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Sinus Tachycardia and digital bp monitor? please help.

First of all, I just went through an EKG, Echocardiagram, and a Stress test about a little over a month ago. I had to wear a heart monitor for a month also to see if they could catch any rhythm issues that might cause me to have a rapid heartrate at times. I just got those results a little over a week ago. I was told that all of the tests above came back great, and that I had a strong healthy heart. I was also told that I didn't have any problems with the rhythm of my heart, but that I had something called sinus tachycardia where my rhythm is normal but my heart just beats a little faster than normal. My heart doctor said it was not life threatening or anything.

Anyway, I bought a new blood pressure monitor yesterday.. one of those Omron ones that also detects irregular heartbeats. I took a few measurements yesterday and a few today. It detected irregular heartbeat only once for those readings. This brings me to my question...

Can regular sinus tachycardia (my problem described above) cause my bp monitor to register irregular heartbeat?

This is just something else for me to worry and obsess over.. thanks in advance for any help with this question!

Britany
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thanks for the tips. :)
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I agree in general with grendslori, save the "dump" part.  While the BP monitor may not be able to detect irregular HB (I've never seen one myself), it likely does a reasonable job of measuring BP... not that you need to do that often given you didn't mention high BP.  

As the mind can cause the heart to beat irregularly, try not to give your heart too much attention.  That said, the tool I find the most useful for checking my heart rate is a low cost stethoscope I purchased at Walmart, for about $20.  I can hear both the pulse and detect extra/irregular beats by "ear".

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Britany.....dump the BP monitor.....they are not very accurate. If you are going to take your BP, someone needs to do it the old fashion way. We were just writing on the LoneWolf Journal about this very thing. If you have sinus tachycardia, that may register as an irregular pulse rate because it doesn't fit into the'norm' for what the monitor is programed to read. Your heart is just fine, you really don't need to worry about this; especially with all of the testing that you have had done.
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I forgot to mention my bp monitor is an upper arm one.
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