"I did have an episode of atrial fun, while hospitalized and on telemetry. I recently wore a monitor for 10ndays. I could feel heart Palos and heart struggling but it did not show up on mon8tor."
This exact same thing happened to me in 2012! Many years prior I could feel palps and feel my heart "struggling". I wore a monitor once or twice. Nothing! Even though I could feel it.
In about 2005 I visited ER for severe heart palps. My first heart cath and later treadmill. Nothing! Which is good. The heart palps have continued. I have made several trips to ER and all ecg's normal. I have had multiple full heart workups. A total of 4 heart cath. More tread mills, two or three chemical induced tread mills, many CT scans, and most recently went through all this 6 months ago and again wore a monitor. All this time my heart struggles.
It gets so bad I become winded. It happens when I roll over in bed, or stretch early a.m.
I came to the conclusion the heart IS a muscle. A rather large muscle, that oxygenates the body and I can't breathe because my heart is struggling and there isn't enough oxygen going to the lungs. This happens continually.
I have had cardiologists from the Midwest to WA. All heart monitors were different. The last one I placed patches as directed, it fed to a cell phone device, we were connected, and whenever I felt an event, it was uploaded.
Funny thing is, I have a portable BP monitor that also shows heart palps. This has been approved by my docs, and calibrated to their machines. It will show irregular heart beat. So I guess those monitors are looking for electrical signals, which would be a fib. I suppose because it showed up a few times, (once last Fall causing another ER trip, and a couple of times in the past 10 yrs), that is seldom the problem. It is fatigue..