I get pvc's frequently (see my many other posts on this) -- they are the kind where i feel a thud or quiver in my lower left abdomen. If i feel my pulse when one occurs (finger on wrist) i feel the skipped beat.

That said there are other times, only once in a while and usually short in duration where i can't really feel any arythima and no skipped beats taking my pulse, but i have a sort of slight "heaviness" in my left-center chest area. it seems to occur more often when i get up quickly and head somewhere. sometimes it lasts just a few minutes, sometimes the feeling lasts maybe 10-15 minutes. Exercise makes it always go away immediately. It's a very hard to describe dull-heaviness. I have no shortness of breath or chest pains or what not.

Could this be a different arythmia occuring that i can't feel, some time of more rapid one such that i'm not getting enough blood pumping during that time?

Anyone had similiar experiences?

(FYI i had a heart attack - clot in the LAD, 1 stent put in May 2006. next cardiologist appt in 3 weeks. 41 yrs old, no typical risk factors, echo EF 60%, nuclear stress test EF 44% [had lots of pvc's during this test])

Ljwhorfin, it would make me wonder if you dont feel this way because you blood pressure drops a little low. Have you ever taken it when this happens?? When you say it happens when you stand up and exercise makes it go away, makes me think that if you raise your blood pressure, by exercising, that it goes away????? Just a thought. Sometimes your heart rate will go up some if you blood pressure drops when you stand up too fast, its a compensatory thing. Which is maybe why you dont have that feeling of a skipped beat. If you sit down as this happens does it go away or get better???

good theory --- and even more of a reason i should get a home blood pressure checker. as for standing up -- it's more if i stand up then sit down -- it happens more on the sit down like my BP is dropping again. Also if i get really interested in something (excited, moving around more and such) it goes away or stops happening -- again my BP is probably higher during those times.

I'm on a coreg and lisinprol so my BP gets low at times as my BP w/o drugs
before was in the healthy low range.

does alcohol raise BP any typically... i never happens if i drink any amount of alcohol at all.

thanks for your thoughts!!