I’m new here, had my results from a 24hr heart monitor last week

[Ljy2018]

So, I had a 24 hr heart monitor in February after having chest pains during pleurisy June last year. I had my results last week and the doctor told me that the left side of my heart was working fine but the right side was swollen, I was asked if I had swollen ankles, chest pains etc which I hadn’t. He now wants to put me on another 24hr monitor to see if the swelling has gone down.

I’ve been worried ever since, should I be?

[jimmyq]

First of all, stop worrying. It never solved anything. Look at it this way: it has been caught before it became too serious. I'm sure that if your case was urgent they would have kept you in hospital.

[Sillyfroggy]

I’m genuinely puzzled how a 24-hr holter test can show a heart is swollen? It’s basically a 24-hr ecg and measures how electricity moves through your heart. Have you googled to see what this test can and can’t show? Or how has he come to the conclusion your heart is swollen? I would imagine scans/X-rays etc would be how that were found?

[Clerkenweller]

I’d ask how the ecg shows a swollen heart.

[Ljy2018]

Well an ecg picks up the hearts rhythm so I’m guessing this is the way they have discovered this, in terms of scans and X-rays...I had an ultrasound last August which came back all clear. I do have an ectopic heartbeat weather this has something to with it and maybe it’s been misunderstood by the doctor, what also concerns me is when my bp was taken before I saw my doctor it was 147/70, I have been monitoring this and it hasn’t dropped anywhere bellow 120 since, I have read that a low pulse rate (which mine is between 50-60 at resting) and high bp isn’t a good mix