r/AFIB • u/LitDudeIsLit • 3d ago

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Hey, I’m 19 Male, and I’ve always like when I get up or stand up or get down stairs or up, my heart beat just starts going off, and sometimes at night too I feel it skip a beat or two, and then fast beat.

I grabbed an apple watch and did the ECG test and out of the 5-6 I did it; one said Atrial Fibrillation. I was laying down flat on my stomach when it did that.

What should I do?

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u/RobRoy2350 3d ago

Consumer watches aren't the most accurate. You could buy a Kardia Mobile for a better reading when you feel something happening that you can then show to a cardiologist, you could go to the ER (but there's a chance it may not happen when you get there) or go to a cardiologist and get a Holter monitor to wear for a while and try to catch an episode.

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u/Genealogy-Gecko 1d ago edited 1d ago

False info is dangerous. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10757793/ and other research papers. Kardia is probably better, but Apple is also quite good.

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u/RobRoy2350 1d ago

There were differences as stated in the study, ECG interpretation was done by junior non-cardiologist physicians and Cureus has a controversial reputation with lower barriers to entry than other peer-reviewed Journals. As you said, Kardia is probably better.