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Did you know that the average heart beats 100,000 times a day? Millions of people live with heart rhythm problems (heart arrhythmias) which occur when the electrical impulses that coordinate heartbeats don't work properly. Let's connect with each other; we can share stories and learn about coping with the challenges, and living well with abnormal heart rhythms. I invite you to follow the group. Simply click the +FOLLOW icon on the group landing page.
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I have hypothyroid I take synthroid I also have has arrithmas for several years . My heart missed a beat and then went very fat to catch up.I have hospilzed with suspected TIA 3 times and have has EKG and several heart test which were all normal. I have had several holter tests none of them showed A/FIB
I wear a Fitbit watch which detected A/FIB AT 5am, It wakened me up. My cardiologist put me Eliquis 5mg twice daily and Bisoprolol 5 MG Valsartan 20 MG l was able to trace the A/Fib associated mainly with drinking wine and caffeine .I stopped drinking wine ,all caffeine tea & chocolate all spiced foods also ginger garlic & Tumirin and all hot peppers. According to my watch I don’t appear to have any more episodes of A/FIB Since. I have severe high spikes associated with walking at the mall, making dinner. My HR Goes spikes to over 125 when I am walking or grocery shopping. Is this unusual?
@jovi45 Those spikes are natural in all likelihood. As you stand from sitting, your heart must work harder to get blood from further below your heart back up to your lungs. You will spike just standing from seated. Then, if you begin to move around, maybe use your arms also, there is more 'work' being done, and your heart rate will climb further. This is both desirable and normal....it helps you to function those ways. What would worry you is if your 'spike' goes past 135 or so, maybe over 145, just walking casually or even when seated and calm. There is only a possibly disordered heart that would need a rise in HR to the 140's and higher to let you walk to the kitchen. Or a heart in arrhythmia, such as in the case of POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), or maybe in atrial fibrillation (AF). I don't see how you can have an arrhythmia with an HR around 125 when you are moving about. I could be wrong, and I'm also not medically trained. The thing to do, when you have symptoms, or see that your HR is above 125 when just doing normal stuff, is to take a Kardia or Fitbit reading, and then look at its graphical representation, the one that looks like a real ECG. Either device 'should' be able to upload the file to an app where you can see what the squiggles look like. Any arrhythmia will either be too fast, or there will be a nasty mess to look at, including no P wave and the highest peaks don't have the same distance...they're spaced out randomly. That would be AF.
The Holter can only record what really happens when it is on you recording. If you take off the leads and turn it in, and driving home you have a short run of AF, that's a miss. Your Fitbit may have been wrong, but it may have been right. You should have a record still on it of that detection. See if you can find it, upload it to the app, and look at it. Show it to your doctor.