Those heart monitor apps - well check out my weird reading

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I've been having palpitations forever and out of curiosity thought I'd download the heart thing on my phone. It doesn't look quite right to me. Does anyone have any knowledge of ecg readings that can help? Maybe it is normal I don't know (but I always thought the arrows were supposed to point upwards!)

Sorry I am not sure about the reading but would love to know what app it was and how it works!

What treatment R you getting for your palpitations?

No treatment at all it's been put down to anxiety. I've had a few quick ecg's and they never pick up anything so they're not worried. When I was being monitored in hospital for whooping cough, my pulse was all over the place. They mentioned it but didn't seem bothered either. It wasn't a steady rhythm, even I could tell that.
The monitor is on the App Store I just searched 'heart monitor' !

ECG is a more fine time & beat resolution measurement, I don't think you should look at ECGs to compare.

That isn't an ECG. As far as I can tell it's a graph of your heart rate.

I have to agree with you there. This is very basic and has no detail to it at all

Which one is it?:) so many have come up!

It's called instant heart rate - it was the top one for me. I'm wishing I hadn't downloaded it now hope you get on better than me!

It is not clear from the picture that the graph means anything? Just one reading given? But obv I can't see the rest of the app, which you can. I guess it depends whether your pulse is going higher in response to activity/anxiety/excitement and lower in response to rest, which would be normal, or just randomly changing? Or if it is changing significantly in response to standing up, which would put you at risk of falling over.

I was just sitting down, relaxed. I don't think I have particularly high anxiety either so for the doctor to put it down to anxiety annoys me a bit. It went down then evened out to normal after I took that screenshot.

That defiantly isnt an ecg reading.

I doubt very much if an ecg would be possible using a phone app as an ecg measures electrical impulses at and across various parts of the heart by measuring the potential difference across leads attatched to at least three pisitions on the body. Unless of course they have invented a way to do this recently.

That is quite a high resting heart rate though.

It's not an ecg reading. You can't tell anything meaningful from the trace I'm afraid. If you're having symptoms you need to see your GP, not stress yourself out using free apps! To be fair it's quite a good app for tracking your resting heart rate but the actual morphology of the trace means nothing. Here's mine from just now.

Honestly don't panic! I have done exactly the same as you! Mine was all over the show even watching eastenders I did get a bit OCD about checking and deleted it!

It is not the same as an ecg and yours simply just shows a lot of interference.

Thanks for your answers. I do feel better about it now and have deleted the app! Why is my heart rate so high though? Does it depend on how fit you are? I'm a bit fat but reasonably fit or so I thought.