Fluttering

• by Jgrubic
• 2024-01-23 08:10:36
• Conditions, Meds & Tests
• 277 views
• 5 comments

I can feel fluttering and it seems to be getting more frequent. Mentioned it to my cardiolagist and he does not seem concerned. Should I be and is there any kind of adjustment that can be made to the device.

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Another losartin question...

• by R2D2
• 2024-01-22 20:52:41
• Conditions, Meds & Tests
• 215 views
• 3 comments

I've been putting so much effort into studying Carvedilol that I really didn't look further into Losartin, and since I'm only taking those two drugs for heart failure, and of course lasix, I'm wondering why they even put me on Losartin since according to my research, it's only used for high blood pressure, a condition I have never suffered from. My blood pressure before Losartin was in the range of 120/72 on a regular basis, only going up to the 130's over 80's whe...

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Brilanta and Fargiga

• by Pacer2019
• 2024-01-22 18:43:17
• General Posting
• 164 views
• 6 comments

Does anyone take these?  What side effects do you experience? Any shortness of breath? 

I understand Brilanta to be a blood thinner ....Im still not really clare on ahy I take fargica or what it is for? Sounds more like a diabetic drug? Like Medforman ?

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Self Advocacy

• by Pacer2019
• 2024-01-22 18:40:29
• General Posting
• 212 views
• 3 comments

I know this is preaching to the chior as folks on this website certainky are engaged in their care. It worries me at times to think about peole being served by the medical industry who cannot advocate or have no one to advocate for them.

To navigate through the process you have to educate, ask questions, and be engaged.  

here is a recent story ;

Early last Fall i pulled a groin muscle playing tennis. There was brusing from the the top of my thigh to below my knee..soli...

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Due for annual echo & cardio visit

• by Gramzo
• 2024-01-22 17:05:53
• General Posting
• 171 views
• 2 comments

Next week I'm scheduled for my annual echo and appt with my  cardiologist. It was almost a year ago that the echo showed a significant decrease in my EF (which was done 2 weeks after a flu virus) which led to my Claria MRI Quad CRTD and AV Node ablation at the beginning of September.  It took me almost to Christmas to feel normal again (dealing with PVCs, fatigue etc). Normal being what I was at prior to September.  I was having a big case of "Buyer's Remorse&...

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Dental Work

• by Bernardino
• 2024-01-22 14:45:14
• Complications
• 301 views
• 10 comments

I had my PM implant on December 31st over three weeks ago. I need to go back to my dentist and fix my teeth. Can I do it? What precautions should I follow, besides telling my dentist? 

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Virtual Reality headset

• by Maries
• 2024-01-22 12:43:18
• General Posting
• 137 views
• 1 comments

I have an MRI compatible pacemaker and would like know if I can use a virtual reality headset to play games?

The advice given with the instructions advises against using the equipment when fitted with a pacemaker but I believe this is the same advice given about magnets etc and I have been in an MRI machine with my implant!.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

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Titration with carvedilol and gut feeling

• by R2D2
• 2024-01-21 21:08:30
• Conditions, Meds & Tests
• 272 views
• 11 comments

"Titration: If tolerated, increase dosage to 6.25, 12.5, and 25 mg orally twice a day over successive intervals of at least 2 weeks. Maximum dose: 25 mg orally twice a day in patients weighing 85 kg or less and 50 mg orally twice a day in patients weighing 85 kg or greater.May 8, 2023"

This is the information about carvedilol on Drugs.com. For quite some time, I have been completely against the idea of taking more than 12.5mg twice daily. I found a study that indicated that th...

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Woodworking

• by PJ385
• 2024-01-21 11:07:58
• Interferences
• 310 views
• 12 comments

I'll be 80yrs old in 40 days, been in the construction trade and trained as a Cabinetmaker (fine furniture) as well as teaching the above trades, 66 yrs total, just had a Duel Chamber Pacemaker installed 2 weeks ago. My Doctor said I can't do wood working any more for it would interfere with my Pacemaker (Medtronic) were is my quality of life now, I'm not one to just sit around I have been very active all my life, I'm a 5 time cancer survivor also, up till now I've have st...

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Working out post pm

• by SNHeath
• 2024-01-21 07:04:00
• Exercise & Sports
• 353 views
• 4 comments

I was never much of a weightlifter, but 4/2022 I started and trained for a fitness (bikini) competition which I completed in 8/2023. I became obsessed with weights/working out. Fast forward to 12/2023 and I was found to have complete heart block and now have a pacemaker. I was first told that after 6 weeks I could do "everything" I could before, including working out. But at my 2 week checkup I was told that there would be some exercises I couldn't do, such as some shoulder...

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MEMS

• by piglet22
• 2024-01-21 05:32:45
• General Posting
• 154 views
• 4 comments

Bosch are well known for power tools and household appliances.

It might not be widely known that they also develop sensors used in industry.

They recently announced a new MEMS device.

MEMS is Micro ElectroMechanical Systems.

These are extremely small sensors for pressure and movement and the latest is an accelerometer.

It is unbelievably small and would easily sit on the head of a fine dressmaking pin.

What is really impressive is the microscopic manufactur...

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Persistence pays

• by BradyJohn
• 2024-01-20 22:30:18
• Success Stories
• 320 views
• 3 comments

Hi all, 

I received a dual lead PM almost 4 years ago.   It has taken until just a few months ago to get the settings just right for me.  I was blessed to have a technician team that takes genuine interest in her patients and their health.  Shout out to Rebecca and Erin if you're on here 🙌.   I'm also benefiting from remote monitoring (thanks again Rebecca).  My recent phone check up revealed that my 'numbers are 1000% better than befo...

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Milestone and adjustment

• by Pacer2019
• 2024-01-20 14:25:11
• Exercise & Sports
• 239 views
• 5 comments

Well it's has been 10 days since Pacemaker 2.0 - a removal and reinstall .

The capacity for the human body to heal is amazing !!  When I got home I could not get out if bed without help - 10 days later ? Incision is all but healed and pain minimal . I drove yesterday and it felt great . Amazing what a difference time makes and the healing power of the body .
 

pre PM in 2019 I was a competive RB player - then a PB player/instructor .

I am thinking about di...

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Mashgin self checkout

• by esfinest22
• 2024-01-20 14:06:12
• Interferences
• 306 views
• 4 comments

Hello my husband has had a defibrillator since 2020 due to him having a cardiac arrest, By God grace I am a RN and I was not scheduled to work that night to perform CPR when he went into cardiac arrest. He's had the defibrillator for 3 years he's had no issues no shocks  until now. Last night when we out of town in SC I sat in the car while he went into a Circle K store his defibrillator went off that was the first time it has ever went off. He walked infront of the self che...

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again not getting email notification about someone posting to query

• by new to pace....
• 2024-01-19 09:55:39
• General Posting
• 231 views
• 7 comments

Have to go on site to see if anyone has posted an answer to my question.  Since the takeover on this site i find we are going backward.  Spell check has disappeared and now  emails about those posting to our queries.

new to pace

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mri for rotator cuff tear

• by new to pace....
• 2024-01-18 20:55:24
• Conditions, Meds & Tests
• 246 views
• 6 comments

Now the results of the MRI:                                

1.High-grade partial-thickness tear at the articular surface fibers of the supraspinatus tendon measures approximately 7x13mm.  The tendon involving approximately 75% of the tendon thickness.  No atrophy or fatty infiltration in the suprainatus muscle.           ...