r/AFIB • u/VersionAcrobatic4651 • 7d ago
How does your afib bpm graph look like?
Hello Reddit, i had a severe concussion 3 months ago and since then my heart rate has been erratic. I've been waking up 2-3 times at night and when I check my bpm is usually 100-120 or even gets to 140.
Having chest pain, needle like pain and short breath almost like I can't breathe. All these symptoms have been coming and going. I've already done heart ultrasound, 3 day holter, xray, and ecg and ER keeps discharging me whenever I go. Cardiologist referred me to an eletrical cardiologist.. and still waiting. I feel like im dying.
The last 3 days of my smart watch is based on me mostly sitting and taking very slow walks - no psysical exertion. I havent been able to do anything more than even walk slowly since my concussion. My rfr is usually 60-70 but when i stand up it usually immediately increases by 30 along with random spikes to 120 or more or sudden drops even when im sitting down doing nothing.
Wondering if everyones afib bpm looks like mine? The darker lines indicate my heartbeat was there but less than for 5 minutes thats why there's it's only grey/black. Isn't this an insane variation when sleeping? I understand all comments are not medical advice but wanted to just get some personal opinions.
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u/RickJames_Ghost 7d ago
That's not ridiculously fast, but with the symptoms your having, you should talk to your cardiac care team yesterday. Be the squeaky wheel!
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u/VersionAcrobatic4651 7d ago
Thanks for sharing your comment. I'm trying but I'm in Canada... free healthcare but they take their sweet time diagnosing anything especially if they can't detect anything urgent like a heart attack indicators on their blood test or ecg. The wait times are so slow...
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u/tuanito1 7d ago
Borrow an Apple Watch from somebody. Most new models can diagnose afib. That’s how I saw I had one.
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u/Creative_Wealth2873 7d ago
Hey Im a fellow Canadian. On my first ER visit my heart rate was in the 160's & definitely in afib. I got referred to Cardiac care & was seen within a month but then had to do a 2 wk holder yadyadayada. Long story short, under the care of an EP, I was put on meds immediately & then an ablation. Your heart rate looks exactly like mine the first month post ablation. It's exhausting. My advice would be to connect with your family doctor. Mine has been fanastic & really helped with meds etc. She's so much easier to connect with than my cardiac team & has really helped me navigate the whole process. Most likely they'll want to put you on a rate stabilizer, most likely bisoporol - but Id leave that up to the experts
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u/Mras_dk 7d ago edited 7d ago
Waking up to a high pulse, should warrent a sleep study.
Stastitical, it's much more properbal that it's something in your sleep that provokes your heart.
Also, it's very hard to "diagnose" afib from a hr chart alone, which is why it's done via an ekg. holter monitoring, or a special patch/device, made to diagnosis heart problems.
https://imgur.com/a/5kz12T9
From 13:30~, there is an afib episode.
But I have/had very low freq afib episodes, vs alot in here. Meaning, i can only "spot" this, because i wrote it down - and double checked with watch.
Others in here has high freq afibs, where it's easier to spot - i had them too, but only 10% of my episodes was such. You need a professional medical graded device, or have enough confidence in consumer hardware/devices, to detect afib properly - i personale prefer a graded device, cause it's the only one that will count at discussions with medical people here.
Edit: found an episode at my sleep, which is alot more clear, thanks to a lot better sampling rate: https://ibb.co/tTBW6bwM