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by lacey 2643 days ago
For what it’s worth I was told at one point that PVCs are the leading indicator for sudden cardiac death, so it may have been worthwhile to get checked out either way.
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Citation needed.

Most people have dozens of PVCs every day.

Dozens != 20k. At a normal heart rate of 60 bpm, that's 1/4 beats in a day. And that's only an average. You might be getting strings of consecutive PVCs, which has some risk of sudden cardiac death.
One day, I got one out of four PVCs, regular as clockwork. That was... rather alarming. I knew what they were, but that was a ton more than I was used to. Yeah, I went to the ER for that...
What was the end result? Did they go away?
They went away that day after a few hours. They went away in general when I quit taking Claritin.