Anyone else get this?

Do you think it is back-to-back PVCs (skipped beats) with no gap between or a different symptom altogether?

I have had bad PVCs for the last 6 months but this pounding is new to me. I get it late evening & at night when I go to bed. I get pounding for about 12 beats or so, 5 normal beats, then pounding again... My PVCs have been worse in the day recently too.

I can live with the skipped beats but the pounding is horrible. I keep thinking I'm going to have a stroke or something.

Please post if you get the same.

Hi Squiggle,

I have had PVC's for years but since going through my changes (seven months without a period) I have noticed a change in the frequency and intensity of my palps. I do notice lately at night they have gotten more intense and it feels like a pounding where it used to feel like a missed beat. It is worse if I have alcohol, am hungry or tired. Sometimes it even make me feel light headed which did not happen before. They sure get scary and the anxiety makes them worse. I try not to think about them but it is hard when a 50 pound gorilla is jumping on your chest.

I have had the PAC's but then I was in a-fib and had to go to the hospital a few times always at 2am I would get it.
Now I am on a calcium channel blocker that controls the rate of my heart when it goes from PAC's into a-fib. I convert back to normal after a few hours but a few times it had been 4 days. I do not have heart disease - just menopause.

Thanks guys!

I had the pounding for about 3 days and then it went as my period arrived. No palps for 2 weeks, then a few the last couple of days (ovulation?), then none yesterday. I've had 2 sessions of acupuncture since the pounding started - I'm hoping it's helped. I never had so many days off between palps before. Maybe the odd day in the last 8 months.

Isn't it awful that when you try to rest this happens?I actually got very angry,because it happens even if tried to take a nap-so finally I thought well,I can sleep or lay here fearing death-and if I am going to die I can't stop it-well the anxiety dropped,and soon I was not hearing the heart beats as loudly.I read that panic can make palps worse,so I am trying to not get upset-its so hard sometimes.Hope you get better-GOD bless.

I get it pounding heart before bedtime, and believe it is anxiety related, since I have no PACs or PVCs, so mine are due to anxiety. Then I check my pulse it is 80-85, but it feels like my heart is racing. So I take xanax before bedtime, an hour or so, and no pounding heart. I think it is adrenalin, especially if I stay up late, then I get "2nd wind" so to speak. I get sleepy around 9. So if I go to bed- no problem, if I "struggle" to watch TV or read, I will get it.

Hi everyone:

I usually don't get the pounding before bed but sometimes I get them when I first wake up in the morning. You would think that one would be rested after sleeping all night but then again, maybe it is my body getting ready to get up for the day. It doesn't happen all the time though.

Mopsy

Iradan - yes I agree on the adrenaline front. The pounding seems to be staying away right now, but those few days I had it I was getting adrenaline rushes out of the blue (midafternoon and bedtime) on the few days either side of them. The doc said it was panic attacks but I get those too & this felt different. There was no fear associated with this, just shakiness from the adrenaline. I had some acupuncture and afterwards I felt unhumanly exhausted for about 5 hours afterwards. The adrenaline surges went. I had more acupuncture since and also in the past, but not the same exhausted feeling as a response. The acupuncturist said that he had relesed the adrenaline from my body on that ocassion which makes sense.

Interesting what you say about the Xanax. We can't get that easily in the Uk (docs won't prescribe it long-term) but I took a valerian dose one time and the pounding was softened but the shaky feeling remained. Valerian is supposed to work in a similar way to Xanax as i understand it.

LadyE - yes I know that feeling well. I have felt so bad with the anxiety and PVC palps at times that I've actually gone to bed, felt even worse, but gone to sleep despite it thinking "I might as well die somewhere comfortable"!! (LOL)

Iradan - yes I agree on the adrenaline front. The pounding seems to be staying away right now, but those few days I had it I was getting adrenaline rushes out of the blue (midafternoon and bedtime) on the few days either side of them. The doc said it was panic attacks but I get those too & this felt different. There was no fear associated with this, just shakiness from the adrenaline. I had some acupuncture and afterwards I felt unhumanly exhausted for about 5 hours afterwards. The adrenaline surges went. I had more acupuncture since and also in the past, but not the same exhausted feeling as a response. The acupuncturist said that he had relesed the adrenaline from my body on that ocassion which makes sense.

Interesting what you say about the Xanax. We can't get that easily in the Uk (docs won't prescribe it long-term) but I took a valerian dose one time and the pounding was softened but the shaky feeling remained. Valerian is supposed to work in a similar way to Xanax as i understand it.

LadyE - yes I know that feeling well. I have felt so bad with the anxiety and PVC palps at times that I've actually gone to bed, felt even worse, but gone to sleep despite it thinking "I might as well die somewhere comfortable"!! (LOL)

I have actually thought as long as my husband is home and can care for the kids I don't care if I die,then I get upset for thinking it,lol,of course I care -I just get that tired and angry.