How to play the 48 hour heart monitor test?

[heartgoneweird]

In the last couple of years my heart has started responding to things differently. Supplements that I used to be able to take without issue now cause palpitations and medications that used to calm me and make me feel relaxed now also give me palpitations. I bought a Kardia app/device a few months ago and my baseline heart rate is normal and hasn't changed, from what I can tell, compared to how it was when I had a 24 hour heart monitor a couple of years ago. I've now persuaded them to give me a 48 hour monitor which I'm in the middle of but I'm not sure what to do to demonstrate what's going on. I've done today as a base day, not taking anything that causes palpitations but tomorrow I'm going to take a few things to show them what happens. But do I just take one or two things and let it go up a little bit higher than I should or do I go all out and take everything and have it go crazy?! I don't want to do permanent damage to my heart but I want them to actually respond by helping me and not just dismissing me. How do I do tomorrow?

Obviously I can cut out some things that give me palpitations but when it's most things I worry that one day I will need a med that I won't be able to take. And I need to take supplements due to a condition that causes nutritional deficiencies. It's not really an option to just stop taking everything.

What would you normally take if you weren’t wearing the monitor?

It's important you carry on as normal. You do sound very anxious though. Cardiology is incredibly complex and you have to trust the medical team.

I'm not anxious but I don't particularly trust any medical team - I've been let down over and over and over again and had pretty awful healthcare throughout my life. I don't usually take anything that causes palpitations these days because then I can't sleep but I would choose to start taking some of these things again regularly if I could stop the palpitation response.

Just not sure if i should take a bit of everything that causes it or just a few things.

The team haven't given me any advice beyond how to wear the monitor. I didn't get to speak to the specialist before doing the test.

Supplements and medications … were these proscribed by a doctor or are they things that are avoided by most people as of dubious benefits?

Umm….why the heck are you taking ‘things’ that presumably aren’t being prescribed by a medical professional, in order to try and convince them that you have something wrong?
The idea of a monitor is that you carry on as normal for the 24 or 48 hours, not try buggering it up in order to gain what?
If you know what gives you palpitations then the first thing to do is stop taking them ffs!
Weird behaviour.

I have to take supplements because I have malnutrition caused by a medical condition that cannot be diagnosed yet because there are no markers (the malnutrition does show up on private tests though - the NHS won't do the tests in the first place because the condition doesn't exist in their eyes because it doesn't show up on tests). I have been advised to take vitamins and supplements by multiple (very highly recommended) private health care professionals including nurses, doctors and nutritionists and that was great to begin with - saw some benefits to improving my nutrition, but then the supplements started causing palpitations which I need to solve as I need to keep taking them. This was after a period of many surgeries and treatments that I think changed something about how the meds and supplements were working.

I was also prescribed one medication (for ADHD) by a private doctor and that was life changing for my sleep as it calmed me down, until my body started responding differently to it and now it causes palpitations. Lots changed in the time between it working and causing issues so I'm trying to get my body back to the point at which it worked as now it doesn't I've had to start taking other things which aren't so great to be on.

What supplements were you taking?