Pacemaker speeding you up when not needed.

• by nicbridge
• 2018-06-13 04:48:20
• Checkups & Settings
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I've had an ongoing issue probably since day 1 and I'm starting to push my electrocardiologist and the techs to come up with some kind of explaination.

I periodically experience what I call "unwanted pacing". My pulse rapidly shoots up to 130-135 (135 is my max rate) when I really dont need it to. This is most often seen when in a car usually as a passanger but sometimes as the driver. It seems to be a combination of speed, road roughness and the harshness of the Cars suspension. To complicate things further there are weeks when it happens often and weeks when it barely happens at all. 

When I (or the driver) pulls over and stops the pulse rapidly drops to normal within typically 15-45 seconds, seldom any longer.

I thought it was the accelerometer being too sensitive but its a Biotronik Evia DR-T and having just had a session with the techs I now know there is no accelerometer. The Tech tells me DDD is off and CLS is on although the settings print out I have says DDD-CLS.

They also tell me that the PM responds to changes in my body and are at a loss to explain the strong correlation between motion and the unwanted pacing other than to ask semi jokingly if am I scared when someone is driving (no its not the case).

I've had the same thing happen in planes - rarely and only when taxiing but never in the air and I've done short (1hr) to long (14hr) flights) and occasionally when walking very slowly like browsing in shops.

Anyone got any thoughts?