High Heart Rate

I got my new Medtronic Adapta about six weeks ago. This is my second pm for my Kappa lasted seven & half years.
My old one had the perfect settings for me from begining.
This one have been tweaked four times EP & factory rep.I think the Adapta has so many new features that getting the setting right is diffcult.Walking upstairs my heart will be 90 but I am breathing good.
Would love to hear your views.Settings has been changed a few times.Only my pulse rate is high compared to my Kappa. The pulse rund from 80 to 115- 117. Even my family doctor thought that was running high.
Has any one had a problem with there heart rate to high from a new pacer?

1 Comments

what is high

by Tracey_E - 2009-05-18 06:05:07

90 on exertion is not high. What is it resting? It might be that your rate response is set too sensitive and it's artificially raising your rate.

My hr is in the 80's at rest. That's considered high, but it's perfectly normal for me. There is no one number that's normal for everyone. If you're feeling good, then I wouldn't stress too much that the number is high. And I wouldn't worry much about the family doctor opinion either. What they think is the range of normal is different than what a cardiologist will get concerned over. The family doctor has limited experience with pm's, that's why they refer us to a specialist in the first place.

It can take a while to get the settings right. My first one took about a month to get it right, passed out once and felt like I was living at the cardiologist. My second worked fine from the day I came home. The third one took some tweaking but not much. The fourth one was great for about a year then my body changed and it took months to get it right again, two stress tests and finally St Judes engineers were called in. They made me a case study and finally figured out what to do, and I've felt great ever since. There is no normal!

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