I went into the er for palpitations, im 27 with pvcs controlled by meds. I sometimes have a palpitation that feels like a sink in under my breast muscle, i always feel a beat but if you look at this http://yfrog.com/1xexp1wsj it will should you what i mean by sink. thats what i saw on the ecg machine at the er, i did end up going home after an hour after everything checked out
this was a drawing i made as an example, i had a normal beat going until i felt that thud or sink and saw what looked like a "sink" in the ecg reading
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Sinking feeling in heart caught on ECG?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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ecg looks like some artifact, or machine problem, the first two complexes i have never seen in text book and with patients, it should have repeated with a good machine.also p wave is absent, anyway it is not a sinking picture, also there is no measurements possible( no graph).
Posted 2 years ago # -
There are 2 things you should know with regards to what you asked:
1) Firstly, the so called 'sinking' on the ECG, is not produced by your heart, but by the AC current interference due to faulty electrical line or due to sudden body movement/tremor while recording the ECG. I think it is AC interference but nothing to do with your heart. What you see at the bottom of the 'drop' is an actual PVC.
2) Secondly, you should know a bit about the 'mechanics' of PVC. Premature Ventricular Contractions are, in fact, a weak beats and it is followed by what is called a compensatory pause. Following that the next beat gets stronger to compensate for the weak PVC. This is what is generally felt as a 'thud' or a 'sink'.
Strangely the AC interference coincided with the PVC. If it occurs every time a PVC occurs, then you can attribute it to a transient muscle tremor/tightening that accompanies the PVC. In any case you need not worry about this and ignore it. Cheers.
Posted 2 years ago #
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