Brits on this site?

Hi everyone,

I am a Brit aged 73 and I had a two chamber pacemaker fitted in Kings College Hospital London in Sept 2015.  It is set to kick in if my pulse rate drops below 50x per minute.  Initially I was told that it was only operating about 5% of the time and then mainly at night.  Recently I have felt that the device has operated more frequently than this and I have brought my next check forward to early next month to verify.

Has anyone elsehad this experience and are there any other Brits using this site?


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Brits

by Loonylil - 2017-06-19 13:22:27

Hi there and welcome to the site..yes another Brit here!

i do find the site very useful as problems and concerns tend to be the same, just seems to be differences in making hospital appointments perhaps?

i hope you find your pacemaker beneficial and keep posting!

best wishes ❤️

take your pulse

by dwelch - 2017-06-23 03:40:40

Number one.  Take your pulse, for a full minute.  What number do you get, is it close to your limit is it under your limit (had better not be, esp if a full minute)?  

Depending on your condition and settings and just you, should determine how much you should be pacing.  I have a dual, wait now a three lead, two of them should be 100% or near it and I have no worries about that.  The atrial lead would be the one that doesnt pace 100% of the time, but it is what it is. If you are at 5% and i am at 25% and someone else here is at 0% that is fine.

I am not a brit so dont know the issues, but if/when you can get a call through to someone or a call back, or your next visit (sure, move it up if you can), ask them, what do you expect me to be at, is it too high, should we lower my lower limit, how will this affect battery life, etc.

Brit here too!

by LondonAndy - 2017-06-24 20:53:45

But sorry, can't help on the changes to percentage paced.  Am 100% paced here.

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