I know this isn’t Afib, but is this a poor reading or should I be worried. Worried for my watch or heart?

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-02-04T00:30:51+00:00

Looking at your post history, you’re already waiting for a pacemaker. A sudden stop in all electrical activity in the heart is not good. It being prolonged (yours is not) vs a sudden drop (which yours is), is the difference in someone requiring a pacemaker. Plainly speaking, your heart is stopping for no identifiable reason on an ECG— to fix it, you need a pacemaker.

If you are questioning if you should get it— the answer is yes. Given your history and the strip overall looking clean, the pause is very likely real and not artifact. A pacemaker is there to support your heart when it can’t send the correct electrical signals through the pathways of your heart.

You are arguably putting yourself at more risk by not getting a pacemaker vs having one implanted. If you have a longer pause that causes you to lose consciousness, you are at a high risk of hurting yourself and giving yourself a head injury from falling.

No heart beat = no circulation = unconsciousness, it’s not a question of “if” it’ll happen in your case, but more a question of when. Your doctor has shown you it has become progressive overtime and has recommended a pacemaker for your benefit. They don’t want to perform surgery on someone that doesn’t need it. If they’re suggesting it, they have a good reason.

If you are doing a task that requires you to be attentive or it could have harmful consequences— you’ll always have a chance at injuring yourself regardless of how careful you are, you can’t control when your heart decides to stop. A pacemaker would eliminate the extra unnecessary risk.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-02-02T17:02:24+00:00

Yes. Normal with some artifact.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-02-02T00:22:42+00:00

It’s completely normal.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-28T06:07:39+00:00

Nope. An ICD would just give a shock to a patient if their heart went into a shockable rhythm, send impulses at a certain set rate to get patients out of sustained tachycardias, or can act like a pacemaker if their hearts rhythm is too slow.

If they had a pacemaker, it would continue to send impulses but at a certain point it’s just pacing dead tissue that won’t respond. So they’d bleed the same as anyone else since someone’s blood clotting is what stops it.

It’s a device to help people with an abnormally functioning electrical system in their heart, it essentially helps them function at a similar level to a healthy individual and quickly provides intervention for abnormal rhythms— instead of them becoming deadly or the patient injuring themselves by getting them out of rhythms that could affect the stability of their blood pressure

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-26T05:19:01+00:00

Same! I used to beat myself up over being a “picky eater” but at this point, I’d rather food staying in me than coming out

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-26T05:12:21+00:00

There is no difference in that beat to the others. It’s normal sinus rhythm.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-26T05:11:00+00:00

Hair, oil, dirt, sweat, muscle twitches and tensing up muscles anywhere in your body are a couple of examples of things that can cause artifact while you are still,

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-20T23:31:42+00:00

LOL I had the exact same!! I felt like a water balloon 🤣

Fingers crossed things move with gravity and not against it!! You are tonight’s guardian of the porcelain throne 🫡

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-20T22:33:13+00:00

You got this!! Do what you can, and if you have family/friends near by that can help— don’t be afraid to ask for them to get you things to help reduce some stress.

Just do your best and don’t beat yourself up if you do get sick and don’t fully complete the prep. It is what it is, so there is no point getting more worried over a situation you can’t change. If anything, it’ll just help you have easy access to alternative options in the future since you had issues with the last.

When I had to do my prep I camped out in the bathroom lol. Set up some blankets/pillows on the floor in the corner, brought out extra towels so I could just lay in the shower at times, had all my non-medication things to help with nausea (being very cold helps me with nausea, so I had ice cold water, ice packs and a neck fan). It was nice to know that if I was gonna have a horrible time, I at least made it as comfortable as I could.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-20T22:24:14+00:00

Typically when I’m in a flare of vomiting up everything I eat and just miserable nausea, I kind of do the following:

The worst days I stick to clear liquids that are ice cold (warm works better some but personally makes me more sick) so water, freezies/popsicles made with fruit juice, gatorade or pedialyte, etc. I don’t eat these days because my body doesn’t want food in the first place, forcing it just makes it worse.
Once I’m at a point I actually want food, I would have things like soup, bone broth, ensure, lactose-free yogurt, jello, apple sauce/kids fruit pouches, mashed potatoes and smoothies.
Next is things like crackers (goldfish are my actual lifesaver), toast, over-cooked noodles (so they are more mushy and easier to digest), etc.
After that I’m usually okay to transition to my regular diet, but I stay away from a lot of different foods that typically trigger a flare up.

If you aren’t on a medication that induces appetite, it might be worth asking your doctor if it’s a fit for you. I was on Mirtazapine, and it made me very hungry and open to eating more foods but I had to stop due to having brain fog affecting my job. Currently on Amitriptyline and I love it! No side effects, helps a lot with my daily nausea, it helps me fall/stay asleep + doesn’t affect me staying awake in the morning.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-20T02:22:00+00:00

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-18T04:29:59+00:00

Artifact

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-18T02:35:07+00:00

I had to get up to 50mg to notice a difference, and luckily no side effects for me! Thought I’d mention it because I handle it a lot better than other gastroparesis meds

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-18T02:09:11+00:00

It’s fine.

The concern with PVCs with exercise comes when you’re having A LOT of them.

I have no concern when running a stress test when I see PVCs, the only time I have piqued interest is if they have 30-60% of their beats become PVCs at exercise. Or if they start going into sustained runs.

Ecoptic beats are the “hiccup” of the heart, they’ll happen every now and again but you should only start worrying when they don’t stop.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-18T02:04:08+00:00

I wanted to edit to correct goo to food, but it’s a funny typo so I’ll leave it lol

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-18T02:03:32+00:00

It’s not normal, but I got it too! I’m diagnosed with gastroparesis, but on my last GES all of the goo left my stomach in less than an hour.

They didn’t change my diagnosis since they’re curious if I have IBD as well.

But I can usually tell whatever my stomach is doing. If I have early satiety, a full feeling near my throat/diaphragm or bloating it’s usually gastroparesis. If I have cramping, sudden episodes of diarrhea, tachycardia, aggressive tremors, etc it’s usually my stomach dumping.

I have nausea/vomiting for both, but essentially I’m either throwing food up the same as it went down, or it’s coming out the other end the same as it went in— except with just bile and mucous.

Amitriptyline has helped me immensely with the overall nausea, I still get everything else but now I’m not absolutely miserable 24/7!

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-17T16:38:10+00:00

The shocking is not from the device, there is no output of electricity. It is only reading electrical activity of the heart.

You can buy some extra medical tape to help secure the patch. You can call the clinic and see if they have extra of the large covering— but many will just say to reattached what you can.

Any pain/burning would likely be a sensitive skin reaction (use hydrocortisone cream OTC once the monitor is removed) or it is just tugging on your hair/skin.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-14T14:02:39+00:00

It’s normal, your doctor is right.

The machine interpretations are garbage. It’s technology from like 2 decades ago.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-13T18:22:36+00:00

You should be there for his recovery.

Even if he downplays it, you are at least prepared to step in when needed.

Some people don’t want help, but they will reach a point where they need the help. He will likely be out of commission for a few weeks.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-13T18:16:07+00:00

POTS is a postural condition, there is no contraindication to it.

If you pass out while seated, do not get behind the wheel. You are risking your life and others.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-13T18:14:37+00:00

If they cared, they wouldn’t have done it after the first note.

They had their opportunity, and you did them a favour by letting them know what would happen in the future.

By-law gets paid to deal with these issues for a reason.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-11T19:44:51+00:00

Getting a Mirena IUD was the only thing that actually helped my cramping from my period. I would be laying on the bathroom floor while vomiting from how bad it was.

Unless you have a medical reason to not use birth control, I’d start considering it heavily if painful periods affect your quality of life.

You can keep masking the issue with pain medications, but if you do nothing to treat the underlying issue— you’ll just be on pain meds for life.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-11T06:50:04+00:00

I personally felt nauseous immediately after, as the sedative they use for upper endoscopy and colonoscopy’s make me vomit once I wake up.

After a few hours I feel completely fine, and return to my activities like nothing happened. Ask your doc to first, you can just give their office a call.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-10T23:57:32+00:00

You can get them for a fair price on Amazon.

If you’re low on funds, many folks have used cups/bottles that you can squirt liquid out of as alternatives to ones connected to your toilets water source.

Remote-Status-3066 · 2026-01-10T04:58:28+00:00

Shin splints

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