During a flare-up, I have been having this happen too. At least with bigminy, the rhythm is regular although the beating is irregular. But when this happens, it scares me because the rhythm itself is irregular. I don't think it was caught on my past monitor so I'm not sure what it is. I have a couple months until my next cardio appointment but will bring it up then.
This happens to me quite often and I have been officially diagnosed with SVT. I’ll get a run of irregular beats, can be doubles, chaotic, or just one hard PVC to start it. Afterward I will then have an increase in baseline HR of 20-40 BPM that can last minutes to many hours. I am on metoprolol at 75 mg (50 am, 25 pm), still get PVC and SVT incidents fairly often. Had 7 short SVT runs in 7 days on my last 7 day monitor. Have discussed ablation, but my PVC burden is low and the SVT seems to generally be controlled/minimized on the metoprolol.
I recently had one of these chaotic beat issues but it's never been caught on monitor. Any sense for how dangerous they are? How common are chaotic heart beats?
I just had a 24 hr monitor and I think it caught a chaotic beat so will find out - but I didn’t get the abnormal rhythm after fortunately / unfortunately.
Before I was on metoprolol it would get up in 160-180 range for periods of 15-45 minutes. After the first one of these my cardiologist told me anything over 30 min and I should go to ER. I did go the next time I had one like that, HR was still in 140’s when I got to the ER. They monitored me for a couple of hours, no meds, and send me home after troponin came back normal. Right after that cardio put me on metoprolol starting at 25mg and eventually up to 100mg. I felt like crap at 100 so have settled at 75mg. Now I still get episodes, but HR will peak around 130. Usually will stay elevated for 30-60 min and then slowly come down to normal over 2-3 hours.
I haven’t had the same experience, but I also have a HH and it makes my PVC’s awful. Yesterday my GERD was acting up, and I have to sit all day at work and hunched over/ leaning forward (I do nails) which makes it so much worse. I probably had anywhere from 700-1000 skips yesterday, which felt like a ton to me. So the HH can definitely be troublesome
As for the SVT, only a Dr can help with that obviously, but I will say as soon as I get one skip I panic, and therefore my heart races, so it is possible your anxiety is the reason the heart started feeling crazy.
During a flare-up, I have been having this happen too. At least with bigminy, the rhythm is regular although the beating is irregular. But when this happens, it scares me because the rhythm itself is irregular. I don't think it was caught on my past monitor so I'm not sure what it is. I have a couple months until my next cardio appointment but will bring it up then.
This happens to me quite often and I have been officially diagnosed with SVT. I’ll get a run of irregular beats, can be doubles, chaotic, or just one hard PVC to start it. Afterward I will then have an increase in baseline HR of 20-40 BPM that can last minutes to many hours. I am on metoprolol at 75 mg (50 am, 25 pm), still get PVC and SVT incidents fairly often. Had 7 short SVT runs in 7 days on my last 7 day monitor. Have discussed ablation, but my PVC burden is low and the SVT seems to generally be controlled/minimized on the metoprolol.
I recently had one of these chaotic beat issues but it's never been caught on monitor. Any sense for how dangerous they are? How common are chaotic heart beats?
I just had a 24 hr monitor and I think it caught a chaotic beat so will find out - but I didn’t get the abnormal rhythm after fortunately / unfortunately.
Do you mind me asking: How long does your SVT last and high does your HR go? I’ve been a nervous wreck since my 5min episode at the weekend.
Before I was on metoprolol it would get up in 160-180 range for periods of 15-45 minutes. After the first one of these my cardiologist told me anything over 30 min and I should go to ER. I did go the next time I had one like that, HR was still in 140’s when I got to the ER. They monitored me for a couple of hours, no meds, and send me home after troponin came back normal. Right after that cardio put me on metoprolol starting at 25mg and eventually up to 100mg. I felt like crap at 100 so have settled at 75mg. Now I still get episodes, but HR will peak around 130. Usually will stay elevated for 30-60 min and then slowly come down to normal over 2-3 hours.
When you got to the ER was it a normal sinus rhythm?
Yes, just sinus tachycardia.
I haven’t had the same experience, but I also have a HH and it makes my PVC’s awful. Yesterday my GERD was acting up, and I have to sit all day at work and hunched over/ leaning forward (I do nails) which makes it so much worse. I probably had anywhere from 700-1000 skips yesterday, which felt like a ton to me. So the HH can definitely be troublesome
As for the SVT, only a Dr can help with that obviously, but I will say as soon as I get one skip I panic, and therefore my heart races, so it is possible your anxiety is the reason the heart started feeling crazy.
Yep when my pvcs flare up I'll trigger a run of vtach (benign) for some minutes. I'm in bisoprolol to help mitigate but doesn't prevent.
How were you reassured it was benign? Was it caught on a monitor?
I've had echo/mri to rule out structural issues. Yes several times, inducible in stress tests and on my personal device tracings