Burning sensation

I recently got a medical alert device for my father, who has a pacemaker. He reports that during sleep the alert, which he wears around his neck, shifts. When it's over the pacemaker he feels like the wires are burning him. When he moves the device, the burning goes away. His doctor told him the medical alert couldn't be doing this, but that doesn't make a lot of sense. My father is not the type to make things like this up or call attention to himself. Any advice?

5 Comments

Hmm...

by Pookie - 2010-03-02 08:03:58

Until you figure it out, could he not perhaps just keep the medical alert next to him at all times or somehow link it to his belt or wrist watch? At night, he could always put it on his nightstand???

Good luck,
Pookie

Just A Thought

by timberhitch - 2010-03-02 10:03:54

First, let me say that elecricity and me don't mix. This is just a thought and I don't know if this is even possible but I thought I would throw it out anyway. Could it be that when the chain or device is laying across the pacemaker that it is completing an electrical circuit through the PM leads and that the resistance in the circuit is causing the wires to heat up? I would assume that there would have to be a break in the insulation coating on the leads for this to happen. Again, just a thought.

Timberhitch

Burning Sensation

by amarch - 2010-03-02 12:03:14

Thanks Frank. Definitely agree with your first statement. No, he says that the burning is internal; it feels like the wires in the pacemaker are getting hot. He doesn't use any other electrical devices. It only has happened since he started wearing the alert, and if he moves if off of the pacemaker the burning stops. But it wakes him up when the alert slides over the site.

Burning sensation

by ElectricFrank - 2010-03-02 12:03:34

First off when someone is feeling something like this it is actually happening. The question is always why.

Is it the wires on the med alert that are burning? By any chance are they getting next to the incision site and irritating it? The metal in the wire could be something he is sensitive to.

One other question: does he use an electric blanket or heated water bed? It is possible the wires are getting near the electric field of something like that and conducting enough current to be a problem.

I can't think of anything else that would cause the problem. The alert only transmits when he pushes the button if it is the kind of device I'm thinking of. Even if it did the transmitter is very low power.

frank

burning sensation

by explorer78 - 2015-02-28 08:02:18

I recently had my PM in Nov 2014 and I have experienced burning sensation immediately after surgery and to this day I complain to my doctor that I am burning inside where the wires are. This pain is constant and hurts. I find myself rubbing the area all the time. Can someone please advise. The doctor looks at me like its normal and believe me its not a healing pain.

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