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'Normal' skipped heartbeats: is there such a thing?
It's been a hot minute since I've shown my face ...
It's not that my heart rhythm issues have suddenly disappeared, rather that I got used to them. However, recently I experienced a dramatic increase in the skipped heartbeats so many of us dread, so I decided it might be high time to try another 24-hour monitor on for size. I was duly monitored, and lucky for me (I know it's not always the case!) the monitor recorded the exact symptoms I was hoping to analyse. Half-dreading the call from my doctor that I was convinced would report the worst, I felt the weight of anticlimax when the diagnosis came as 'even during the symptoms you reported, the heart was beating in a normal rhythm.'
In short: how is this possible? Are not skipped heartbeats, such as the monitor recorded and I reported having experienced over the course of that day, by definition 'abnormal?'
Don't get me wrong: it is a relief to know that my arrhythmia is most likely not going to kill me. It's just difficult not to believe that something must be wrong, even benignly so ...
Has anyone else received a similar medical result?
It's not that my heart rhythm issues have suddenly disappeared, rather that I got used to them. However, recently I experienced a dramatic increase in the skipped heartbeats so many of us dread, so I decided it might be high time to try another 24-hour monitor on for size. I was duly monitored, and lucky for me (I know it's not always the case!) the monitor recorded the exact symptoms I was hoping to analyse. Half-dreading the call from my doctor that I was convinced would report the worst, I felt the weight of anticlimax when the diagnosis came as 'even during the symptoms you reported, the heart was beating in a normal rhythm.'
In short: how is this possible? Are not skipped heartbeats, such as the monitor recorded and I reported having experienced over the course of that day, by definition 'abnormal?'
Don't get me wrong: it is a relief to know that my arrhythmia is most likely not going to kill me. It's just difficult not to believe that something must be wrong, even benignly so ...
Has anyone else received a similar medical result?
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