when they bother looking at you at all) incompetent looks and blatant unconcern.... well, the idea starts to come to you that maybe you’d be better off without them... even if it means maybe dying... just as long as you don’t have to meet any more of them. Or their nurses. Or their secretaries and appointment-makers.

 

[CAG12345]

I had palpitations and my cardiologist gave me a holter monitor to wear for 48 hours. It helped to determine it was a very small amount of PACs and PVCs (less than 1%) that wasn't dangerous. Also I had been taking omega 3 supplements at high dose and stopped, as well as more vitamin d3 than was needed, stopped both and palpitations stopped. Now I get my omega 3 from fish and taking low dose of vit d3.

 

[BillCobit]

A Kardiamobile 6L monitor has helped me study my PVC problem. I am also working on with my electrophysiologist and cardiologist on this issue.

I've been using a Kardiamobile 6L monitor for the last year. The advanced features such as detecting PVCs requires a yearly fee. Note: There are cheaper Kardia monitors that do not have these features, so look carefully at the monitor you are buying.

When I use my monitor it shows some information immediately on my phone app. However, to see the PVC count I need to download an EKG pdf file to my phone; this pdf has more information, including the PVC count for the 30 second reading I just took. I can then save these pdf files, and I also can email these pdf files to someone.

If during a 30 second recording I have several PVCs in a row, it does record all of them.

There are some limitations. I need to sit quietly while I operate the monitor, so I must wait a few minutes after exercising to avoid an EKG that is just useless noise.

I'm happy to further discuss PVCs if you have more questions.

I have also been using a Karida Mobil 6 lead to track my PVC’s. PVC’s are not difficult to identify, so you can avoid the subscription if you want. There are brief YouTube tutorials (nurses and med students = target audience) that will show you how to ID PVC’s.

 

[3mm]

There are brief YouTube tutorials (nurses and med students = target audience) that will show you how to ID PVC’s

Yes, I've watched various videos that teach a user how to read an EKG. My PVCs are easy to read. In fact, I can also listen to them with a stethoscope and clearly hear the PVC, as well as the long delay of the next beat. I learn about my own body!

 

[dornole]

I will have to learn this. I know a lot about valves gathered over the last 20 years but little about rhythm stuff