Anyone have MRI after pacemaker, and have symptoms

Hi. I have a Medtronic HIS bundle pacemaker for almost a year now. Yesterday I had an MRI for a pituitary problem and a Medtronic Rep put me in what they called was “safe mode”  I didn’t seem to feel a difference until after the MRI, the rep was no longer available (scheduling issues)  and I waited another 1 1/2 hours for another rep to put me back to my doctors setting. During the wait I started having upper chest pain and pressure that I assumed was my esophageal spasms since I hadn’t eaten much do to testing. 

Medtronic Rep notices this and said it was the pacemaker. He made adjustments and he was right. The pain and pressure was from the pacemaker. Never had this before.

Has anyone had this experience before. I just expected lower heart rate but not pain and pressure. I’m seeing my electro cardio dr in a few weeks.

Any guidance info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, and good luck to all

Julie

1 Comments

safe mode

by Tracey_E - 2019-04-17 12:16:57

If you depend on the pacer to get your rate up and it was in safe mode, your pulse was a steady rate that whole time. You probably didn't notice it during the test but as soon as you started to move around, your heart wanted to go higher but the pacer wasn't doing its usual job. 

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