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by Tracey_E - 2022-02-04 08:45:36

PVC's can throw it off a bit but it should never show as low as 30 on a hospital monitor. Did they check your pacer?

Hope you recover from Covid symptoms quickly

by Gemita - 2022-02-04 11:31:36

Fisherguy,

Your pacemaker should not allow your heart rate to drop below your Base Rate of 70 bpm, so if your hospital monitor was “alarming” for both low oxygen and low heart rate, I would have thought your doctors would have checked both while you were in hospital?  I am assuming you were only discharged after all necessary checks had been made?

After Covid and your breathing difficulties, I would expect any arrhythmia to be worse until your symptoms improve.  Did your doctors give you any medication for your PVCs to help settle them?

Very briefly, since we have already covered this extensively in your last post, I do seem to experience pausing and sudden dipping sensations when I get PVCs.  When I try to capture what is happening on my home BP monitor, it can give me a very low "false" pulse reading too, but I have been reassured by my doctors that my pacemaker will not allow a fall below my base rate of 70 bpm, and does indeed correctly detect the inefficient beat of a PVC which is not picked up by my home monitor.  But  I can understand what you are going through.  PVCs make me feel exceedingly uncomfortable as well as breathless.  I hope your breathing + PVCs quickly improve and you can come off oxygen.

Update:  My husband has just completed a pulmonary rehabilitation  course.  If you continue to have breathing difficulties, it might be worth asking your doctors to refer you for further help.  On the course we met a member who was perfectly well until he developed Covid.  He is also now on oxygen, but he found pulmonary rehabilitation immensely helpful. Good luck

PVC

by AgentX86 - 2022-02-04 14:58:01

As others have said, and has been discussed here ad infinitum, OVC certainly can fake out heart rate monitors, though hospital monitors shouldn't be fooled. However, it my be why the nursing staff and doctors weren't overly concerned.  Bigeminal (every other - as in the constellation Gemini) PVCs may drop your apparent heart rate from 70 to 35, or something around there (some PVCs may be picked out or "normal" beats lost). You will almost certainly feel this, though. Because this many beats are only partial, not pumping efficently, your oxygen sat will go down and you'll feel like crap.  BTDT. 

Doctors don't usually get concerned about PVCs unless the ratio of PVCs to normal beats gets quite high (30%).  A string of PVCs or bigimal (or trigiminal) lasting a short while isn't overly concerning but should be reported to your doctors.  I sent remote transmissions to my doctors when it happened to me..I was told not to worry about it but they raised my bottom rate to 80bpm from 70 to override them.  It worked but I've been at 80bpm for four years now.  I may ask to try 70 again but it's not a priority for me.