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What would you do if you were invisible for 24 hours?

I have a holter monitor for 24 hours, what can I do to make sure my sympoms happen during these 24 hours?

  • My doctor is trying to record an arrhythmia, but obviously I can't garauntee it will happen during this 24 hr. period. This may sound crazy, but is there something I can do to induce it (other than drugs/alcohol!)

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    I understand your frustration. Doing a lot of medical tests and coming up with nothing sucks, but inducing an arrhythmia is not a good solution. They are pretty unpredictable anyways. However, if you are set on the idea, some fairly safe things that can change your heart rhythm are caffeine, exercise, extreme emotions etc. If you doctor ever told you not to have caffeine or not to exercise, then DO NOT DO THEM even if you at your wits end. Just suck it up and take it like a man :)

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No. Don't even try.

maxmom

Ok..maybe a better answer....if you're concerned that 24 hours is not going to be definitive, ask him to leave it on 3 days...that's not unusual. Also, don't stop your routine...go about life as usual...get out..do things..go eat...if you normally skip breakfast...do...if you normally have 3 breakfast jacks and all the sides...do....let that thing pick up what's going on when you're relaxing and under day to day stress. You're cardiac issues may be related to something else other than cardiac, and you won't know unless you put it to the test..but don't alter anything to induce something that's not going to be accurate....that leads to causing problems from treating the wrong conditions. Be straightforward with it, and treat(or just monitor) the things that are really wrong.

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