Hey Reddit!,

I’ve always had these “weird” feeling heartbeats that would often take my breathe away. I’ve been to doctors and cardiologists and they never happen (of course) when they do tests like EKGs and doctors always say I’m perfectly fine (even did a echocardiogram).

I finally was feeling them and I think I was able to capture it on my Apple Watch.

Is this what a PVC looks like? Again feel they uncomfortable and makes me short of breath when it happens.

I will definitely be showing it to my doctor as well.

  • Justanobserver2life@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Just warning you to not get your hopes up. Occasional single PVCs are not at all uncommon and most docs won’t work them up. If you are symptomatic, which you say you are, stress that. Feeling palpitations can be annoying, but in general, not harmful. More frequent PVCs that are strung together could be more of an issue. Some people have trigeminy or bigeminy etc which are PVCs at regular intervals of every 3 or 2 beats…and some have V Tach–basically all PVCs. Some have symptomatic and some asymptomatic, but don’t want to be in V Tach and that requires medication and or cardioversion. Broad strokes here, not medical advice.

    You’ve been to cardiologists, per your post, and I assume you’ve been cleared. They can prescribe something called a ZioPatch which does a 2 week monitoring and you can press the event button if you feel any symptoms, so that they can correlate those to the rhythm at that moment. Check with insurance. Mine was covered.

    I would advise you ask your question in r/medicaladvice for other opinions.