holter monitor report

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Hi, if anyone in the group has suffered heart symptoms from their

thyroid disease and is knowledgeable about cardiac terminology, could

you help give me an early preview of what the holter monitor report

below means? To give some background, I had a terrible time when I was

first diagnosed with Hashi's/hypo, a pounding and irregular heartbeat

being my worst symptom -- I didn't know I had Hashi's, I thought I was

going to die. I went into the hospital with low sodium/low potassium

and after I was out and started on thyroid supps, I kept having these

" attacks " that would keep me awake all night running to the bathroom

every 1/2 hour, terribly thirsty and feeling like I was going to have

a heart attack. This report was from that period, when I still having

bad heart symptoms. I remember my heart was POUNDING when this report

was done... just felt like it was beating really hard, not necessarily

fast, but I just felt AWFUL. I wore the monitor for 24 hours... toward

the end I think I took an Ativan and felt better. ANyway, it says:

AVG rate of 69. Max. BPM was 98, min. BPM 45. Wide beats totaled 4

representing <1% of all beats. Isolated early narrow beats totaled 586

representing .7% of all beats.

Interpretation: Sinus rhythm. Multiple APC's. One 1.4 sec. pause

following APC with junctional escape. With sypmtoms of palpitations.

PAC's recorded.

My doc. at the time never even reviewed this report with me.. just

finally referred me to a psychiatrist. I still have heart palpitations

but nothing like what I felt back then... my current endo. wants me to

see a cardiologist and take this report with me so he can explain what

was happening, and if there is anything to address now.

Thanks gang,