Wow! You mean your surgeon and or cardilogist did not go over the device? That is terrible.

Please contact the cardiologist you are being treated by about this.

You can also contact the manufacturer of your device for guidance. Boston Scientific uses a system called latitude. I am not sure if that is the program others use.

What it is is a device you can hook up to your phone or wi fi. It will connect with the device company and collect your device information. In turn it will be sent to your cardilogist or pace clinic for inerpretation.

Your cardiologist needs to set up what they want from your home monitor with your device company. They will decide how often they will do a remote check of your device and on which day or time.

Your pacemaker will "talk" to the remote (you will never feel it or know it was done) and needs to be a certain distance from you. I have mine next to my bed. The device will record your electrical history and be able to tell your cardiologist PVCs, PACs, tachacardia, pulse rates, and any wire issues. Normally a cardiologist will read it when they get the remote informatino send to them and they will contact you about any issues.

I have a remote down every 3 months from home. I go into pace office once a year to do further testing like raising and lowering pacing, checking impedieance levels, as changes to your ICD/Pacemaker cannot be done remotely.

Really bad you were not given a full briefing on this. Was there anything inside box to help guide you? I have latitude remote and boston scientific ICD/Pacemaker.