Question

Just had a check up and I was wondering if 3,600 ectopics in a seven month period was good.

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by Alma Annie - 2014-07-02 07:07:58

I often have about 12 a minute. Most people don't feel them but with a pm one can. My Ep says don't worry, they won't hurt you. However it is always good to have a check up.
Alma Annie.

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by NiceNiecey - 2014-07-02 11:07:11

I think 3600 is excellent. Most of us have a LOT more than that. Someone posted a couple months ago that they were having many thousands of them each month. Their doctor explained that when taken as a whole of the number of times one's heart beats a day, it's not that significant. .

I copied the following from Wikipedia:

Ectopic beat (or cardiac ectopy) is a disturbance of the cardiac rhythm frequently related to the electrical conduction system of the heart, in which beats arise from fiber or group of fibers outside the region in the heart muscle ordinarily responsible for impulse formation (i.e., the sinoatrial node). Depending upon the origins of the ectopic beat within the myocardium, an ectopic beat can be further classified as either:

a premature ventricular contraction, or
a premature atrial contraction.[1]

Some patients describe this experience as a 'flip' or a 'jolt' in the chest, while others report dropped or missed beats. Such extrasystoles are more common during periods of stress or debility; they may also be triggered by consumption of some food like alcohol, strong cheese, or chocolate.

It is a form of cardiac arrhythmia in which ectopic foci within either ventricular or atrial myocardium, or from finer branches of the electric transduction system, cause additional beats of the heart. Some medications may worsen the phenomenon.

Ectopics

by golden_snitch - 2014-07-03 03:07:17

Even if you had 3600 ectopics per DAY this would still be considered normal. That amount in a period of 7 months is nothing, peanuts. Don't worry about it. Ectopics happen in everyone, even the completely healthy people. Some feel them, some don't.

Inga

thanks

by JuPage - 2014-07-03 05:07:36

Thank you all for comments x

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