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Thread: Home ECG Machine?

  1. #11
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    It would make me worse, if its possible:(
    I bought a blood pressure machine and i check it constantly and worry everytime it goes up or down

    I wouldn't do it

  2. #12
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    lol i bought a bp machine to was the worse thing i coulda done! so i would say no! spes if your having a panic and getting palpertations or ectopics it would make you worse
    although i have thought about getting one my self as my heart seems to be my main anxiety even though ive had all the tests!
    and yeah what is STV? or should i not ask? lol might think i have it if ya tell me!
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  3. #13
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    But why would you want to?

    I bought a Omron b/p monitor to keep an eye on my grown up children's blood pressure (their dad died of a heart attack when he was young)

    I perhaps take it every few months but I know what to look for.

  4. #14
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    SVT = supraventricular tachycardia

    It's a particular type of tachycardia (fast heartbeat). It's pretty technical, probably useful for cardiologists but a bit impenetrable for everyone else.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprave...ar_tachycardia

    Which is also the case, I believe, with home ECG machines. You really have to know your stuff for them to be of any use at all. And you'd worry yourself silly trying to interpret the results.

    I was tempted to get a home blood pressure kit as I have consistently highish readings at the doctor's. But I'm always really nervous at the time so that's probably all it is. I'd just get obsessive about it if I got one.

  5. #15
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    I dont even google so the chance of me buying any machine is zero and anyone else that buys one is just asking for trouble.
    Where do you stop?

    Bp testers
    eye testers
    cat scans

    Please get a life and spend the money on a holiday.

    If that sounds cruel so be it but it will only make a person worse.


    spend the money on cbt, hypnotherapy or something that will help
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  6. #16
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    I think buying this machine would make your anxiety (and anybody's) worse. There is no need to have your heart electrical impulses checked continually unless in the context of critical/acute care.

  7. #17
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    I think if i bought one of these id become a basket case....and same goes for the bp machine...a definite no for me
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    A great big frothing tankard full of NO.

    You would do nothing but check and re-check yourself then analyse every bit of data until you're convinced you've got a heart defect. If you're worried about your heart, see a doctor. Don't try to treat yourself unless you've been to uni for seven years and got a PhD in looking at ECG readouts.
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    Re: Home ECG Machine?

    Actually they make them just for anxious people...lol

    Really its funny I was on a doctors board the other day and saw a portable one but I think its really for people that come home from the hospital and need montoring. It wouldn't help me to have one I would be attached to it night and day.. :-)))))
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