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CRT-D heartbeat still irregular?
I have had my CRT-D since 2/1/18 for LBBB. Everything has been going great. I am healing and Im feeling better each week. I have only had my first checkup 12 days after pm with tech. He said everything looked fine. I will see doctor in April. I am waiting to start cardio rehab so I can find out exercises I can do. I am ready to get back in shape. I have gotten myself walking one hour every morning with no discomfort or SOB. I have one concern. Whenever I take my bp at times my machine sh...
MRI friendly ICD
Hi I’ve recently had a pacemaker fitted but now need an ICD. Are there any MRI friendly ICDs available privately in the UK? I assume they aren’t generally available on the NHS.
New Pacemaker Club Member
- by ka lua o ka manawa
- 2018-03-18 17:41:43
- ICDs
- 1394 views
- 1 comments
Aloha Pacemaker Club,
New member and first post. I have a question for y’all. Are we able to post pictures and/or videos on here?
’O ka manawa lua.
Second chance heart.
- jon
Ground Hogs day
- by The real Patch
- 2018-03-14 15:54:25
- ICDs
- 1475 views
- 2 comments
sitting here working on a painting and being the couch potato, American for lazy, I am didn't bother to turn off the television. Apparently some crime show was on detailing an actual murder in Texas. Now normally this wouldn't be a topic for this site but for the bizarre role a defibrillator played.
Now it seems this prominent man in a Texas town was discovered dead. During his autopsy they discovered he had a defibrillator implanted and being creative decided to see if the...
Sure
- by The real Patch
- 2018-03-09 19:09:16
- ICDs
- 1471 views
- 0 comments
Sure I get a lifetime achievement award and nobody informs me.
Blake why didn't you tell me I was banished from the site, I'd have worn my tux and gotten a date for the ceremony. Always last to know...or is Robin mistaken as usual?
Many Shocks
I just had a lead come detached. I was shocked continually for several minutes until we got enough magnts off our refrigerator, hour and a half later I was at the hospital and got to the hospital and had it turned off for REAL. I now have a new ICD and I am very anxious it might happen again, although I have been assured it won't. I guess what I need are some ideas to become less anxiious.
Thanks, Karen
Many Shocks
I just had a lead come detached. I was shocked continually for several minutes until we got enough magnts off our refrigerator, hour and a half later I was at the hospital and got to the hospital and had it turned off for REAL. I now have a new ICD and I am very anxious it might happen again, although I have been assured it won't. I guess what I need are some ideas to become less anxiious.
Thanks, Karen
Medicare Supplement Ins.
I have had an ICD pacer/defib since 2013 but lost my supplemental insurance. Does anyone know of an supplemental ins that allows for icds ?
Phantom shocks
Aloha from Hawaii,
I have had a device since 2002 with no shocks ever. Today, after a meeting, I stood up and felt a bit dizzy. Something I have had happen before, no big deal.
However after I walked a few feet I felt a series of 6-9 shocks, starting at my feet and ending at my head. They were just a few seconds apart. They were not of the intensity of a shock that I was told to expect( like being kicked by a horse), more like the shock from an electrical ou...
Scheduled for an ICD
I had a pademaker installed in 2014. No problems except my ejection fraction kept dropping. Its now 24%. I have dilated cardiomyopathy. My cardiologist suggested that the drop in EF may be because of what was referred to as "pacemaker syndrome. She has now scheduled me for an ICD. She stated that it may also improve my EF.
Any comments?
I am concerned about faulty shocks and jolts.
Boston Scientific Resonate X4 CRT-D versus Medtronic Claria MRI Surescan CRT-D
Hello Everyone,
And thank you in advance for your feedback. The entire world of implantible cardiac rhythem management devices is competely new to me, so I appreciate all the feedback.
Between the newly FDA approved Boston Scientific Resonate X4 CRT-D, and the Medtronic Claria MRI Surecsan CRT-D device, which would you pick and why?
The Resonate has a longer battery life, and measures heart failure using 5 critera, and MRI safe up to 1.5 Tesla. While the Medtronic...
Huge swelling after ICD insertion
I had my pacemaker replaced with an ICD on January 17, 2018. The swelling was huge and I could not lift my arm (and till can’t all the way). The swelling has gone down but here it is a month later and I still have a very tight spot, bruising and pain over and around the device - and my left arm is still not fully flexible.
Is this normal?
Ellie
FIXING OF PERMANENT PACEMAKER
- by chellamdins
- 2018-02-07 07:11:00
- ICDs
- 1323 views
- 2 comments
Dear Friends,
Iam new to this forum. Iam in India - Tamilnadu
my relative she is aged about 30 yrs has frequent dizziness sometimes for the past few days.so we taken her to hospital , after some days she was quite normal and doctors asked her to get discharge from hospital, during yesterday afternoon she again has some dizzines for few seconds and she was unconscious on that time.so doctors agin take ECG and other tests and finally told she needs a PACEMAKER hereafter as her heart...
Roto tillers
- by stevemerrill
- 2018-02-05 11:02:01
- ICDs
- 2716 views
- 1 comments
Hi, I had a Medtronic CRT-D pacer installed last week and I have a large garden that will need to be tilled in the spring. I know about the distance I need to keep from the ignition system, but does anyone have expeience to advise if the vibration of the tiller will set off my ICD? Aa jackhammer is used as an example in the pacer literature as a verbotten tool and while a tiller isn't that rough, there is more vibration than a lawn mower or snow blower. Perhaps a r...
Flicking
I had my ICD implanted in May 2017. I have an issue with uncomfortable "flicking" since it was implanted. Does anyone know the cause of this? They lowered both pacing setting and threshold but it is still happening. TIA
Help requested
- by loismedical
- 2018-01-11 20:21:12
- ICDs
- 1578 views
- 1 comments
Hi all,
I am posting to ask if anyone would be interested in helping our start up company develop a product for ICD patients and their loved ones. The idea is outlined at loismedical.com. We are initially looking for 100 hundred ICD recipients for some market research and then eventually some of these people would be invited to help us test the actually product in the field. We have filed a patent but we would like to prove a real need before we spend too time and effort in a produ...
S-ICD
Happy New Year!
Does anyone have S-ICD (the lead under the skin, is not in the vein and heart)??
Nw PM/ICD Recipient Questions
- by mooseu2003
- 2017-12-25 12:32:23
- ICDs
- 1477 views
- 3 comments
I just got my device 3 days ago so I''m very new to this. I have a trip scheduled in April whereby I will be gong on a train over the mountains and will be at elevations from 5000 - 9000 feet while on the train. I won't be doing anything physical but will tis affect my device in any way? The length of time in that altitude is about 27 hours.
Fred
EP Study
Hi everyone, I am a 70 year old male, with a St Jude CRT-P implanted in July of this year. My recovery went fairly well, up until mid-October, when I started experiencing runs of V Tach during my rehab sessions. As time went on they became more and more frequent and more and more intense. The first thought was pacemaker mediated tachycardia (PMT), but they could not adjust it out. I am scheduled for an EP Study on January 9. The EP will be prepared to perform ablation if they can id...
ICD and adjustments
I have a ICD device since 2011 and replaced generator in 2015 I have the Riata lead and was told there is a magnet we can get to turn off the device in the case of multiple shocks is there such a magnet and has anyone used it? Thanks TMo
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