telephone check mystery

• by NRugg51
• 2007-11-17 03:11:17
• Checkups & Settings
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I have had my St, Jude model 5376 about 2 years with no problems. In late Octorber I went with a friend to a hospital where she had an MRI. I was sitting in a room about 30 feet from where the machine was, the door was open.

I was a little concerned, it happened that a couple days later I was scheduled for an in office check of my pacemaker, every thing was OK, they said.

But days later I unexpectedly passed out while sitting in a chair talking with some one.

I called the pacemakre clinic and asked for a phone check.
When I did the 2nd part of the check where I hold a magnet over the pacemaker, I heard strange noises being transmitted for a few seconds over the phone line, then the familiar rapid clicks.

The operator told me "Do the magnet test again, you are moving the magnet all over the place".

I did and the result was normal sounds. I went into the affice a couple days later and they checked to see if there had been a rapid heart beat episode the day I passed out. Ther was not.

Could being near and MRI being responsible for this passout?
Did the magnet fix the problem?

Norman