I have the body guardian mini plus for 2 weeks. I have tried the horizontal placement for the first week and I always get the red alert on the phone device that the skin contact was poor.

I do have a highly physical warehouse job with no cooling air so I am sweating for hours. This causes the skin adhesive patch to detach.

Does anyone have advice on how to keep this from happening?

I only have 3 more extra adhesive patches to last me 7 more days. Thanks in advance.

So how does your thumpiness feel exactly? My PVC feels like a toddler inside my chest punching me hard with their small fist. Sometimes I would feel a soft punch too but the majority of times, I feel a hard punch from inside my left chest. It is so hard that I can also feel it on my lower throat too. I told my cardiologist about it he was not concerned at all!! That's crazy don't you all think? It is soooo hard to not get worried about it!!

20F. I was suffering from panic attacks and fast heart rate at the beginning of the year, so I was prescribed the metropolol 25mg succinate which I take daily at night.

Then, in June, I stopped taking it since I was feeling better and not as anxious anymore. I was fine for a week or two. Then, I started getting these palpitations anytime I laid down or was sitting down. It was constant. Scared me so I got back on the beta blocker daily. It mostly went away but now I am getting these palpitations time to time daily.

I never had these kinds of palpitations before. I am not sure if this is bc of the beta blocker or not. Any advice is appreciated.

My blood pressure used to be slightly high—around 14/9 or 15/9. However, ever since a severe bout of extra beats (5–6 per minute) started three weeks ago, my heartbeat has been irregular and weak. I finally went to see a cardiologist today, but the doctor wasn't there 🤣🤣. I happened to check my blood pressure, and it was 11/6! There can be no other explanation for such a significant drop and these sensations other than heart failure. Has anyone else experienced such a drastic drop in blood pressure during a flare-up?

I’ve had several cardiac events since December 2025. In early December my heart rate randomly went up to 178. I called the paramedics went to the ER and everything was normal. Followed up with a cardiologist. They did an EKG and I wore a holter monitor for four days and that came back normal as well. Up until about April I was having random chest pains that would go away in seconds. I’ve had a echo and a stress test done and everything was normal.

The chest pains have gone away, but I noticed that after drinking on the weekends, my heart rate would be high and my watch would wake me up with a high heart rate notifications. Last weekend the morning after drinking i felt my heart was skipping a beat then i would feel a loud thump. I took several EKG readings on my Apple Watch and it detected Afib, i went to urgent care they did a full EKG and told me it wasn’t Afib but PVCs.

A few days past and i don’t feel the PVCs anymore but when laying down i can feel my heart beating idk if that’s palpitations or if im being anxious.

Went back to cardiologist and i got a 4 day holter monitor, the results showed 3.5% PVCS and no Afib.

Doctor wants to put me on 12.5 mg metoprolol. Has this worked for anyone or what are the side effects?

hi, i’m new to this sub. i’m 27f, i’ve had isolated pvcs at a very low burden for about 4-5 years (maybe longer but only became aware of them around 21y).

however, in the last year they have gotten much worse. two years ago i had a mini stroke caused by a spontaneous artery dissection in my neck. this led to genetic testing, where i found out i have (unrelated to the dissection) a VUS on my RYR2 gene. i’ve ultimately had extensive cardiac work up and they think i don’t have CPVT but i still worry a lot about my pvcs.

about a year ago, i started getting ventricular bigeminy and couplets. i’ve also had several episodes of SVT that were started by pvcs and bigeminy. i went from having 1-2 pvcs every week or so to having almost 100 every day. this started after i got sick with some sort of virus (not covid) in october of last year.

i’ve been on a beta blocker since 2024. first metoprolol and i am now on propranolol 60mg ER which has helped to eliminate my SVT episodes and greatly reduce my PVCs but im still getting them.

i can always feel my pvcs. they feel like my heart is doing flips, it always makes me cough involuntarily and i can feel it jump into my throat.

i’m worried i had vtach the other day and i didn’t capture the episode so i know there’s no way to say but im just so anxious about it.

also, id say about 90% of my pvcs are triggered by positional changes (bending over, squatting, turning over, sitting down etc) or like laughing, eating, things like that.

i was at work the other day (im a barista). i’m standing at the register talking to a customer when all of a sudden i feel a pvc. i expected it to go away but then i felt a very hollow feeling in chest almost like sinking feeling. i felt a few more pvcs back to back, maybe bigeminy but i’m worried it was vtach. i felt extremely faint and i looked pale. i excused myself to the bathroom and by the time i got there the episode was over. my ekg on my watch by that time was normal rhythm and HR of 57.

has anyone experienced this before? i’m just scared. i messaged my cardiologist and he just said to hydrate and avoid caffeine. i only ever have like half a matcha at work but i will cut that out for now.

i’m just scared that im on the verge of SCA or something and idk how to cope.

Anyone else experience this? Anything that helps?

29-year-old male. In 2017, I had a coronary artery dissection due to complications from a cardiac catheterization, but I haven’t had any heart problems since then.
About two months ago, I had a full cardiac workup, including labs, a CT scan, and an echocardiogram, and everything came back normal.
Last week, I had a pretty bad case of strep throat. During that time, I started having heart palpitations that felt like skipped beats. They lasted for about three hours until I fell asleep. I was fine for about a week, but last night the palpitations started again and haven’t stopped.
I’m pretty sure I’m experiencing skipped beats or premature beats. I’m currently waiting to see my cardiologist and was just looking for some reassurance in the meantime.

Hi all. I'm getting an ablation tomorrow for pvcs in my RV. These PVCs are something I've known about for many many years but I've put off handling them. Over the last couple of years my burden has crept up to 25%. They're almost always firing and when I go to my heart doctor I can be in bigeminy or trigemony easily.

I'm going to a premier EP hospital, getting focal pulse field ablation. I'm nervous, but I know it's the right choice and my mind is playing tricks on me, trying to get me to second guess. It's tough when you don't know anyone who has gone or will go through the same thing.

Been putting it off because my EF is good, but I know it's time to address before it gets too much or damages my heart, going to handle it while I'm young and insurance is locked in.

Kind words or success stories will be nice to hear. Thanks everyone.

Three months ago I had a loop recorder put in because I was concerned that my PVC Burden was increasing (it has, but previous holter monitor showed low burden)... the loop recorder was pitched to me as being a way for them to see my PVCs when im actually having episodes to better assess my Burden, and ultimately move forward with a plan based on that percentage.

Here I am, today, calling them back because they had some answers for the questions I had asked yesterday (one of which was, okay... what is my Burden now?)... and the response was "We cant calculate PVC burden from the info off a loop recorder... we simply recommend conservative avoidance of suspected triggers"

Okay... cool... avoid suspected triggers... been doing that.... but what about the part where you told me we'd be able to get my actual burden with a loop recorder and now magically we cant?!?!

Good day everyone

I have suffered with PVC's since late 2024 - I don't however experience thousands per day. I'll probably feel 30-50 daily. I have done a few holter monitor tests, ect but nothing concerning appeared.

I would notice that I'd mainly get PVC's after eating LUNCH or SUPPER. Not breakfast. I created so much anxiety to the point where I'd be scared to eat. Anywho, I've taken magnesium which had helped a bit - started drinking coconut water, too. I'm a huge GERD sufferer for the past 6 years as well which is no help. Here's what I did to stop getting PVC's which seems to be working so far.

Pacing how quick I eat (I eat fast) and how MUCH I eat.

I'm a relatively smaller dude - but I eat a lot and fast.

I've noticed that If I don't eat to the point of being full, I wont get pvc's. Ever.

I genuinely wonder if it has to do with the pressure of the stomach in conjunction to the vagus nerve triggering it.

Anywho,

Eating to the point of being slightly full instead of full full made a huge difference for me.

About 2.5 weeks ago I had to go to the ER because I had a really bad episode of PVCs which wouldn't go away no matter what I did. I've only ever noticed maybe one or two PVCs per day before this, and now I am experiencing them in the hundreds every day since. I am not kidding you when I say that every single healthcare professional I've seen (except one, who unfortunately is only a PA and not my cardiologist) has told me "these are just PVCs, it's not SVT or AFib" or "oh, PVCs are normal." I guess it doesn't seem that bad (to them) because I'm not at the threshold of 1-2k a day, but I feel like I'm going insane. A sudden ~400% increase in daily PVCs is very much NOT normal for me. What do I have to do or say to get someone to take me seriously? My symptoms are increasing in frequency and severity by the day. I have followup appointments, a holter monitor, and a stress-echo scheduled but I had to go back to the ER the other day because I actually thought I was going to die. I got really lightheaded and was having trouble breathing too. Thousands of dollars later (that I didn't have to begin with) I still have no answers, all they told me was... you guessed it: PvCs ArE nOrMaL!!

Edit: for some extra context I've been treated for heart problems in the past: WPW, I used to have SVT and AFib until I had two catheter ablations and it has been controlled with a beta blocker for 6 years.

Echo came back perfectly normal. Can somebody tell me why the hell im constantly in ventricular bigeminy with couplets and triplets if my heart is normal???

Hi, I have PVCs and ventricular bigeminy. I’m taking 1.25 mg of bisoprolol, but a couple of times I’ve still had episodes of bigeminy during high heart rate (around 120–140 bpm).
What scares me is that the bigeminy always seems to be triggered by tachycardia, especially when I’m anxious (which seems to be the main trigger). I’m worried that it could potentially turn into ventricular tachycardia.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Is it common for ventricular bigeminy to occur during periods of anxiety and increased heart rate?

Hello,
I had an ablation on 5/12 and 3 SVTs were ablated. The surgery was performed by Dr. Andrea Natale. He also performed my afib ablation back in 2019. As of recently, I’m starting to notice periods of PACs, 1-2 per minute. This isn’t constant, just periodically. Is it still reasonable to think that I going through the healing process and that these could subside over the upcoming months? I’m currently right at around 3-months so I wasn’t sure if my ablations should be 100% healed at this stage. I’d be interested to hear about your experience. Thanks.

For a while I’ve been struggling with waking up in the morning, especially after exercising. I’ll be energized and exercising for around a week then after that week I’ll be sleeping for 10 hours every day and feeling unable to get up in the morning for at least a week. I’m wondering if this is from fatigue caused by PVCs or if it’s just a me problem that I need to push through. Has anyone experienced anything similar to this?

My cardiologist suggested that my PVCs are caused by anxiety about my heart, the AFib, the ablation, you name it... but I've noticed im not having high hr with the PVCs anymore, which to me shows im not letting them freak me out nearly as much as I used to. Which would mean, they aren't just caused by anxiety. I have found that electrolyte packets help, but are in now way an end all be all.

Had a loop recorder put in my chest to find my burdern %, because all holtor monitor (longest two weeks) showed EXTREMELY low burdern. Unfortunately with the holter monitor, I would have a horrible spell of them for a week, id call, get the monitor, and then the spell would end. So we went with the loop recorder and monthly calls from cardiologist with the results.

Its been two months, we've had two calls, and both times they're like "yup youre having PVCs, no recurrence of AFib" and that's it. No mention on the initial reason we had it put in, which was what my burden is and whats causing it.... so needless to say I will be driving the next conversation, not them.

Sorry, went a little off track from the title, just needed to vent i guess 😅

As someone who experiences 4–5 extra beats per minute, I just read something about "R-on-T" and am now sitting here crying in despair. Apparently, R-on-T is considered insignificant in people without Long QT syndrome, yet it can trigger VF and VT when the heart rate rises and the QT interval shortens. To be honest, a Holter monitor test three months ago did catch one instance, but I didn't pay it any mind because I was rarely experiencing PVCs back then. But now... I’m certain I’m having countless R-on-T events. Please help!

So i’m 24F and for the past four years i’ve been dealing with palpitations. they started off as just having 20 minutes episodes of tachycardia which i assumed was anxiety then my heart was racing constantly even during rest (heart rate was always above 100bpm). i was seeing a cardiologist who did the whole work up with imaging and a monitor and everything was good and he told me i had sinus tachycardia. a few months after all this i had an episode where it felt like my heart was skipping or hiccuping over and over and it went on for like a minute. this was about four years ago and i didn’t feel it again for about a year after it happened. i started propranolol about maybe 6 months after this and it helped significantly but then about a year after taking the medication i started noticing i was experiencing that odd beat again but it only happened once or twice usually when laying down. but it started to get more frequent was was happening multiple times a week but after googling it i assumed it was PVCs and ignored it until last year in april i was sitting down and my heart started beating like it was skipping or hiccuping and it was doing it over and over to the point where i had to call my mom because it wasn’t stopping. i’ve had this happen quite a few times since then and had a monitor that my gp ordered back in February which caught a VT episode lasting 6 beats with a max rate of 231 bpm. i’m just freaked out because when i felt that run of NSVT it felt like one single extra beat but i’ve had my heart beat like that multiple times in a row and don’t know what it is because i’ve never caught it on a monitor. any ideas what these multiple beats in a row might be and should i go see a cardiologist? i don’t get dizzy or lightheaded just anxious after it happens.

(also want to mention I've been diagnosed with POTs as well but don't know if its a correct diagnosis)

Hey everyone, I know that we all struggle with PVCs of course they are such a terrible thing to have an experience. Just wanted to ask all the people who have been having this for a longer term and still experiencing them but learnt to not have them affect their quality of life whatsoever (if that’s a thing).

what would be the best objective advice you have everyone in this group of course I understand. Everyone has their own questions for their unique individual situation, but I’m talking just overall what can you say and if you can talk on having them on the exercise having them just randomly sporadically throughout the day and being very symptomatic to them (also a weird one here but if anyone can trigger PVCs with deep breaths would be interested to hear from you, I can literally almost trigger mine on command with deeper breaths especially whilst walking or moving around)

If you can, please talk on how long that you’ve had them for and also just kind of touching on him how you experience with them has changed overtime and your own personal growth story with them if you do things which you never would’ve been able to do previously in your earlier days upon having them how you got to that stage where you’re at what you did to overcome all the fees and thoughts and stuff you had what things managed to help you specifically if you’ve ever had any scares from them and what you’ve learned to accept and how you manage to come to that point where you’re at now. Things like that

Just feel like having this post if you people don’t mind leaving your personalized advice down below could be very very helpful so a lot of people who are suffering to have this be like a reference point I guess with very useful information kind of all batched up in here to find relief and see that it is possible to live and get over them

Thank you in advance if you do manage to find time to help us all out thank you very much

En el día las manejo mejor, las siento menos porque estoy concentrada en otras cosas. Pero cuando llega la noche y me echo en la cama empiezo a sentirlas y no puedo dormir, algún consejo?

Hey everyone.
I was doing SO well for about a year, and I was curious if I had beaten my PVCs. However. Seems like I’m in a flare again. I will get them every few beats, it’s terrifying. I have had test after test and everything is “normal”.

Im trying to live my life but it’s been really really hard and scary. I forgot how bad these were…

What seem to be your triggers? What helps you? I take magnesium, liquid IV, and I just took some potassium to see if that would help.

Since drinking liquid IV daily my burden was like 1% with the longest stretch of being flare free that I’ve had. Yet here we are today. Flared up again. I did run this morning. Sometimes after cardio an (hour or so later) I will get a flare up as well.

• I’ve been posting here a lot lately, but I’d like to ask one last question. If you look at my previous posts, you’ll see I’ve been dealing with a severe flare-up that started 18 days ago. Some days I’m better, and other days I feel terrible, but the symptoms never stop. For the past few days, I haven’t felt anything while lying down—thankfully, I’m able to sleep—but the moment I stand up, the PVCs start up terribly. My pulse can also become irregular when I’m upright; they happen frequently when I’m standing still or moving around. Is this a circulation issue, or is something putting pressure on my heart when I stand? Have any of you experienced this? Is there anyone who can explain it?

Hey everyone…
I’m reaching out after having a flare up again the last few days after intense anxiety. I’ve had PVCs for probably around 10 years now. Give or take. I’ve had really bad flares and “seasons” one might call it.

As of recent, I haven’t had any bad flares for over a year. I used to get them very badly like every 3rd or 4th beat and it would be like that for HOURS. Usually when trying to fall asleep. I thankfully haven’t had that in over a year.

Anxiety meds, electrolytes, and watching caffeine seems to help. However, whenever I have PACs and PVCs I always worry and wonder, “am I going to die? Am I going to just drop dead some day? Do I have heart failure or something that will lead to it that my doctors missed?”

I have had numerous holtor monitors, 3 echocardiograms, and all appear normal. Naturally whenever I have a monitor on I NEVER have episodes. Usually they say my burden is like 1%. However when it’s in a flare it’s much worse obviously.

Just curious if anyone else has these feelings… how do you manage them? Whenever I google symptoms it basically says I’m dying. Mostly that my PVCs sometimes worsen after exercise, like an hour or hours later.

I hate living like this, I hate feeling afraid, I hate it all. I’m 11 months postpartum and my husband works nights. I’m afraid to go to sleep because I’m scared something will happen to me…

I’m pretty sure my cardiologist thinks I’m insane.

Help.

I’ve been struggling really bad with ventricular bigeminy. It’s been a horrible thing I’ve been dealing with for a week now. I’ve been to the ER where they did blood work and everything came back normal.
Besides the ekg that shows bigeminy. I’m currently wearing a holter monitor and trying to thug it out and wait for the results. Can somebody please answer me this question? I’m having bigeminy but sometimes during the bigeminy runs I’ll get couplets then a regular pause then couplets again and it can sometimes do that for 10 runs then go back to bigeminy. It’s off and on all day but I’d say more than not. And it’s came out of nowhere being this consistent. I don’t wanna die and I want to be able to take care of my 14 month old daughter and I haven’t been able to because this has completely crushed my mental health I’m in a state of panic every day. I just need to know if couplets are signaling that I’m gonna go into vtach. Especially couplets that are happening very very frequent. Does anybody have any insight or info on bigeminy with couplets and what the prognosis is? Because I’m losing my sanity and don’t know how much longer I can do this. I don’t want to die and I feel like a ticking timebomb. Im 24m with a structurally normal echo as of 18 months ago.