AF and chest heart strap

donaldj7070
donaldj7070 Posts: 2 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi. I suffer from Atrial Fibrillation and take daily meds for it. I’ve recently starting wearing a chest heart monitor and I think my heart is a lot more ‘fluttery’ while I wear it - like the HRM is having a negative effect on my heart rhythm. I don’t even know if that’s possible - so, has anyone else experienced any similar issues?
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Cheers.

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Your Dr or the nurse should be able to answer that without a visit.

    Considering I was allowed to wear my chest strap during a treadmill test where they also had me hooked up to all their normal sensors and were not concerned with any false readings caused by my strap outputting something - I think the claims made by the HRM's that they are read only, not inputting any signal - is true.
  • donaldj7070
    donaldj7070 Posts: 2 Member
    Cheers, makes sense. I was thinking it was probably just me being extra sensitive about the heart.
  • Jthanmyfitnesspal
    Jthanmyfitnesspal Posts: 3,808 Member
    Thinking there is something wrong with your heart is really creepy. I have a problem with chest pain that has been checked out pretty thoroughly and is diagnosed as some sort of muscle issue. (It sometimes hurts when I breathe, somewhere around shoulder-blade level to one side. It flares up, hurts for a few days, then goes away.)

    Anyway, putting a chest strap on adds to the sense of constriction sometimes, and I have to get used to it. Are you wearing a consumer strap or a medically-issued strap?

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