Hey Reddit!,
I’ve always had these “weird” feeling heartbeats that would often take my breathe away. I’ve been to doctors and cardiologists and they never happen (of course) when they do tests like EKGs and doctors always say I’m perfectly fine (even did a echocardiogram).
I finally was feeling them and I think I was able to capture it on my Apple Watch.
Is this what a PVC looks like? Again feel they uncomfortable and makes me short of breath when it happens.
I will definitely be showing it to my doctor as well.
It's possible, but very unlikely. If I'm monitoring my (admittedly very ill patients) I don't think much of isolated PVCs until I start to get more than 5-10 per minute. Even then, they aren't much to get excited about until they get strung together, are associated with hemodynamic issues, or start increasing (ie, my patient has 2-3/minute and a couple hours later 10/minute).
I would treat them as a general sign of cardiac irritability, but if you're having a hard time catching them on your watch they're not frequent enough to be terribly concerning unless you're feeling symptoms with them like dizziness/lightheadedness.