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I’ve got the Kardia and had the opposite experience. I was having heart palpitations and was convinced I was dying even though every time I went to the cardiolo

I’ve got the Kardia and had the opposite experience. I was having heart palpitations and was convinced I was dying even though every time I went to the cardiologist they said it was just premature contractions and nothing to worry about. Since it was intermittent, I was convinced they just weren’t capturing the afib while it was happening. The doctor recommended I get the kardia. After a few weeks of compulsively checking the kardia every time I had a palpitations it kept saying over and over again ‘normal’. I even captured a few that had visible skipped beats and sent them in to their technicians and they said ‘pvcs’, the same thing the cardiologist told me. After a month or so, I finally convinced myself I wasn’t dying and the pvcs slowed down to the point where I barely noticed them. Turns out that anxiety about heart palpitations causes heart palpitations which is sort of fucked if you think about it. I basically quit caffeine, started exercising more and now I just get pvcs for a few minutes every few weeks or so instead of for hours every few days. So yeah, if you have any anxiety about heart stuff at all, I recommend getting the new watch.

BenjiWiebe 8y ago
I've had PVC's too. Getting enough sleep is what takes care of mine. When I get overtired they start to come back.
- rootusrootus 8y ago
  That's happened to me, too. Worst episode I ever had was in India earlier this year, while dealing with jet lag and a significant case of gastrointestinal poisoning, my PVCs stepped up to once every two-three beats. For a short time, they spiraled into some form of SVT (not formally diagnosed as this was before I started carrying an EKG on me) that resulted in visible chest movement (as in you could stand in front of me and watch my chest shaking) and a 240 bpm reading on my Apple Watch. Good times. Between being absolutely run-over-by-train tired and having (likely) electrolyte imbalances due to the impossibly large amount of liquid going in one end and out the other, my heart was not at all pleased. Now that I'm back on my routine schedule, I find that everything is mostly okay if I get a full night's sleep and take my meds. Even with the meds, though, if I get woken up by the kids or something and get a half-night of sleep, the PVCs ramp up quite a bit. As does the temptation to find some caffeine, which would be completely counterproductive. Sorry for the wall of text.

BenjiWiebe 8y ago

I've had PVC's too. Getting enough sleep is what takes care of mine. When I get overtired they start to come back.

rootusrootus 8y ago
That's happened to me, too. Worst episode I ever had was in India earlier this year, while dealing with jet lag and a significant case of gastrointestinal poisoning, my PVCs stepped up to once every two-three beats. For a short time, they spiraled into some form of SVT (not formally diagnosed as this was before I started carrying an EKG on me) that resulted in visible chest movement (as in you could stand in front of me and watch my chest shaking) and a 240 bpm reading on my Apple Watch. Good times. Between being absolutely run-over-by-train tired and having (likely) electrolyte imbalances due to the impossibly large amount of liquid going in one end and out the other, my heart was not at all pleased. Now that I'm back on my routine schedule, I find that everything is mostly okay if I get a full night's sleep and take my meds. Even with the meds, though, if I get woken up by the kids or something and get a half-night of sleep, the PVCs ramp up quite a bit. As does the temptation to find some caffeine, which would be completely counterproductive. Sorry for the wall of text.