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Can anyone help me understand this halter monitor stuff??? 🙏
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If you copy then paste your holter results into an AI it can explain what the readings mean after it explains it is not a doctor. That can help you understand the results before you meet with your cardiologist. If you don't have one your PCP will probably send you to one. Best of luck. I have events that even a 2 week holder hasn't caught. The best I can do is a Kardia ECG, which misdiagnosed everything as AFIB. I'm seeing an electrophysiologist next. I'm assuming that is in the cards for you. Good luck!
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@chuckb You wore a Holter monitor for a period, and it did its job. It recorded your electrical output on those leads attached to you. Any heart speed higher than 100 BPM is considered to be in the range called 'tachycardia'. Your Holter recorded short runs of tachycardia and much longer runs, some lasting perhaps several minutes. Those are not necessarily 'dangerous', not for that long. It's when they record tachycardia lasting for several hours that it gets into the 'Okay, we gotta do something...' category. After all, your heart can only beat like it's in a footrace for so long.
But there is also such a thing as the 'burden', which is the total number of fast beats in 24 hours, which will affect your heart in time, and which, if higher than about 3-7%, suggests a faster progression toward 'morbidity', or becoming incapacitated and ultimately dying.
The typical 24 hour heartbeat count for an adult is near 84,000 beats. You have a high number of 'fast beats'....they come much too close together, and their total is 55K. That's a heavy 'burden', and your cardiologist will want you to agree to treatment right away. I would think, anyway. Note that I am not trained in medicine, and have no expert knowledge. I'm just trying to interpret what you posted in your original post and using what little I know to try to situate it for you.