Re: How do you deal with ectopics without panicking?
My fear of them stopped when I started to accept that I wasn't going to die because of them, and the longer ive had them the less fear I have, because they started to happen in my 20s and i'll be 64 in August, so obviously after over 40 years of them happening at some point every day for all of those years, it's not really surprising that ive accepted them and live with them....to say happily would be stretching it, but they don't bother me nowadays and I just let my heart do its thing. I do take a beta blocker called Bisoprolol though, which has lessened the impact of them so obviously this also helps, but losing the fear of them helps the most.
It's just a shame that some of us are more sensitive to changes in our breathing which can alter heart rhythm as with different movements, standing, sitting, running etc, or with extreme heat or cold or adrenaline rushes etc, or when the vagus nerve is compressed if we bend down is another example. The list of reasons can be long and each of us has our own triggers, but the important thing to remember always is that ectopics that have been diagnosed as benign are exactly that, and when you accept that, the fear will slip away and you'll cope better when they happen.
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Without fear there cannot be courage - Christopher Paolini