I would like to know what a "thick heart "
is and why does it cause irregular heart
beats like premature ventricular
contractions??
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Shareileen
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Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 2 Location: Mount Pocono, PA USA
PVCs: Pre Ventricular Contractions Posted: 04-14-08 00:21am
I am not a doctor but I have had a lot of
personal experience with PVCs.
I don't know about the "thick heart" but
the PVCs can be caused by smoking too
much, caffeine intake, stress and not
sleeping enough. They are generally not
harmful unless they really go crazy.
I have found that if I consume a lot of
calcium; milk, ice cream and so on they
get worse but sometimes magnesium can stop
them, magnesium can cause a lot of gas if
you take too much and diarrhea. I keep
bananas and cashews on hand at all times,
the potassium in banana sometimes works
and the cashews have magnesium, manganese,
potassium and this for can work at slowing
the PVCs down or eliminating them. But
this is not a real fix for them just a
treatment so to speak. Sometimes it's an
inbalance in your electolites.
There are doctors who now can track down
the site on the heart of the offending
electical impulse source and using radio
frequency alblation can zap the offender.
I have only heard about this through a
cardiologist not investigated further.
I have been through the halter monitor
twice with no results. Only threw one PVC
during my cardiac stress test at the very
beginning and no more. The halter I don't
think works at all for this, I wrote down
every single one I had while wearing it
and nothing ever showed up. Same thing for
my mother and my sister. I tried several
prescription medications, verapamil and a
couple of others that did not work they
only lowered my BP too much, I run low
(110/62 around there) so any BP medication
really lowers me for example down to 90/52
which I think is too low and I get really
tired and fatigued.
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