HELP - Ectopics undetected on 24/7 recorder????

[Pedro1996]

Hi guys I’ve had three instances of SVT over 250 beats which sadly weren’t caught in time every time I went to hospital for it Since 2018. The ectopic heartbeats and SVT (especially the former) have always been prevalent in my family but not in the abnormal way it seems to happen to me.

I have his feeling of electricity or pinched nerve under my mouth palette and throat when aggravated by lots of cold or hot temperatures, and it kicks off my ectopics.

But since a whole year with the 24/7 loop revealer device recorder I’ve had so many of those skipping and quivering sensations and STILL they’ve told me that all year with all of my reported sensations the device hasn’t captured ANYTHING (only ever ONCE when they said I had something called Extra-cellular super ventricular ectopics) and then they said “single ectopic skips” don’t get detected on the device...WHAT KIND OF DEVICE DOESNT DETECT THESE??? This is exactly what has been tormenting my life when they constantly happen in select days and yet they found nothing in the recorder all year. I’m so tired I feel like I’m going crazy or it’s all in my head 😭😭😭

[Hidden]

Hello Pedro and welcome to the forum. Have you considered getting a Kardia device as this would enable you to take an ECG at anytime, anywhere. Many here have one and the reports they produce are accepted by most medics. Try Googling to find out more........I don’t think the Kardia will report ectopics as ectopics, but I think they will show as “unclassified”. Hopefully, others here may comment on that......

[Pedro1996 in reply to Hidden]

The thing is I’ve got a 24/7 recorder that’s inside my chest for the next three years to track these heart beats and the sudden flutters I get are impossible to capture when I used to have the Kardia device

[Hidden in reply to Pedro1996]

OK....I tried, hope it gets resolved soon, good luck.....

[Jalia]

Pedro, as indicated by Flapjack I would recommend the Kardia device. I've had one for several years and have captured rates over 240bpm which proves , if nothing else, that I'm not imagining things! 😃 Sometimes I go straight into AF and other times an Unclassified message appears

[Finvola]

Hello Pedro and welcome to our forum. I'm not sure what kind of device tracking the electrical activity of your heart wouldn't be able to detect ectopics or out-of-place beats.

The Kardia device will catch ectopics, both ventricular and atrial but the user (you) has to be able to recognise them on the trace. You will see normal sinus rhythm, then an early beat followed by a pause. You can also feel ectopics in your pulse which is quicker to do. By the way, if there are not too many ectopics coming close together, the Kardia may report normal sinus rhythm otherwise you may get unclassified.

Ectopics are horrible but harmless and there are breathing exercises which help to control them. Use the search box at the top for previous threads on ectopics and breathing.

Quivering or wobbling sensations may not show up if they are not electrically caused - I find I can get rid of a short wobble by slow controlled breathing.