This June 46 years pacemaker wearer

awesome!

by Tracey_E - 2024-05-11 18:14:14

I was 30 years yesterday. How old were you when nyou got your first? 

still relatively new to pacing

by Gemita - 2024-05-11 19:02:34

I received my Medtronic dual chamber pacemaker in May 2018, so six years of pacing.  My husband received his single lead Medtronic pacemaker in March 2018.

I can see we have a long way to go to catch you and Tracey_E up, but time is not on our side!

Newbie

by Lavender - 2024-05-11 19:53:31

Lol only three years with a CRT-P. 
My first post here was two years ago in June!

by Lavender - 2022-06-20 

I have been reading this site since I received my CRT-P device February 2021, after a thirty-three second ventricular standstill.  (Thank you to all those who've helped me cope and learn since then! Crustyg, Agent, Jules, Tracey, Gemita, and so many others. I will learn all your names/spelling better!)☺️

I never joined the site, because I felt like a real novice, and certainly was too new/traumatized to help anyone much. Getting stronger and wiser, though. 🥹

Gee...

by Daedalus - 2024-05-11 20:10:10

Just two years and 3 months for me.  
And at my age, I'll never ever catch you! 🤣

Impressive

by doublehorn48 - 2024-05-11 21:42:12

37 years for me. But I did have the first dual chamber pacemaker implanted at Yale New Haven. The doctors treated me like a rock star. They didn't want my autograph, they all wanted to listen to my pacemaker. But I'm certainly impressed with your story!

Only 19 years

by piglet22 - 2024-05-12 05:25:29

46 years is impressive and long enough to have seen a lot of changes in device technology.

Implanted medical devices closely follow the mobile phone technology and share many components.

Accelerometer, GPS, MEMS, batteries were driven by the need for smaller devices.

46 years would certainly seen the early generations of mobile phone "bricks"like the Vodafone models.

The controller chips were around but with a fraction of the capabilities of the present chips.

Mass production has also brought the cost down.

One thing that has changed is quality with many component suppliers and manufacturers forced out of business and the other downside is repairability.

A rosette appropriate?

15 years w/ implant

by GiGi - 2024-05-12 09:48:04

I'm on my second device. First one was 2009 at 40 years old and the second one in 2021. I wish they could make the device blue tooth rechargable so no more surgeries but they aren't there yet.

January 13, 1987

by Good Dog - 2024-05-12 16:41:41

37 years and 4 months tomorrow

I turned 38 years old on December 23rd 1986 and received my PM 3 weeks later.

46 Years!

by AgentX86 - 2024-05-12 17:12:02

Wow! That's pretty impressive.  Let's see 🤔, I was 25, then.  Just four years out of college. Ah, I guess it's not all that long.  It was only yesterday😁.

I'm just over six years (Feb '18).

Rechargable batteries:  Bad idea.  Secondary batteries are notoriously unreliable, particularly for appliances designed to go ten years between "service calls".  LVADs do have rechargeable batteries because they need so much power, a primary battery isn't possible. They have to be recharged twice a day and needn't be designed to last anywhere near ten years, unfortunately.

After a decade, replacing a pacemaker with the latest bells, and for the optimum device, seems to be a good idea anyway.

46 years!

by Aberdeen - 2024-05-14 08:59:04

Amazing-46 years! I received my first pacemaker 4 and a half years ago. At my age (68 now) hopefully I will get another 20 years out of it!

that rocks!

by dwelch - 2024-06-06 02:29:56

37 years for me.  5th device (yeah, bad average per device).  one original lead broke 30 years ago, the other original just had an issue this year so it may be down for the count, but otherwise was running one lead 37 years and another 30.  See the doc this month to find out what the plan is...

46 years is awesome, love it, happy to have you here.