short battery life

I had a medtronic pacemaker-defibrillatorscp installed 2 years ago. They now tell me the battery is failing. Why? I have atrial fib and have had one hit of congestive heart failure 2 years ago

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by Tracey_E - 2012-11-28 09:11:09

Average on an icd is 4-5 years but if it fires I think it goes down faster than that. Ask if your leads are good or anything else is irregular. When I had a very short battery life, one of my leads had gone bad so it was like running the air conditioner with the windows open- the house cools but the power bill is high.

Replacements are super easy! They go in the same place so it's all scar tissue. Assuming your leads are ok, allthey do is pop out the box and put a new one in so no limitations while we heal other than taking care of the incision.

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by SUPERSALE - 2012-11-30 11:11:44

doing when sleep or awake? i would be fully sleep so won't feel or see nothing..

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by dchap55 - 2012-12-02 02:12:43

Thank you TracyE. Your are correct. it is a three wire device. one of the wires, the ventical defib, became disconnected last april. no one bothered to advise me of this until last week (11 28, 2012. Surgery is my Christmas present
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