Leads

Hi Everyone

Its been a while since I have been on the site, hope your all pacing well.

Can anyone tell me what are the symptoms of bad leads or displacement are.

I am not feeling my best age 57 I am tired, plagued by PVC and I am having the odd dizzy spell, just a fast speed wobble if you know what I mean, lasts a second or two its nothing major but add them all together and I thought maybe its my leads ??
My leads are 18years old in march was thinking of having a party for them hehe

Any ideas

Maureen

3 Comments

leads

by Tracey_E - 2015-01-27 10:01:13

An 18 year old lead is not displaced. It's so secured by scar tissue after all this time that it would take a specialized laser to get it out.

There is no one symptom, but a bad lead will show up on the interrogation report. If it stops working and it's the lead you use, you will not be pacing. When mine went bad, it paced just fine. The insulation ruptured, they compared it to running the AC with the window open. It worked, it just was no longer efficient. They had to crank the juice up to get the signal through so the battery life was ridiculously short (2 years!), but it paced normally right up until it was turned off. Sometimes too much scar tissue builds so they don't work as well. There are lots of things that can go wrong. Average lead life is 15 years.

PVC's are generally unrelated to pacing and there's nothing you can do about them. They're also harmless. Annoying and frustrating, but harmless.

You should totally have a party for them, but don't count them out yet. Odds are it's something else. Mine were 20 years old in May. One still works fine, the other was replaced 5 years ago.

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by Tracey_E - 2015-01-27 10:01:50

Another thought, write down when you have the dizzy spells. They can look on the report and see if the pm picked up anything.

A Plagueof PVC's, eh?

by donr - 2015-01-28 06:01:59

Mo, that's a pretty good descriptor for a whole batch of them, sort of like a herd of cows; a pod of whales; a covey of quail; a flock of geese; a Coven of witches; a pack of wolves, etc. You get the idea - I think it's a pretty darned good descriptor for the little nuisances!

Back to your problem - I think we have discussed PVC's before. Exactly HOW MANY of them are you having? Until you have them approximately 20 -30% of the time they are relatively innocuous & asymptomatic - UNLESS you sense them & get all wobbly with worry about them.

When you have them in about the 30% range, you can get just the way you describe - fatigued & possibly the dizzy spell. Depends a lot on who you are & how you react.

When you get to that point, there are anti-arrhythmatic meds you can take that can bring them under control.

That's my major problem, so I have a lot of yrs experience w/ a Plague of PVC's.

Donr

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