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Rate Response Turned Off Today

My EP had Rate Response turned off today.  Pacer implanted Nov of 2017.  Right side implant due to mastectomy.  Initially my heart rate spiked whenever I used my right arm.  I could do weights with left arm and no increase.  Right side would spike.  EP tweaked it and it improved some.  Could use arm, but repetitive motion caused it to spike.

Today he suggested turning the rate Response off, so we did.  I’m set at 70 bpm and it showed 68% atr...

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Home monitor and cell phones

Hey, folks. I have a Medtronic home monitor for my nice new PM. Very handy; it downloads nightly. The manual says not to use it within 6 feet of a cell phone. The tech said she'd never heard of that, but hello? there it is in the instructions. My monitor is on the night table right next to my bed; the next closest place is on the edge of the 10 feet of distance they don't want you to exceed. Too many words here: bottom line is my cell phone is my only phone, and I&...

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Chronic irregular hr

I wish I could post a pic, its been a while .I have vaso vagle. With low hr, hence pm, 4 years ago, I have not been the same since implant, I swear its the settings. Hr set at 55 which is good for me. But my hr is all over the place all day since inplant. 60, 115,98,114, 55, ect. This is just walking around house doing normal things .Went to my ep where he said your only using it at night lets just take it out ## and put you on cardizam, well really.  I have a dule lead .because ????? Ca...

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Medtronic Home Monitor

I had my replacement implanted last Friday. I received a call from my Dr’s office telling me my new pacemaker has the ability to use a home monitor for my quarterly interrogations rather than going to my cardiologist office. 

That makes me happy !!  Does anyone else use a Medtronic Home monitor? What’s your opinion? 

 

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New to CRT / Results drastically different

Hello! I had a CRT-D implanted in December. It is my first one. They decided to do the surgery in November and scheduled it for January, but, I got them to do it right before Christmas when a slot opened up, because I maxed my out of pocket (so I didn't have to pay woooohooo). 

In January my Interrogation report read Right <1% paced. Left 100% paced. In March it read Right 32% paced and Left 100% paced. Now, just today it reads Right 76% paced and Left 100% paced.

This...

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All a flutter

I had a pacemaker inserted April 2017.  All seemed to be fine.  Now one year later I am taking little episodes of heart flutters, like my heart is over beating.  I have had it checked by the technicians and they have reduced it to 40 - they said that my normal resting heart rate is probably quite low and that the pacemaker is working too much.  I had this adjustment done about two weeks ago but unfortunately I am still getting the same feelings.....it's a little b...

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My settings

Thanks for the reply, regarding the position, i have been told this by other people ( Heart Physiologists ) who do the tests.

The strange part ( and i cant really go into that ) i never had the symptoms in the first place, 

Regards

 

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Pacing Checks

I can recall going for a pacemaker check years ago, and there was one person doing the test.

for a little while now i see there are two senior heart physiologists doing the test, and aparently it wont be the same two on next visit,  so how long has this been in place Any ideas ?

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Settings

Can anyone answer this, 

My device is Identity ADx DR 5386.

I have two leads originally set to ,mode, DDD, now its set to one lead ( Ventrical ) mode, VVI.

99% sense, <1% VP.

I have heard that the value < is less than symbol,  and the whole number if it can be defined as a number = 000.01  basically nothing, 

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Pacemaker adjustment and impact on blood pressure

My husband had a Biotronik biventricular pacemaker implanted in November 2017. He is 58 and had no previous health or heart issues before having 4 epsiodes of blacking out last Sept - October timeframe, one with a heart monitor where it showed his heart stopped for 12 seconds.  The diagnosis was left bundle branch block, requiring a biventricular pacemaker and he has also had 2 stents put in given blockages found in the circumflex and LAD arteries,post pacemaker surgery. ...

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DDDR vs DDIR Biotronic Eluna 8 -afib

Last Monday I had a pacemaker check up and they saw that I am in afib again as from the beginning of March. A hybrid ablation for afib is what caused me to be in need of the pacemaker in the first place. 

Because the Biotronic was often tracking my afib by pacing in the ventricles for some time before doing a mode switch they decided to go from DDDR to DDIR. 

I feel a little better now, the ‘pounding heart’ in rest has not occured so far and I still seem...

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Heart pausing

Hi.. I recently posted that my heart was pausing again. Had an dual pacemaker fitted 2015 for 2bd degree heart block  I have the medtronic advisa. I started to feel my heart pausing and was able to capture this via my alivecor .. Sent the result of to my cardiologist and he then called me into the pacer clinic  Have been told today that heart is pausing for 3 secs.. They have adjusted the setting so my heart doesn't drop below 60 as it was dropping to 45 bpm . They also said tha...

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Need for rate response

Is there a electrophysiologist cardiologist out there who can explain to me why my heart decided to not pick up as it used to and therefore the rate response had to be turned on?  Had the dual lead PM implanted in Feb. 2017, and this was done a few months ago.  I asked what this meant and was told, "it means it is a good thing you have a pacemaker." All that has done is create anxiety on my part that is causing me to seek some counseling on accepting the situation.  B...

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Pacemakers and active activities and pulse

I havent posted here for a few years as my PM's been pretty stable although it has its quirks.

To my great relief when browsing the posts here I found plenty of people discussing my 2 main issues of the pacemaker pushing my pulse to high when not needed (like when driving on rougher roads) causing pain and discomfort and the pacemaker not pushing my pulse quick enough when needed (sudden activity) causing bad shortness of breath.

The answer always seems to be that you keep twe...

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Visit to pacemaker clinic

Two months since pacemaker fitted, I felt more breathless than normal when walking up hills when playing golf I told the clinic nurse about this.

I was amazed when she told me there was a crystal within the pacemaker that could be activated by her.

The crystal would come into play when my body was exerted and would help with the breathing. I had to swing my arm as it only kicked with active movement meaning it would not activete when say cycling.

I never heard of this o...

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foloow up #1

first appointment in newmarket ont today.  wow busy place for a country boy   said my pacer works fine  only needed 17% of my time!  that sounds like an alful lot seeing how i didnt have it a week ago when my heart paused.   still very lightheaded  gotta try and putter around garage tommorow get back to working man mode!

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Pacemaker setting recommendations

Hi! I'm a pacemaker newbie. I'm 41 and had my pacemaker implanted 2 weeks ago for Mobitz type 2; I really haven't had many symptoms but this is the second EP to tell me I needed one and I finally decided to get the darn thing. I have passed completely out about 5 total times in my life, usually in reaction to pain or to eating bulky food. I've worn monitors several times, and each time they caught blocks lasting 2-4 seconds--maybe about 3-4x/week, so not super long. The fainti...

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Merlin not working

JUST GOT A LETTER MY MERLIN MONITOR DIDNT SEND IN THE MONTHLY TRANSMISSION. I TRIED UNPLUGING THE MONITOR BUT IT STUCK ON THE  TRANSMISSION LIGHT AND NOT SENDING.ANY HELP?

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Stress test

Hellinall. Haven't been on here in a while. I'm having my first stress test done wednWedne w/o contrast. I had a ST Jude dual lead pacer put in October 9 2017 for 2nd degree heart block and 34 years old. No medical history besides the pacer and spinal stenosis. Since I had the pacer put in every now and then I would get chest tightness and feel short of breath. Pulse always normal when it happened at 80. So I would call and all doctors say is ohh it's anxiety. They said the stress...

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Feeling shock like sensations

I recently was interrogated at MD appt. Since that appt I have been getting shock like sensations to upper right area of my chest and to my left side (high up beneath my rib cage). I called MD office and they state it is nothing they did.  I know something is different. Any suggestions of what it could be?

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