Vitamins etc...

As some of you know I've been having what they are telling me are PAC's on a daily basis. They told me they are harmless. They started after the PM...I never had them before it. A few an hour on some days....they make me jump a little as they startle me.

The other day I started taking vitamins again...just a regular daily vitamin and a Folic acid tablet. I've noticed the PAC's are down to only 1 or 2 per day!!!!!!!

Is this because of the vitamins? A coincidence? Or am I psyching myself up?

Thanks,
Wendy

3 Comments

maybe

by Tracey_E - 2010-01-15 07:01:01

If it's working, who cares!? :o)

I notice a difference when I remember my calcium/magnesium and fish oil supplements every day. It definitely doesn't hurt.

Interesting

by FirstDuely - 2010-01-15 08:01:01

I have been having some beat irregularities but I seem to notice them more when I have the flu or am feeling sick and I am not at all certain that it is due to lack of vitamins or other minerals. I really am trying to ignore the weird beats. Here's why:
What I seem to understand from my doctor and the nurses is the pacer senses that the heart wants to beat on its own (a pre-beat) but the hearts signal is not strong enough. The pacer senses the electrical pulse from the atrial node so the pacer "waits or pauses briefly to see if the signal is strong enough. When (this is what happens every time with me...SSS with total AV block) the pacer fires off and makes the heart beat. It feels like a pause, the ventricle fills with more blood, pacer fires off and all that blood gets pushed out at once. Kind of scary in that it feels like a "thump" in the chest each time.
Having explained this quite a few times to my doctor and the nurses over several years and with them not really getting all excited about this, I figure (as TraceyE put it so eloquently above) who cares!? I even drove in one Monday after school, thumping all the way, only to find out the pacer was fine...I was really scared but wasn't immediately thrown into a hospital bed. I got some blood tests done that day and doc said my magnesium was really low, potassium somewhat.
So when I get to the thumping episodes I take some more Mg and K and make sure I've taken my multiVit and Mineral supplement (has 100% RDA of Folic Acid). Yeah, fish oil, too besides my two blood pressure meds each day (want to get rid of those hopefully). I also take some B6 for my type A personality (that's going away now with my retirement).
If that all doesn't seem to work then I get on my roadbike (cycling) and ride for 3-4 hours because I reason that if it IS the heart then riding for 50 miles will prove it one way or another AND if it is the pacer then the same is true.......BTW, I'm still here.
I sure hope this helps. I will see my doctor again at clinic in March and I will take this issue up with him and try to get a better answer for us all. Until then I guess we just have to keep moving fast???

Could be the Vitamins

by Bionic Man - 2010-01-15 11:01:52

I started taking a multivitamin from Centrum about a month and a half ago. I definitely feel better taking a vitamin. I sometimes wonder if it's all in my head but as long as I feel better who cares. I started taking these vitamins because they were supposedly good for the heart. The only thing I don't like is they look like horse pills. They're huge!!!
Bob

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You always have something close to your heart.

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