Night time device for AF

[heartbeat4]

Does anyone know if there is a device that can you can buy that will detect AF while your asleep

[daved525]

QardioCore promises that capability with a chest strap & 2 lead ekg, but FDA still hasn’t approved in US. Shipping to Europe. Don’t know about UK. I use an Apple Watch for that purpose. Not an ekg, but records HR all night, & if my HR goes up while I sleep I know it’s afib.

[heartbeat4 in reply to daved525]

Thank you will look at that.

[Hidden]

I use at a Fitbit Blaze. When I have an episode in the night it is unable to monitor my sleep pattern correctly and shows me how many episodes I have a week.

[momist in reply to Hidden]

Interesting Hylda. I have the Charge2. On the few occasions it has failed to record my sleep properly, I have been blaming the somewhat loose fit on my wrist and therefore loss of HR readings. I can't KNOW if it was due to AF. On the one occasion I have had AF while wearing it (awake), it showed a highish HR, but not the actual rate recorded by my Kardia. Not enough evidence there to say I was in AF, if I had not been awake.

[secondtry]

Thanks, I was about to post the same question

[Flyer2820]

Hi heartbeat 4

I use the miband 2 wrist watch which tells me my heartbeat (bpm) when pressed to read. It is a quarter of the price of the Fitbit and equally as good. I believe there is another version of it that will read your bpm constantly at close intervals. I don't know the price of it but going off the miband2 it won't break the bank and would be worth the money. Look it up on eBay or Amazon. It will give you a readout on your Android phone and will show the constant changes in bpm as af.

Hope this helps.

Regards Flyer.

[Hidden in reply to Flyer2820]

The Mi Band 2 will also record your pulse constantly if you get one of the third party apps from the Google store (Notify and Fitness for Mi, or Mi Band Master are both very good)

[heartbeat4 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you.

[Flyer2820 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks Mikee69

Apparently the more expensive mi band is a smart watch by Xiaomi and is about £40 to £50.

Regards Flyer.

[Hidden in reply to Flyer2820]

I have a mi band 2, it cost me £20 and will monitor constant heart rate.

The new xiaomi band will take a single lead ECG , but the software is only in Chinese at the moment.

I'll be buying one when they fix that 😀

[heartbeat4 in reply to Hidden]

Hi Mikee can you post to let us know when the xiaomi band becomes available in English

[Buffafly in reply to Flyer2820]

Thanks to you and Hidden for info, got my MI2 yesterday and enjoying playing! I have to use it with an iPhone so need to explore apps but happy so far except my night time visit to the loo was obviously counted as sleep walking 🌃😴

[Flyer2820 in reply to Buffafly]

Hello once more Buffafly,

Glad to hear you have bought the xiaomi Miband 2. You won't regret it and you have spent very little money on it. If I go to the loo in the night mine records me as awake for that time. Also if you go into settings you can have date and time, steps, distance, calories, bpm and battery life on. Happy fiddling.

Regards Flyer.

[JonathanPittsCrick]

Just to turn around your question – does it really matter if you get AF while you are asleep at night?

If it doesn't wake you up and has reverted to normal by the time you get up, it is causing very little if any harm to your heart and has almost no risk of causing a blood clot.

[benmaise in reply to JonathanPittsCrick]

I was just thinking the same.

[heartbeat4]

Thank you so much for your reply the reason I asked is most of the time I feel exhausted I have sleep apnea and I have been told that is very well controlled in fact I have now been told I can stop using the machine. I have tried everything to make things better having lost three stone in the last year I don't drink or use caffeine the only medication I take is Apixaban my heart is good apart from the AF I am just trying to find out why I feel exhausted and thought it might be night time AF I guess its back to the drawing board.

[Hidden in reply to heartbeat4]

Are you on any medication?

Bisoprolol for example wipes a lot of people out.

[CDreamer in reply to heartbeat4]

If not the any meds - could be that your quality of sleep is still poor for other reasons. There are a few apps which monitor sleep quality. I find if my sleep quality dips below 85% of 5-6 hours of undisturbed sleep - I am exhausted and much more symptomatic. Get 7-8 hours and I am on top form.

I saw a sleep psychologist which really helped my sleep quality - just a few sessions which sorted out unhelpful patterns of behaviour.

If all that is good then I would look for any other possible conditions.

[Hidden]

Could you have thyroid problems. They exhaust you even after a good nights sleep and are often linked to Afib.

Di

[Icenae]

My fitbit alta HR. Records my heart so I can tell when in af. Costs £120 ish. But also counts steps and monitors sleep. It pairs with my phone and ipad.

[heartbeat4]

Thank you very much you have all been very helpfull

[Flyer2820]

Hi again heartbeat 4

Just to let you know that the Xiaomi mi band2 does everything that the Fitbit does at a quarter of the price. It's also fantastic on the battery which will last about 3 weeks or more between charges.

Regards Flyer.

[daved525]

A friend just told me about recent results from the Apple Heart Study, a collaboration with UCSF to use the Apple Watch to detect afib. This article states 97% accuracy in detecting afib. Here's a link: macrumors.com/2017/05/11/ap...

[heartbeat4 in reply to daved525]

Thank you will take a look at that

[li17 in reply to daved525]

It’s not accurate at all. I’ve been in that study for couple months and had two afib episodes, it didn’t catch them and needless to say any further follow up from Apple or UCSF. The problem is the watch only monitor your heartbeat occasionally, it’s not continuously monitoring. So there’s very high chance it will miss it unless your episodes are long enough.

[daved525 in reply to li17]

I’ve been in the study too, from the beginning. Luckily no episodes since then (after 3 ablations), so can’t speak firsthand to effectiveness. Do you have SmartRhythm monitoring turned on in the Kardia app? It monitors continuously in that mode. I have mine on now & I can see the graph it’s generating with a data point every minute or so.

[li17 in reply to daved525]

Yes I have that smart rhythm turned on, for a few days. But now I don’t turn it on that much. As all my episodes happened when I was sleeping, I’m trying not to pay too much attention to my heart during the day to get some sort of normal life back. Monitoring is one thing, but getting back to life is more important.