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PVCs 101

Heart disease or scarring that interferes with the heart's normal electrical impulses can cause PVCs. Certain medications, alcohol, stress, exercise, caffeine or low blood oxygen, which is caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or pneumonia, can also trigger them.

Lasix stopped my PVCs. It’s been day 3 in NSR. My o2 while breathing improved and I use oxygen along with my cpap now. I check my o2 during the day and my o2 is creeping up. Tomorrow my portable o2 small oxygen concentrator arrives so I won’t be out of breath walking as much. It’s 100% covered by my insurance along with a huge bulky o2 concentrator for sleep.

I was successful with Tenormin for 6 weeks until there was a shortage of distilled water so I stopped using my cpap. My lungs started to filled up and I got swollen legs and my PVCs returned.

Worth mentioning if anyone here has PVCs- they should take a sleep study test for nocturnal hypoxia to see if it helps their PVCs.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/2025 10:22PM by susan.d.

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I was successful with Tenormin for 6 weeks until there was a shortage of distilled water so I stopped using my cpap..

I have a distiller at home that does ~ 1 gallon at a time. Would one of these be available where you are? Mine takes about 3.5 hours to make the 1 gallon.

Distilled water is not required for the CPAP machine's humidifier. If you can drink the local tapwater, it is safe to use. Just rinse the reservoir out each day to clear out concentrated salts and lime. Refill with tap water. If you are worried about dissolved chlorine, let a soup bowl of it stand open over night and use that the next evening. If you are worried about pathogens or other contaminants, the method of humification is via evaporation which produces a clear and clean molecule or vapor that cannot contain what is in the water, dissolved or otherwise.

My daughter in law suggested using the water accumulation from a clothes dryer tank drawer(for those of you who don’t vent the steam outside). It doesn’t work for a heat pump model. She thinks the water is distilled from the steam.

If it is condensed water from a heating source that removes water, yes, it is distilled. However, it may not be sterile...is quite certainly NOT sterile since the container is not hermetically sealed after an auto-clave or similar sterilizing method between 'handling' with one's hands. Not that it matters, practically, especially for the purposes you'd intend and for the reasons I spelled out earlier: evaporated water contains no pathogens unless mixed with the aerosols from someone ill sneezing. That's pretty darned hard to do inside of a PAP machine's reservoir.

I suppose one can boil the tank water.

There are two reasons they want you to use distilled water. The first is obviously because it's clean water, nearly sterile. The bigger reason is because using tap water will leave deposits in the CPAP machine that will build up and plug it up. Boiling would solve the first problem but not the second unless you made yourself a small still. Not hard to make using common materials. Find a cheap tea kettle, get a few feet of copper line, a fitting that can attach the copper line to a hole drilled in the kettle, and you've got yourself a still.

I found a store that hides their distilled water in their warehouse. I bought 4 gallons. They don’t have a drop on the shelves but they are stockpiling. I lowered my humidity on my Cpap from 4 to 1. I save a tank a night. I use up a couple tablespoons a night instead. I removed the water tank off my oxygen humidifier tank. I save 1/2c a week.


I’m on lasix and am dry as a bone. I wonder if my green and orange phlegm is from drying out my lungs? Last week my lungs were full of liquid so I figured why use a humidifier to add liquid? My pulmonologist disagrees that everyone needs humidity but glooming disagrees-humidity is optional.

Phlegm is definitely not a reason to decrease humidity. Quite the opposite. It's thick and sticky and needs humidity to thin out so your lungs can expel it.

Green and orange phlegm is not normal. Both suggest a respiratory infection.

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Phlegm is definitely not a reason to decrease humidity. Quite the opposite. It's thick and sticky and needs humidity to thin out so your lungs can expel it.

Green and orange phlegm is not normal. Both suggest a respiratory infection.

My labs show I have an infection.

IDK, I stopped the humidity and I instantly resumed NSR. I hate to jinx my NSR by adding humidity back. It was a rough patch with PVCS, especially my current EP pushing amio since I refused an ablation.

I have been asking my GP for a chest xray or antibiotics for the green or orange phlegm but he refused. I’m not running a fever. My husband, who uses no oxygen nor Cpap has my cough. Maybe it’s the heat being on all day.

My cardiologist only wanted me on lasix until my legs are no longer swollen. They are not swollen.. he wants me to cut down on hydration to 4-5 cups a day. My GP is insisting I resume 40mg lasix for a month and drink 8 hours. Conflicting advice.