Calling all Fisherman!

To those of you that have had multiple pacemaker implants. Have you ever found yourself with an extra magnet that you place over your pacer? My magnet is about 4 inches tall and basically looks like a donut.

About two years ago after my second implant I found that I had an extra magnet.. since I didn't want it to go to waste I decided to take it fishing with me. Surprisingly I had a blast and came back that day in the river with about 50 new lures and a ton of hooks, ect.. How you might ask, I attacked the magnet to 20lb test line and threw that sucker halfway down the river.. and brought in a bounty with it.

Seriously, there is a ton of things one can do with spare heart magnets! =) Anyone else tried something like this?

Thanks,

Michael ~Ticker~

1 Comments

Magnet and wires

by Pika - 2008-07-14 10:07:43

Can you tell me why you got the magnet? Do they advise you to carry around to stop the pacemaker working? I was given once on the first one to deactivate the pacemaker because my heart rate over ride for more than few hours. That one not very strong, my husband got the stronger one which was used in the industries.

Now when they're interrogation the pacer, they'll place a huge magnet (like donut) on top of the pacer. Once the medtronic tech put in the medtronic one and he was unable to see anything because mine pacer is St Jude. My cardio even needed to go and find a different wires to connect me. May be mine pacer is an old model or he needs a stronger wires to make me go "white out"!

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