can you take a cat scan with a pacemaker?


thanks

 

Hello to all, I am fortunately a healthy individual who loves her new bionic husband with his back up battery. I am the researcher of the family as such I am on a mission to discover if anyone who has received a pacemaker has experienced a rise in their blood pressure following the the insertion.
Facts:
Diagnosis: Bradycardia/Vagus Tonus
Operation: Sept.2011
PM Type: Meditronic ADDRL 01 Atr lead/RV lead
Mode: DDDR

My husband is a 67 yr old athlete and continues a healthy exercise regime. Everything is going well but for the erratic and high blood pressure. He has always had a very good BP, so I have to think there must be a correlation with the PM.
Has anyone experienced this after PM inse...

 

Just back from being "tuned" (6 week after PM). What a nice technician. All OK but changed settings. Switched off movement sensor so i dont go into sleep mode. (My heart was going down to 45 bpm with this on) Upped the threshhold to 60 (it was at 50bpm). So I wont go below 60 bpm now. Lowered the voltage to .3 from .5. Lead seems to have shifted again slightly. Will check again in 3 months.
Cant tell what this strange "bubble" sensation is in my throat. Nothing to do with the pacemaker.
Reading between the lines I will be changing Cardiologists. Thanks for support and info given.

 

Monitor work with a digital phone line, like Time Warner Cable? We are about to switch over from a standard land line service to Time Warner. They say that we still use the same wall jacks which they connect to behind the scenes and then runs through their fiber optic lines to be transmitted.
I can still cancel that so thought I'd better see if anyone here has any experience with this.
Thanks for any input.
Harry

 

I am looking to find a good pacer technition who works within Melbourne Australia.My dad needs help he has had this heavy leg feeling like they don't want to walk...This is the way he explaines it to everyone.He has had test after test to find his leg problem, but there is no answer.Cardiologist sends him to doctors and doctors says pacemaker problem is the likely answer.They have all given up ! We would like to find someone who can adjust his settings and keep him in a clinic to get his setting right,he is more than certain it is his settings but they wont listen to him.Please let me know where we can go for a one on one assessment rather than hospital jargon. Really need your help! We will travel far if anyone can do this.

 

I had my ICD/Pacemaker put in March 2011, so not even a year yet. I have the device that sends in the info about my device to the Dr. Last time I did a scan my Dr called me and told me I needed to see the rep for St. Jude.

Since I live a few hours away I asked if I could get it the same day as my 6 month check up with my EP. Does that mean something may have been wrong with my last test or is it normal to have to see the rep? I am just curious as to why I would have to see the rep.

 

Getting a pacemaker at the age of 36...WOW! For me, it’s been difficult to deal with. That being said, I am happy to have found this site.

I had a dual chamber Medtronic pacer placed on 12-2 for Sick Sinus Syndrome. My rate settings are 60-130. I was recently in the ER having fallen and broke my finger. When they put me on the monitor, I noticed that my heart rate would brady down in the low 50’s, I would have a 1-2 second pause, followed by coupled PVC’s, followed by a a shorter pause and then I started pacing. I have to say that I have not seen this before. During these quick episodes, I feel horribly weak. I still am having them. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

Hi
I'm 5 weeks post surgery for a dual lead scientific. I'm PM dependant from A-Fib that meds would not control and didnt want to go the ablation route. I have the vagus nerve A fib.
Anyway went for my first adjustment today, they turned on my sensor for respiration and supposedly set me at 70-140 from 80-130. Checked my resting rate for the past 2 hours at intervals, and was sitting down. My rest is either 80 or 84!!!?? How can this be.?? And all the rotten luck my doc is leaving to go teach in another part of the state and I'm stuck with a stranger. Should I call the office or the pacer place to see why I'm not at 70 where I should be.

 

My 6 mothly pacemaker check was this wednesday. On the way I visited a friend I had made whilst in hospital who was overweight and he was given a triple heart bypass. I found him in a poor state of health with shortness of breath and fluid leaking out from his legs which looked a very nasty problem to say the least. The check went well but I am down to 2 1/2 years left on the battery which will equate to a life of 7 years. When returning home I was told of a near neighbour who has had a pacemaker for bradycardia
for about 20 years had been admitted to hospital having suffered a stroke. We did not get on and I am wondering if I will see him again. Never a dull life for me. Have a nice Xmas and forget your woes for a bit. And of course...

 

Had PM in July of this year. My cardiologist recently asked me why my PM is pacing all the time. I was under the impression it was supposed to pace if heart rate went below 60. The electrophysiology nurse could not give me a satisfactory answer and said if I wanted it adjusted to come in. I was there last month and no changes were made. Its not my call whether I want an adjustment made or not. I am so frustrated at lack of information. I am concerned that if it paces all the time the battery will wear out sooner rather than later. Its only been about six months now but I will make an appointment to see the surgeon who implated the PM to see if I can get some insight, although I'm not optimistic since he was cold and uncommunicativ...

 

Hi, I have sent a couple of private messages regarding this. I thought I would put a general posting here too to gather advice and help on my first ever print out results for my PM

DDD (I think this means RR off, think I am ok with this)
mode: AAI<-->DDD
Lower Rate: 50ppm
Upper Tracking Rate: 160ppm
Measured Lead Impedance 402ohms Atrial (ok)
459ohms Ventricular (ok)

PVC singles 295
PVC runs 92
PAC runs 3

Pacing % of total
AS-VS 95.6%
AS-VP 0.3%
AP-VS 4.1%
AP-VP <0.1%
MVP on

These are the results that appear on my report. If anyone can help explaijn them and give an opinion or advice I would be very grateful.

 

I move from US to Poland.I had my pacemaker inplanted in america a year ago.Now just wondering if doctor in Poland can check my pacemaker without problems.Don't know if they use same equipment for check up.I have appointment with cardiologist next week so he will tell me what to do here in Poland.I am a bid nervous.

 

It will be 2 years in February 2012 that I received my pacemaker for third degree heartblock. It came on all of a sudden and the doctors were stumped. I was in the hospital for 5 days and they ran tons of tests. The EP felt bad for me since I had no pre-existing conditions that would explain why this happened to me.

So for the first 7 months of being paced almost 100%, in September of last year (2010) the doctor decided to make an adjustment in my pm and while doing so saw that my heart was beating on its own (I also wore a holter monitor earlier that month since I had not been feeling well - rapid heartbeats, etc). So after being paced nearly 100%, in November 2010 I was only pacing 30%. In May 2011, I was paced 20%, and now N...

 

I was wondering if anyone out there could relate to the lowering of the pacemaker during sleep, as the heart normally does, and what benefit there might be to that? I see the question may not be intelligently raised. I should have added for someone who is not pacemaker dependent.

My cardiologist suggested that recently, but it did not turn out well. The time it was set for did not hold nor did the time it was supposed to be programmed for daily activities. For lack of a better explanation, "it woke up" earlier by an hour or two. Above all else, when it slowed down it made me feel very tired.

 

I'm a 62-year old with sick sinus syndrome, had my PM implant 2 weeks ago and feel fine. I want to get back to running as soon as possible as I miss it like crazy - been running for 30 years, BUT my rate response mode on my AAIR PM is switched off at the moment and they won't switch it on until I go back for my first check after another 3 weeks. I went for a 2-mile jog this morning and had exactly the same sudden heart rate drop symptoms while running as I had before the PM. Does anyone know why they won't switch it on sooner? I realise I'm lucky to have no issues with post-op problems, but just anxious to get going properly again.

 

I woke up this morning to a call from medtronic telling me to transmit my data anytime tomorrow. They have always done this without my knowing and sent me the result. I have never done this so i hope i do it right. No doubt they will let me know if I do something wrong. What has changed and why wasn’t I told well before it happened so that I could check on what to do? I am assuming I just press that button and sit there like I did to set it up.
Kathykat11

 

Hello there and thank you for always making me feel optimistic about having a pace maker. I am 45 and an avid runner. I have had my pacemaker for almost a year and have been back to the office several times to get "tweaked". I am set at 60-130 due to bradycardia and have all settings turned off. My heart rate seems to jump up when I walk up a flight of stairs in the a.m. to wake up kids and my heart feels like it is going to jump out of my chest, same when moving around slowly. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my heart is racing. My running is o.k., but my heart rate goes up really quick. I have read other posts about members who have been monitored on a treadmill and wonder if this is something I should ask for. ...

 

In 2009 I was diagnosed with Total (Third Degree) Heart Block. As a result I was fitted with dual lead pm and have attended pacing checks since.
At a recent check I was told that my atrial pacing was about 52% and ventricular was about 54%. I understand that "block" is a break in the electrical connection between the top and bottom half of the heart but that the atrial sinus is unaffected and continues to work normally.It is only when the impulse fails to reach the lower chambers that the pm kicks in and gives these chambers a shock.
Why, therefore,am I being told that my A lead is pacing?
GEW

 

I posted here a couple of weeks discussing my new PM and shortness of breath issues.

Outcomes have been good but here's a general outline for others who might be looking for answers.

After being slighly misguided by a PM tech (not my regular one) into believing my funny beat feelings were ectopic beats I had a much longer session with the regular tech. Whilst I was fitted with a PM for 3rd degree AV Block which lasted for some 12 hours it seems I dont pace that often and on arrival at the Docs office I wasnt pacing at all. The initial thoughts were "no pacing - no PM issues" but whilst sitting there I started pacing sometimes for primary, sometimes secondary block. That funny feeling I was having was pacing! Between t...

 

Had PM installed 4 mos. ago. So often felt fatigued with setting at 59-61.

Wwnt back today and PM reset to 70 with high of @ 115. Before when PR got to 78 or so I was exhausted..

When PM reset today immediately felt energy level go up.
I'm so glad, to feel somewhat "normal"..

I'm 76 and have various other health issues, O the joys of aging!(?)

Best wishes to all.