Yesterday I had occasion to check my blood pressure as I was feeling a bit nauseous and felt my blood pressure might be high. It was high albeit only marginally.
I thought it worth pointing out to those who have an Omron monitor that an ectopic is registering as an irregular heartbeat. Whilst strictly speaking this is correct it is not the same as AF which would also be registered as an irregular heartbeat.
Ectopics (extra or missed heartbeats) occur in all of us although more often felt by AF sufferers and are in the main benign and are normally nothing to worry about.
Pete
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As an update to Pottypete’s post, having 40,000 ectopics a day, my Omron monitor would not work at all. It simply reported a fault: ‘Clothing interfering with cuff’. Even when there is no clothing on the arm. This is where the ectopics are producing an arrhythmia out of the parameters of the monitor.
It was a lot, Pete, that’s for sure, but a ‘P’ wave categorised it as Bigeminy Ectopics, which after 12-months has now transformed into constant A. Fib., without a ’P’ wave. However, the Omron wouldn’t work at all with the ectopics, which were producing an horrendous erratic ECG trace on my Kardia, but the Omron works just fine now since the transformation into constant A. Fib., which incidentally now produces a steady if not irregular, irregular ECG trace.
Here’s hoping an imminent Cardioversion will have a positive effect.
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76 years old with A F
apixaban and hematuria 
shortness of breath
3% Afib burden and proposed medication
