What To Wear For A Heart Rate Monitor Test - PoTS Outfit Check

I’ve recently had a 72 hour heart rate monitor test to get a baseline before starting medication to help with my PoTS (and be able to weight bear more, to build up my bone density).
As with any medical test, clothing choice can make the process easier, or harder. I’ve also got my hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome to consider, as certain clothes are more difficult to remove and can risk injury (and I always feel I have to be quick in medical settings, which further increases the chance of pulling, twinging or subluxating something).
So, I chose:
- jeggings to be comfy and warm
- A nice, more relaxed fit top to go over the electrode stickers and wires more easily
- A loose fit cardigan, to be easy to shrug off and get back on
And it was a success! The looser fit of my top meant that I could lift it up for the stickers to be applied, which was much easier than trying to get my top off.
I was expecting to have a holster to keep the recorder box in, but the 72 hour heart rate monitor at my GP surgery is much more streamline. There was a small remote that the wires were attached to. This was secured on one of the stickers with a popper. Unfortunately, the wires came detached from the recorder 4 times, so I’m not sure how much data we’ll have to work with.
What do you wear to medical appointments?
Top: Matalan (old)
Jeggings: Next
Cardigan: Quiz Clothing (old - previous PR product)
[Video description: Tania, a white woman with we hair, sits in her wheelchair. She is wearing glasses with dark green lenses, a yellow floral t-shirt, grey cardigan and dark blue jeggings. Tania talked to the camera, then appears with her hair tied to the side. She continued to talk to the camera, then clicks her fingers and medical sticky pads with wires attached appear, peaking over the neckline of her top.]