24 hour holter monitor

how come we still have to endure these heart monitors with all their leads and wires after pacemaker implant. It's very disappointing to see how these "new" pacemakers aren't as good as they claim to be to help diagnose problems. UGH. A year ago when I was implanted with this high-tech device, I thought my heart monitor days were over with. Jeez.....this is frustrating..

4 Comments

hmmm. . . .

by Harry'sMommy - 2009-07-23 10:07:30

I'm not sure what you are going through, but I'm sorry about your troubles. My child has had a pacemaker for 3 1/2 years, and we've never had to do a 24 hour monitor since the implant. We do a "phone check" with a device that sends pacemaker info to the hospital. I do remember doing the 24 hour monitor (uggh! 6-month-olds are like alligators! Not to mention the difficulties of changing a diaper without dislodging a wire :( we did this until he was 18 months old and got a pacemaker.) I wonder why we don't do the 24 hour monitor any longer and you do? I'm interested in hearing from others???
Hang in there! Maybe there's another way . . .
Harry's Mommy

holter monitors

by pupu - 2009-07-24 02:07:15

In my case (as I have understood it) I had a 24 hour holter monitor about 8 months after my pm was implanted for investigating possible other heart problems, ones that the pm cannot do much or anything about. The test was done by a different kind of cardiologist (the ordinary, not the pm specialist) at a different clinic where I was sent by the pm clinic. So I understood that it was a separate issue and not a test that all pacers would automatically need from time to time.

It's not so much the monitor

by Angelie - 2009-07-24 10:07:12

It's not so much the monitor that bothers me, because I'm a pro at wearing 30 day event monitors and 24 hour holter monitors. Before my pacemaker, I would average 2-3 of them a year, andI have scars from wearing electrodes so frequently.
The issue that bothers me is that I was "sold" on the idea and reassured that my new technological device would not only help my heart with electrical signals, but ALSO help diagnose lingering problems as it records abnormal rhythms.
I had a peace of mind knowing that every flutter, or weird, uncomfortable run of beats that I felt would be recorded. I have not stopped feeling strange rhythms since my pacemaker implant a year ago- August, but it never bothered me much because I felt as if I could depend on my good 'ol trusty pacer to pick up and record these rhythms.
That's what so frustrating. Turns out that my trusty pacer doesn't record hardly anything at all of what I'm feeling because it doesn't meet or exceed the set parameters. My pacer will not record anything unless it's over a set rate, but I know for fact that not all arrhythmias are fast, but they're equally bothersome.
Don't get me wrong.....I'm thankful for my little machine. Just wish that it was a little better at diagnostic recording, and I'm not certain whether that's the pacer or programmers fault.

WI-FI connection

by Vicens - 2009-07-25 05:07:33

Hi, fellow PM :
I`m upgrading my Internet connection from modem to DSL with a router, Ethernet connection.
Now this router I can use plugged directly into my PC or via WI-FI, that is, an antenna emitting waves all over the place and I using the PC anywhere in the house.
I wonder if these waves could affect my pacemaker in any way, as the leads could act as "receivers".
Has anyone of you some kind of experience about this matter ?
Thanks. All the best

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