ticking ticking ticking

I have had my pacemaker for 2 years. Just today I noticed in a silent room a ticking. I heard it again this evening and realized that it was coming from my PM. I have never heard this before. I feel like a ticking time bomb! Has anyone else experiended this ticking sound? Does it indicate a problem of some sort? Zwin

4 Comments

It's probably mechanical

by bobad - 2009-01-16 08:01:55


You didn't say whether the ticking was at heart rate, but I bet it is. I guess every time your heart beats, the big vein jumps and moves the leads. The leads are probably knocking together or against the pacer.

Maybe you need a new clock.

by heckboy - 2009-01-16 12:01:23

I don't believe there are moving parts in a PM to tick.

Me too

by majella - 2009-01-26 04:01:46

Hi, I just had an atrial lead revision 6 days ago and I have a clicking sound inside. Only when I lie on my back, not so much I hear it, but I feel it, if my husband puts his ear to my chest he can hear it. It feels like something rubbing off one another, I think it must be the leads rubbing off a bone or something. This is my fifth pacer and I never had it before, not bothering me , but a bit strange!
Majella

Any updates?

by TruSoulDJ - 2017-11-27 01:04:10

hi Majella,

8 yeArs later, what do you know about the tapping? Mine is doing that now. After a year of having it, I’m guessing this is new. But I’m lying in bed with the tv on the lowest setting. Could it be it’s been happening and I never noticed?

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