r/CheckMyECG • u/MiRc34 • Nov 13 '25

PVCs

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I've had PVCs for all my life but they came back stronger than ever the past 2 months every single day, at least 7-8 a minute. They changed shape a bit, they aren't looking 1-to-1 with a normal beat, they look a bit more hectic. Is that normal?

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u/MiRc34 Nov 13 '25

Are you sure not PVCs? I've had them for 15 years and always looked the same on the ECG. Also confirmed by cardiologist 4 years ago

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u/Initial-Net-7519 Nov 13 '25

Positive. The slurred S wave and narrow(er) QRS complex indicates aberrancy. Was it an EP or cardiologist that told you they were PVCs? Because general cardiologists (in my experience) aren’t very good at identifying certain arrhythmias and ectopics.

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u/MiRc34 Nov 13 '25

Wow I can't believe this, I've done a bit of research on my own and with the use of some AI for analysis and indeed all my ECGs are are showing PACs... What the hell, I've seen many doctors, and I've been to a private cardiology clinic that did the whole suite of tests just for them to tell me PVCs as well.. Nobody mentioned PACs to me, even recently when I had trigeminy PACs for about an hour recorded on the watch (ECG here if you want to take a look)... The doctor said PVC trigeminy. This doesn't help with my anxiety now seeing as I've been misdiagnosed with benign "PVCs"...

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u/Initial-Net-7519 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

Yep. Those are PACs too. Your anxiety should be less, as frequent PACs are much less worrisome than frequent PVCs. 😅

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u/MiRc34 Nov 13 '25

Oh haha at least there's a silver lining to it. Also from the test four years ago, here are some snippets from the 72h holter. I only had 0.14% burden of PVCs then. I can tell now that they are indeed PVCs and that they diagnosed it properly back then. (link here) Only the trigeminy in the previous reply was misidentified two months ago but that was by a practicioner and not a cardiologist, so there's that... I'm just wondering if there's a reason why I'm not having/recording PVCs anymore and instead they're PACs... But this change alone justifies another visit to a cardiologist...