[ctcsmith]

So I've had my 30 day holter on for about 2 days now.. and my heart maybe acted up twice.. I guess it just kinda proves it's a lot of anxiety... I was wondering if any knew if I could request to only wear it for 15 days? With being 35 weeks pregnant it's kinda a HUGE pain in the ass to wear! lol! And I'm sure the day that is comes off my heart will act heart! grrr!!

[DaniRae]

I think we all get that with the monitors, the heart never acts up the way it normally does. My electrophysiologist let me get off mine after 3 weeks because it showed single beat PVCs and that was all we wanted to figure out

[dr461]

Originally Posted by ctcsmith

So I've had my 30 day holter on for about 2 days now.. and my heart maybe acted up twice.. I guess it just kinda proves it's a lot of anxiety... I was wondering if any knew if I could request to only wear it for 15 days? With being 35 weeks pregnant it's kinda a HUGE pain in the ass to wear! lol! And I'm sure the day that is comes off my heart will act heart! grrr!!

Yep, it kinda points in that direction, big time---stress. When does one ever have symptoms when they go to the doctor?

[CMoore416]

I was in ER the night before my 24 hr monitor and was having PVCs every 3rd beat for hours. Day of Monitor pretty much nothing. Even walked a mile.

[dr461]

Originally Posted by CMoore416

I was in ER the night before my 24 hr monitor and was having PVCs every 3rd beat for hours. Day of Monitor pretty much nothing. Even walked a mile.

Yeah, when I had my holter, I parked in the farthest lot from the hospital, ran a mile, and ran up the stairs on my way to return it. Not a single PVC!

[Katie]

My palpitations slowed down after I got off the holter! It made me so stressed out!

[CMoore416]

Lol I climbed up 4 flights of stairs to return my Holter too!! Lol all 22 beats in 24 hours.....

[Amanda]

Omg this is so funny because had my holter on for 3 days after an SVT of 220 bpm.. For 3 days everything was perfect. The next week I was back in the hospital with another attack. Gotta love it.

[dr461]

Originally Posted by Amanda

Omg this is so funny because had my holter on for 3 days after an SVT of 220 bpm.. For 3 days everything was perfect. The next week I was back in the hospital with another attack. Gotta love it.

The one thing that can be said is that they are predictably unpredictable. Stress seems to me the major common denominator, but other than that, go figure!

[bypeep]

Yes, the monitors can be cumbersome. My first experience with a 6-week monitor ended up with my skin literally sloughing off and bleeding. The second to last day of it I got married and my skin was so damaged that I had to have help peeling my wedding dress off because my skin had weeped and seeped so badly on the left side.

But... had I not worn it the last two days they never would have caught my NSVT and would have passed me off as a stress case once again.

You came to this board very, very upset about your palpitations. It seems to me that you truly wanted to know what was going on. If you now request to have the monitoring time shortened by 1/2, it would be counterproductive to finding out those answers, right?

So you have to make a choice - deal with a little gadget that is really no more than an I-pod type that attaches to you, or forever worry that these palps are something more serious.