Positive pregnancy outcomes?
I’m pregnant with my first living child, totally unplanned, as I am 49 years old.. I had 6 miscarriages in my 20s, where I remember getting some heart palpitations, and I’ve had atrial ectopics here and there through other stressful points of my life, but not like this. Since 18 weeks, I started experiencing a lot of heart palpitations. I went to the doctor, where they took a blood test, scanned my heart with ultrasound and gave me a monitor to wear for a week. It caught ventricular in 3 morphs and atrial ectopics in 2 morphs. Ventricular was at 4% burden with bigemin(???) with rare couple and triple, and atrial at a 6% burden with frequent couple and triple, whatever that all means, as well as runs of both (12 atrial runs lasting 5-32 beats and 4 ventricular runs lasting 5-16 beats). To my surprise, the cardiologists that looked at it (the one that scanned me, and the one who read the holter) seemed completely unbothered by all of this. They said it was benign in my settings, common findings and no need for treatment or further exams for now. They offered some medicine to possibly calm it since I said the feeling bothered me quite a lot, but I opted not as I’m pregnant. They also gave me an iron and potassium supplement, as it was borderline (not low, but low end normal). I am now 24 weeks, and they come and go. Some days are bad, especially if I eat something my stomach does not agree with like sugar, is overworked/tired in the body, feel hot/hot flashes, lay on my left side, if the baby moves too much or if I slouch or make certain movements with my body. When I do yoga or get a massage, it tends to calm them a bit. To be honest I don’t know if pregnancy caused this, or I just didn’t feel it before. I feel my heart more now, due to the extra blood (higher rate, pounding), which makes the arrythmias feel rather intense.
Anyone who have these arrythmias, that went on to have a good pregnancy, delivery and postpartum? I’m not an anxious person, but when they get bad, it’s a really dreadful feeling that does not feel benign at all. I don’t understand.