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I’ve had a long history of PVCs and other palpitations but luckily usually a very low % burden. But I don’t have much recent data on it because I don’t own a home monitor and the latest monitors from my doctor are from a few years ago.

Lately I’ve been waking up at night with a lot of anxiety, feeling like I’m having a ton of gentle PVCs. Since I’m half asleep (and don’t have a monitor device), it’s hard to know with any certainty what’s actually going on. When I intentionally feel my pulse with my fingers during this late night episodes, it actually does feel like I’m having frequent gentle PVCs, but again it’s hard to be sure when I’m half asleep and don’t have a monitor device.

I think it’s likely that the PVCs are harmless (even if maybe greatly increased in frequency during these episodes) but late at night it still creates this massive sense of anxiety, dread, and worry, which in turn disrupts my sleep for the rest of the night. And of course inadequate sleep messed up everything in life.

And I hate this uncertainty feeling of not knowing what’s real versus imaginary, what’s anxiety versus reality, what’s dangerous versus harmless. It’s making me want to run back to my cardiologist (who I’ve been trying not to bother) and run to a psychiatrist…

Anyone have insights or similar experiences?

Thanks.

(FWIW I’m 44m, lots of cardiac workup five years ago which didn’t find anything concerning, taking metoprolol anyway to keep things calm because of the variety of palpitations documented in my years-ago monitors despite low % burden).

Hi, I’m a 42 year old male. I’ve had PVCs and various other palps (including occasional super brief NSVT runs and some random heart racing incidents) for years. Luckily my burden % has always been quite low, with the exception of a few brief flareups. Did a bunch of workup (stress echo, CTA, MRI) 5-10 years ago which didn’t raise any red flags. I’ve been on Metoprolol ER for 5 years as well — which my doc said is more to control the symptoms rather than for safety reasons as he doesn’t believe I’m in any health danger.

Anyway, just wanted to vent or get anyone else’s experiences or insights: over the past few months I’ve been noticing that almost every morning I get a sensation of numerous gentle popping skipped beats (probably PVCs?) while I’m in bed waking up. It seems to be a few per minute for about 15 minutes. It’s possible it goes on longer but that I can’t feel it as clearly after I get up and start moving around. I don’t have a home ekg monitor so I haven’t captured what they actually are.

Any thoughts about why this would be happening every day specifically in the morning? Thanks.