Skipped beats

Skipped beats

by AgentX86 - 2018-09-03 22:56:31

These are probably PACs or PVCs and not dangerous.  A pacemaker won't help these.  All it can do is keep the heart at a minimum heart rate (the "brady" part).  The metoprolol is to keep your ventricles out of tachycardia. PACs and PVCs are neither, so aren't affected by the pacemaker.

If you get a string of these, you might note the time and have them looked into.  Your pacemaker should record them for future interrogation.  There is probably nothing that can be done for them but it would be good to make sure they aren't dangerous.  I know it's little consolation but knowing that they're benign should help you sleep. In any case, this is what your PM Tech and EP are there for.

Skipped Beats

by Scott W - 2018-09-03 23:03:22

Thanks Agentx 86! Ya that’s what I was afraid of.  And also what I was told by the Doc who put in my PM. He said I needed to learn to relax, do yoga, and not live so stressful.

It’s the anxiety of these missed beats that doesn’t help.

so I guess taking metropol won’t help much. 

Thx again.

Skipping along

by Gotrhythm - 2018-09-04 16:30:14

Pacemakers can't help skipped beats, sorry. However, many factors can affect how many we have--some of which are under our control. Lack of sleep, getting dehydrated, getting upset, angry, nervous, over-heated, poor diet, electrolyte imbalance, stress from any source--if we have a tendency to skipped beats, all these will make the problem worse.

Fortunately, taking rational care of the body, supplying it with what it needs and not ever-stressing it, is well within our control.

Read the package insert on any drugs you take. Many drugs can have a side effect of causing skipped beats. Acid reducing drugs, and corticosteriods, both of which I take, can deplete the body of magnesium. I have found a magnesium supplement to be very helpful.

Nothing, that I know of, will make skipped beats go away completely. However, there is much we can do reduce the overall number, all of which are good for our health.

Thanks Got Rhythm!

by Scott W - 2018-09-04 16:52:54

I loved youtr feedback. I always figured I may have more control over these. I tend to live in the fast lane when it comes to stress and anxiety as well as not sleeping as well as I should. Being 61 I am getting to the time where "we just cant do what we used to with no result on our body". And that is the adjustment I am trying to make. I work with a counselor and she is trying to get me to "calm down" more and be in a more calmin emotional state of mind.

I will for sure try the magnesium supplement for sure! And your other advise I have clipped out and will keep with me to get me "in line" so as to minimize these to as great of an extent as possible.

Thanks again.

Skipped Beats

by Scott W - 2018-10-20 16:59:59

Hi All,

I love this forum!! I just experienced what felt like a brief heart stoppage which is why I got the PM in the first place. Is this a common symptom that comes with my skipped beats that happen once or twice a day. After it happens I just feel pretty tired. And anxious.

Ive been under much stress and anxiety so trying to relax and work out. Ironically the skipped beats never happen during work outs where I get my HR up pretty high.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be really appreciated and again, really like this site.