I have a Kardia Device 6 lead, looking for something a little more hardcore, any suggestions?

[Quest4NSR]

Forth Frontier looks good, anyone purchased any real good ones to keep monitoring for 24 hrs or more? Be good to hear your experiences on these

[Hidden]

Not sure you are going to appreciate this but I promise you I mean well. When I first joined this forum back in 2014, gizmos were few and far between. I remember I raised a post about blood pressure monitors and I will never forget the advice I was given by a then, highly respected volunteer (not BobD although he too, is highly respected). He told me to lock the bloody monitor in the shed at the end of the garden and get my wife to hide the key somewhere where I would never find it. It was one of the best bits of advice I was ever given but I did have a tendency to be obsessive. I have had a single lead Kardia for a while and that has been invaluable in the past. However, arguably, gizmos can cause more problems than they help solve……😉

[BobD Volunteer]

Why not just get on wth your life? AF may be in your life but don't let it be all of your life. Once you have a diagnosis and a treatment plan the last thing you need is to focus on it. You will know soon enough if or when it happens.

[pottypete1]

I have both a Kardia 6 lead device and an Omron blood pressure monitor.

I don’t use them regularly and would only do so if I thought I was particularly bad and might need to give doctors information should I need to contact them.

Hidden and BobD as always offer sage advice.

Pete

[Dodie117]

So that’s a no then!!🤣. Seriously, I too have 6L but not obsessive. Sits in the drawer most of the time but good to know it’s there. I like to know what’s happening if odd beats etc.

good luck ☘️

[Ppiman]

I have an Apple Watch and more recently bought a Kardia 6L. I think they are invaluable as does the cardiologist I see occasionally. It was from them that he conformed my new AF and set me on new treatment.

If you are likely to become obsessive and over-anxious over their use, then that is for you to decide and it might well be a bad move. I'm not like that, or, at least it doesn't seem to affect me, so, as I say, find them useful. Knowledge is power, as they say - especially in these covid times when medical care is so reduced.

Steve

[Physalis]

Don't listen to them. If you think it would be useful to you, get it. It's horses for courses. I got a Polar heart monitor and it was pretty much useless as far as I was concerned. It tracked my heart rate over a day or so, caught all the AFib. The trouble was my Afib wasn't particularly spectacular. All it showed was my heart rate bobbing along at an average of 140 for a day or so then it abruptly dropped down. That did actually answer one question I had which was 'does it slow down gradually or not'.

My wrist monitor was useless, didn't catch a lot of the high heart rates.

The Apple watch which I have had for over two years was what I really needed. I could easily monitor when my AFib started and finished. Without it, I wouldn't have had my ablation,

If you want to monitor what your heart is doing while you exercise then this may suit you. This is a review of it

youtube.com/watch?v=O9cM3_s...(Not working as expected?)

youtube.com/watch?v=WMdUIRI...(Not working as expected?)

One for you exercise freaks. There seem to be quite a few on here! Not me though. No way!

[Quest4NSR]

Thanks for all your advice, I use my Kardia to capture the amount of instances I get, so in a 2 hour episode I capture the start and the time I went back into NSR, might just stick with the Kardia as it serves my purpose, thank you all for your feedback

Here's to peace in our ❤ for Xmas New Year

[Bennera513]

I get both sides of this story. I'm working on leaving behind my HR monitors while walking (post ablation). It is freeing. Me and my psychologist recognized finally that one of my anxiety habit loops is to seek reassurance but in the end that is exactly what kept the anxiety going....it kept my fear in play and validated my focus on the issue, rather than moving on. That being said, I do often record my rate, so if I do have an event, I've got the 'tape'. I've learned I get much better and quicker treatment when I've got the facts to back it up....But as Bob said, once the treatment plan is in play.....why bother! I used to dream of the day there'd be something like the Zio patch that was consumer friendly and inexpensive. Now I see that's probably not a good thing, at least in my situation.