biotronik pacemaker

I had a pacemaker installed a year ago. I was diagnosis with low heart rate. While at hospital my heart stopped for 2 minutes while asleep. My on going issue has been that my pacemaker is activating at different times during and after exercise. It is only supposed to come on at 45 bpm during the day and 40 at night. I should mention while I am 55 I also am very fit and have always had a resting heart rate in the low 50'S. I seems the doctors dont have a way a only controling my resting heart rate. has anyone had a similar situation and was it fixed?

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Night Rate Program

by jkriz1989 - 2015-08-17 02:08:55

Biotronik pacemaker has an option for using different settings during day and night. This option is called Night Rate. The time for activation and the pacing rate for Night Rate can be changed during check-ups. But the problem with this setting is that it is time dependent. The program activates at the set time and the pacing rate will be lowered according to the setting, no matter what you are doing during that time. This sometimes can cause difficulties. So my advice is to turn it off. Since your normal pacemaker rate is set at 45 I assume that you are not fully dependent.

What type of pacemaker do you have? Is it single chamber or dual chamber? Please also check your pacemaker is rate responsive or not.

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