can i exercise while wearing a holter monitor?

Answer 1

I work in cardiology and we do all cardiac testing and putting holter monitors on is something we do. We tell our patients to go about there normal activites but not to shower. If they ask about exercise we tell them to go ahead but don't exercise to the point that your sweating excessively because the ECG leads will lose good contact if they get wet.

Answer 2

I wore a holter monitor and kept a notebook. I wrote down every hour, the hours I was awake, what I did that hour. My doctor wanted me to sit and watch a tv program, take a walk, exercise. I rode a stationary bicycle. Then the next day when I went back to the hospital, I gave the doctors the notebook and they compared it with the tape from the monitor. I had an irregular heartbeat, the lower half of the heart would hesitate, then do a sort of hard beat that I could feel in my chest. They put me on Verapamil to regulate the heartbeat. I used to have migraine headaches every day. But with the blood pumping correctly to the brain, oxygen getting to my head, my headaches stopped and I feel great.
Thank Goodness for Holter monitors.
Now that was me, and as all people are different, you should ask your Doctor, what exactly he wishes you to do.

Answer 3

The monitor is simply recording your irregular heart beats, the fact that you have them is important, whatever emotional / physical events you have during the monitoring, you should note,but they may be irrelevant.Most Irregular heart beats are caused by an electrical fault in the electrical pathways that run thru your heart. There can be many causes, you need to keep going to your specialist to get the answer, thousands of books have been written on heart rhythms.Some people need meds, some dont. I have 2 sons who had Heart surgury as babies, they both have the odd funney heart rhythm, both finished High school, both got university degrees, both have great jobs. Dont worry too much, go back to the experts, western countries spend millions of dollars every year on heart research, we truely do know how it all works.

Answer 4

Please call and ask your dr.-I personally don't see a problem with it, as long as you document the activity and the duration of this activity for your dr. You might want to reconsider, or do a light workout, you can't shower while you have it on, and the professional is the one to put it on, and take it off. Take care.

Answer 5

Yes, you can if your cardiologist permits you and he is monitoring you, in person. On the contrary avoid it.

Answer 6

Hi........This is a question you should be asking your doctor.

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Answer 7

personally i dont suggest that ...but actually it depends on the why u put it ..ask ur doctor