Question about A-Fib and HR monitors -
I'm a fully broken heart aging cyclist. I have several heart conditions that could become life threatening.
I am using a Wahoo fitness app and Tickr HR monitor that appears to display "jumps" in my heart rate. Since these HR spikes are not tracking my exertion level I am suspecting that they represent HR arrhythmia - most likely some sort of SVT. Since I don't feel any changes in my chest I assume these signals must be atrial in origin and not the ventricles in spasm.
My question is: Are any of you familiar with this kind of HR monitor activity? Are any of you using wearable EKG regularly? And if you are - is there a relationship between how many P wave signals there are and how the HR monitor counts actual ventricular beats? (QRS cycles)
Thanks - any conjecture welcome - I'm assuming consumer HR monitors count only ventricular depolarization as a heart beat - but I'm just guessing.