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They did give me a paper log to track when I feel my heart acting weird, but not to track my activities. Heehee! I can well imagine having to write down “9:35pm - Sex”. I do plan on going to gym today though. Should be quite fun carrying this block around to the different machines.
Interesting...I think I need to see a picture.
I was going to take a picture, but I had several things stacked up at work, especially after spending 2 hours at the doctor’s office.
Get a monitor that skiers/runners/bikers use. The monitor is about thumb sized and justs straps on your chest with one velcro strap. The wireless readout is the size of a wristwatch and it fastens to your wrist. And you can download the data from various events… like those 9:35 pm ones 
Of course, the one you have was free (sorta).
Excuses excuses
Brat.
Dave, true I didn’t have to buy this one, but I don’t get to keep it either. As much money as hospitals make, I would think they could afford the thumb-sized monitors.
Last October I had a holter monitor, similar to what you have. Except mine was the size of a pager and had a belt loop.
Remember to keep track of anything you think you feel. Also the time at the gym.
I have a problem called SVT. It’s where my heart goes way to fast and my body doesn’t get the oxygen it needs. It was kinda funny. I could have a nice cardo workout going just sitting in my chair at work. 
I’ve never heard of that condition, though I have heard of the Ford SVT, which is their super-charged truck. How appropriate. I know my heart tends to go faster than most people’s, I wonder if I have that too… Anyway, thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to log my gym time. Mine’s actually a holter monitor too. Just not the cool kind.
SVT is short for super ventricular tachycardia. Sorry I’m not a Ford truck type of girl. 
The stupie one I had to wear had a little button on it that you were supposed to press in certain moments.
Apparently, winning 1000 at the casino does not count.
Hope everything is okay hon.
Damn that sucks. I had to wear one of those little heart monitors back in December/January. I was having that weird jumpy feeling in my feart, but with some pain. Would you believe they still have not called me back about it? So here I could have a heart problem and wouldn’t know a damned thing.
Hope it all works out for you, and that other than the jumpy heart you’re healthy.
Yeah. I had to wear a crap one like that once. Are you going to Kaiser? ‘Cuz they have the worst crap ever. Everything they have is like 10 years old at least. HATE KAISER. ~deep breaths~
Anyway, I hope it’s nothing. Mine actually turned out to be an allergic reaction to food. Who knew allergies could make your heart race like that?
My heart races like that all the time, but I just figured it was all the exertion from standing or walking or typing too fast.
Frankie, I’m not a truck girl myself, or a Ford anything for that matter.
J, that’s pretty funny. I can imagine the folks who examine these results trying to interpret the activity based on the heart speed and time of day.
Donna, perhaps everything was normal and that’s why you’ve heard nothing?
KG, luckily no, I don’t have Kaiser. I’ve heard nothing but terrible things about them.
Av, it could also be all that porn. 
Ooh - good point. Maybe having the streaming donkeyporn channel on my monitor isn’t the best idea.
But how would donkeylove.com* survive without you?
Not an actual website. And if it is, I don’t know about it! No really, I don’t! Oh shut up.
Suuure - you’re the owner of donkeylove (where burros get some ass), aren’t you?
Shhhh!
Of course, now I wonder what type of search engine queries are going to find you.
Oh, and “perv” as my captcha is awesome.
I had to have the echo cardiogram every few months just to make sure. My heart also “races” and now I have to take meds that I want to get off of someday. I never had to wear a monitor though. Instead the first day I went to get it checked they kept me in the hospital for 24 hrs. I feel fine though.
I hope all is well with you.
Hmm, being stuck on medication is not a way to solve a problem. Western medicine has always been about treating the symptoms and not the cause. Then again, what choice do we have, we’re not doctors. As far as your heart is concerned and the medications they’re making you take, I’d get a second opinion.
That was a second opinion, they both said the same thing. I am determined to get off this medication though. Even if I have to pretend to be pregnant. (one way of getting off it) lol
Do you have to keep a log book of your, um, activities in case you might need to eplain why your heart rate might have jumped at certain times.
Sounds similar to something was happening to me. My doctor chalked it up to heart palpitations caused by pseudofed and coffee. Bad combo.
I hope it’s nothing serious.
zoe | 04.03.2007 | 12:15 PM