This is a video talking about what tests I needed when I was being ‘worked up’ for Atrial Fibrillation.
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David, when you started to go down this process of being investigated for atrial fibrillation, what were the sort of tests you needed to go through? Obviously ECG, I had an ECG, I had an echocardiogram, they obviously monitored blood pressure and didn't do much about my heart rate which was resting averaging about 80 but I knew that for me that was high because my previous resting heart rate was 50 at best which I think is a familial thing. Was it obvious at the outset that atrial fibrillation was causing your symptoms? I suppose once I was told yes but I never like many people with ATIP was I was conscious of my heart either beating too loudly or having arrhythmia that I was conscious of. I think the only time I noticed it, and only when I was alert, was if I took my own blood pressure. The heart rate beat was not like a metronome. You could hear it go dum-dum-da-dum. And once I knew that, I knew that, but now I've got a handheld device which takes an ECG on my smartphone and I can find out if I'm still in sinus rhythm or not.
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