pacemakers

are pacemaker affected by steel doors in the home???

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Bad Smitty ~ ~

by Carolyn65 - 2010-10-17 03:10:13

Time out already this morn? Better listen to Momma. I have been told when a 'Momma ain't Happy, NObody is Happy!' ~ ~

All grins aside, you came thru again Smitty. My PM is just barely over a year old, and I still do not think 'what if'. This was a good question, and as usual, you gave another great answer!

Keep on 'posting/commenting' Smitty ~ ~

God Bless,
Carolyn G. in TEXAS ~ What a 'Bootiful' Autumn in TEXAS ~

Steel Doors And Pacemakers

by SMITTY - 2010-10-17 11:10:28


Hello Mary,

Only if the door is magnetic, which I can't imagine why it would be. But to be sure, see if you hair pins, orsome other metallic object like a nail will stick to it. If it sticks it is magnetic and if it doesn't it is not magnetic and will not hurt your pacemaker.

Since my mommy is making me do a time out session and I can’t go outside and play this morning I’ll talk a little more about pacemakers with the hope it may help you or some of one new to the pacemaker life.

Your question leads me to believe that you are like many of us that have a pacemaker. You know it is an important device because it is connected directly to your heart and you certainly don’t want to do anything that will interfere with its operation. The result is that little piece of scrap metal imbedded in your chest starts to change your entire lifestyle. By that I mean most of the times before you do anything you stop and think “will this cause a problem for my pacemaker?” Well, the answer is no 99.99999% of the time.

A pacemaker is not easily affected by things we may encounter in our daily lives. The even better part is if you do run into something that interferes with the PM’s operation it will feel like an irregular heart beat and when that occurs step away from whatever has caused this feeling and your heart beat and pacemaker will return to normal operation in a second or two and no harm will have been done to either.

My first experience with this was one day, because of the crowd; I had to stop while going through a security gate at Walmart. It felt like I had a very fast and irregular heart beat. A second or two later I was through the security gate and I could not tell anything had ever happened.

If I could offer one piece of advice is go about your life as if you do not even have a pacemaker. It will sit there doing what it is programmed to do regardless of what you may be doing. The only consideration I ever give mine is to avoid hard direct blows on the pacemaker. Not that it will hurt the pacemaker, but it will hurt me and such blows can possibly damage the leads going from the pacemaker to your heart.

Good luck,

Smitty

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