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Please provide a tip on how to ask your doctor about abnormal heart rhythm.
12 doctors weighed in across 9 answers
Ignore: If you experience abnormal rhythms at night that wake you from sleep, request an event monitor.
Answered 8/6/2014
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Ignore: Give your doctor all details, including symptoms, pattern, what makes it start and stop.
Answered 4/24/2015
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Ignore: Rhythm disorder can come from the heart upper or lower chambers. Upper chambers are more benign.
Answered 5/25/2015
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Ignore: Many abnormal heart rhythms can be cured by dr destroying part of its electrical pathway, ablation.
Answered 7/3/2014
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Ignore: Tapping out an example of your heart rhythm may be easier than trying to explain it in words.
Answered 7/18/2014
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Ignore: Count your pulse. Pay attention: How fast? Regular or irregular? Dizzy? Breathless? How often?
Answered 5/29/2015
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Ignore: Ask your doctor if you are appropriate for surgical intervention.
Answered 5/30/2015
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Ignore: Describe what brings on the symptoms, when you usually get it, and what other symptoms come with it.
Answered 8/13/2015
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Ignore: Ask your doctor if dealing with Atrial Fib or Flutter and if at risk of forming hesrt clot.
Answered 9/14/2015
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