I just removed it. Let me know if it returns.
Getting anything to stick to your chest for 2 weeks, assuming relatively normal level of activity, ain’t easy. Zio is meant to stay on the entire time with no extra or replacement adhesive, no changing of batteries, etc. So relatively harsh exfoliating is helpful for optimal adhesion.
The MCOT comes with something like Beck described. It seems like I got the Rolls Royce of heart monitors. It’s tiny and unobtrusive. It attaches much like yours in the video. I’m supposed to take it off about once every 5 days and replace the patch. I think that’s the perfet amount of time to keep it from itching.
I had to wear a heart monitor for two days and there was nothing like this prep. A bit of alcohol rub at most. So the length of time seems to be critical for the prep work.
What hurt most came later. I needed a heart catheterization (a word my spellcheck doesn’t know). In one, a catheter is threaded up an artery, preferably one in the wrist but in some cases in the groin. When I was prepped, a nurse used an electric razor to shave a path across my groin just in case. My wrist worked fine and so did my heart. But I went home with a 12 inch bloody razor burn across my groin that was the worst razor burn I have ever had. “We’ve been getting in new razors and some of them don’t work as well as others” is basically what was said when I limped out. Yeah, tell me about it.
This really should be in a Rod Serling voice:
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