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Here is a solution that works for many: Having
been told time and again that their heart is healthy--and having NO lab
work or indeed any experience with exercise that contradicted this statement--people finally agree to see a psychiatrist about
dealing with panic/anxiety.
Treatment may involve medication in the form of
short-acting tranquilizers as well as antidepressants of the SSRI group, and in
a few weeks on this regimen, you may find you have your life back
again. Counseling is a huge part of learning how to deal with your
fears. Once you can control the panic you will gradually became less
and less aware of the PVCs. Most amazingly, the number of PVCs
actually decrease as you become less aware of them. Bottom of Form
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At some point, you are simply going to have to accept
that Drs. who repeatedly examine your heart and find nothing wrong are
very likely correct. For the most part, cardiologists have seen
heart conditions that are life threatening and they actually can tell
when a heart is basically OK, especially when the patient is young (as you are)
and does not have symptoms that prevent him/her from doing ordinary things like
walking around, going up stairs, and so on. You feel your PVCs
when you do these things, but you can still perform your normal activities,
right? A really diseased heart actually prevents people from
doing activities of daily living.
That being the case, what then are your options? Your can spend the
next fifty years holding your breath in fear and wasting what should be a
perfectly good life--or you can see someone about panic, which is a symptom
that is treatable.
kindly,
Kitt