Roller coasters

are we allowed to go on roller coasters?

3 Comments

Depends

by ElectricFrank - 2010-05-07 01:05:22

Wait until you have had the pacer for a while. Most of the modern roller coasters are pretty rough physically on your body. It could get pretty painful for you.

As far as the effect on the pacer you need to avoid any of the magnetic drive type coaster. They use a traveling magnetic field in the track to propel the train. It could be strong enough to interfere with the operation of the pacer.

The other issue is whether you have Rate Response turned on in the pacer. This feature senses your body movement to control your HR. The vibration of the coaster could send your HR way up.

If you ask the doctor or the operator of the roller coaster the answer will likely be NO, but this is just a CYA thing.

frank

I really hope so..

by TLR - 2010-05-07 05:05:06

I'm off to Vegas next week and want to go on Stratosphere. Put it this way, if the ride operator doesn't ask I sure as hell won't be saying anything. My biggest problem will be the height.

I have

by sln - 2010-05-07 07:05:31

My booklet doesn't say anything about roller coasters, and I've gone on smaller ones (e.g., Space Mountain at Disney Land) many times with no problem. I've looked and there were no "no pacemaker" signs on the ones I've ridden. There may be on the big, fast ones with the magnetic drives, though - I'm too much of a weenie for those anyway so have never looked :-) I also don't have rate response so that's not an issue. I would check with your doctor before going for sure, but I don't think you need to assume they're all off limits, once you've healed from the implantation. My doctor does warn me if there are things that I have to avoid but in general encourages me to live my life as much as possible.

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