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CRANKY40

FairyPrincessk wrote: »

I'm also feeling quite guilty. After almost 50 hours wearing the heart monitor I've taken it off. The itching from the electrodes was almost unbearable and I have big welt/hive things now.

Well done you. I lasted just over 24 hours and looked like I'd had a bullseye burnt into my skin. They gave me a hand held thing instead as I already had the ones least likely to cause a reaction and even though I managed to record my skipped heartbeats the results came back as "normal". Normal for what is the question I'm building up to when I can be bothered.

ivyleaf

CRANKY I had to do a 24-hour monitoring a few years ago. I was very unimpressed - I was supposed to make a note on a "diary sheet" every time I had palpitations and for how long, but you can't necessarily do that if you're in the middle of other stuff, or going along in a bus etc.
In the end it took 7 weeks to get the result back (I had to ring the company myself to point out that it was 4 weeks overdue, as the surgery was so busy they really didn't have time), and it came back normal as yours did. I'm not at all sure they sent the right report.

Softstuff

Yikes to all these stories. It occurs to me to wonder what these folk are up to if they take so little pride in doing their job, helping folk and getting decent test results. Hope you get somewhere Fairyprincess.

At the same time, it seems to me, allergies to these kind of things aren't really as uncommon as those of us who are allergic are made to feel!

I got a flu jab today. Then zumba'd. Perhaps not greatly sensible, but I'm fine and to be frank, the flu jab this morning had been so painless, it wasn't until I began zumba'ing that I remembered I'd had it .

Good news for me today, instead of 2 days work I have 4 this week, which is great because thanks to a public holiday next week I have no work at all. No work = no pay for me.

FairyPrincessk

Well, I'm back home with new electrodes. No idea if these will cause a reaction but they are much smaller, so the bullseye will be...smaller? I'm reassured that I'm not the only one that has had this. In all likelihood what I have is 'normal' and this is mainly to make sure. I have the skipped beats and sometimes what feels like a racing/pounding heart but I understand both happen to healthy people. It doesn't feel very healthy when it happens though! Thank you though, your stories help. My mind tends to go from 'small little odd thing' to 'full on panic' very quickly and hearing the rest of your stories helps put it all in perspective.

Minus 2? :eek: I'll knit faster Mar.

LameWolf

FairyPrincessk wrote: »

just insisting now showers until I'd had five events or been six days!

Ye gods and little fishes - did they honestly expect you to go six days with no shower?? :eek:
I do hope the new electrodes will be ok for you; it's such a palaver to get tests done, and it seems to me that so many of the staff are very unsympathetic to human suffering.

Some time back I made the mistake of admitting to the GP that I had frequent palpitations and got very breathless; she sent me for an ECG which was administered by a very ....er... "no-nonsense", to put it kindly, nurse, who actually threw me into a full-on panic attack due to her attaching the electrodes to me.
I have a real phobia about physical contact with strangers, and I was in a right old state. So now I tend to keep schtumm about weird symptoms and just blame my lupus for everything. :cool:

FairyPrincessk

LameWolf wrote: »

she sent me for an ECG which was administered by a very ....er... "no-nonsense", to put it kindly, nurse, who actually threw me into a full-on panic attack due to her attaching the electrodes to me.

I'm sorry, it sounds like a traumatic experience and unnecessarily so. I've met some wonderful health professionals at all levels on the NHS and I've also met some who do baffling things. I do my best to be sympathetic and be a good patient, but sometimes with limited success. I know resources are stretched and the people who work for the NHS are also human...but that doesn't make the experience any easier.

And, yes, they did insist I'd need to go six days without showering. I managed to wash my hair over the bath, bathe my lower half and sponge off the top with the monitor wrapped in cling film (Hester, it isn't nearly as exciting as it sounds). Fortunately I only need one more event and the allergic reaction gave me a chance for a 'proper' shower halfway through. Honestly, not bathing is quite stressful for me as its one of the best ways I relax

Softstuff

That sounds terrible Lamewolf, sorry you had to go through that.

Fairyprincess, hope these electrodes go better for you this time. Though I do wish I didn't now have an image of you wrapped in cling film and stood in the shower :rotfl:

I'm up early. What's been happening to me is that I wake at 4.30 or 5.30 feeling a little stiff but perfectly reasonable. On previous days I've gone back to sleep until my normal up time of 6.30. The problem with this is, that small portion of sleep, according to my tracker is very unsettled and could well be sleep apnea, so when I do wake up at 6.30 I feel like warmed over poop. My idea is just to get up when I feel good (5.30 today) and hopefully avoid the negative sleep. We go to bed and get up much earlier in Aus incidentally than most folk I know in England. And so far, this morning, I feel better.

spirit

FairyPrincessk wrote: »

Well, I'm back home with new electrodes. No idea if these will cause a reaction but they are much smaller, so the bullseye will be...smaller? I'm reassured that I'm not the only one that has had this. In all likelihood what I have is 'normal' and this is mainly to make sure. I have the skipped beats and sometimes what feels like a racing/pounding heart but I understand both happen to healthy people. It doesn't feel very healthy when it happens though! Thank you though, your stories help. My mind tends to go from 'small little odd thing' to 'full on panic' very quickly and hearing the rest of your stories helps put it all in perspective.

Minus 2? :eek: I'll knit faster Mar.

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I too am having palpitations. I've had the blood tests to rule things out, two ecg,s now a chest X-Ray and all come back normal. I'm waiting for an appt to get the 24 your monitoring thing.

Then I spoke to my sister yesterday. Seemingly she has the same thing, has had the 24 your monitor and all come back normal.

So I rang my GP yesterday to tell her this. She said it's quite common in ladies of a certain age so is more likely coincidence that sister has it too.
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I've still got to do the monitor thing and if mine comes back normal too, they'll likely prescribe beta blockers to calm it down.

So I sympathise with everyone else who has this. It's scary at times isn't it. Much of the time I feel like I'm on a very wibbly boat!

CRANKY40

Is anyone else with palpitations hypermobile by any chance? I am so it's part of normal for me I suppose. It happens when I lie a certain way and occasionally if I eat something that I'm allergic to. I wanted to know if it was getting worse and if exercise was safe. As the results said normal I've carried on as if it was. I've started the couch to 5k running thing and so far I seem to have survived.

mardatha

Palpitations can be low B12.
Softstuff I find the same- the RV wakes me at 7 o'clock with tea and a pill. I'm supposed to lie in bed for 30-40 mins to give the pill time to work, but I find if I go back to sleep then I wake up like the living dead.So whenever possible I drag my wee a$$ our of bed just before 8am and that works better.
Another gorgeous looking morning here with bright sun - but the cars and grass are pure white and the temp was 1C earlier.