Upper Tracking Rate change

• by SaraTB
• 2013-04-16 04:04:26
• Checkups & Settings
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After more than 10 years with a PM (this is my second) I've been having some problems recently and today had a meeting with my nurse practitioner, my EP and the rep. from Boston Scientific (who drove 2 hrs from Mass. just for the meeting!) to try and get to the bottom of it.
No-one's really sure what's going on, but lots of small tweaks were made, and in particular - at my request - my upper tracking rate increased from 155 to 165. We'll see how that goes - thanks to members here for discussing it in other posts, which made me ask the team some questions!
Anyway, long story short, I wanted to say how grateful I am that they're all working as a team, no-one's ego is getting in the way, and they're listening to what I tell them. I read some of the stories here of how members have been dismissed by their doctors - "the PM is working fine" and so on. I really think my team are an example to the profession of how it should work: the patient isn't feeling good, even if we're not seeing anything obvious on the read-out, lets see what we can do for her.

I just spent two hours raking and weeding in the garden, and although a bit puffed, I do feel better than I have been.

If you're not getting this kind of supportive teamwork from your provider, then -if possible - I would urge you to find someone who does work this way.
Sara