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Pacemaker "Dos and Don'ts" after surgery
Pacemaker & ICDs | Last Active: Sep 28 8:58am | Replies (45)Comment receiving replies
I have had a dual chamber pacer for 28 years. It was inserted when I was 27 years old. My atrial lead cracked many years ago and was replaced. I was in the office recently to have a check and was told that my ventricular lead was older than the he was (Medtronic rep). Yay for me. I played soccer until I was in my early 40's and retired before I could mess up a knee, but continued to golf, fish, and lift weights. As you can understand, my 28 year old lead survived a lot of serious activity. I cannot speak to your situation/condition, but I can tell you that I changed nothing after the original pacemaker was inserted. I am having my 5th generator inserted in 2 weeks, and I don't even know it's there. I am fortunate that I only use the pacer < 1% of the time, but I'm sure glad it's there when I need it. Best of luck,
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@sbhbill
Great for you and your success. I think we both agree staying active is a key.
What my EP advised me was everyones veins in their heart are different in terms of twist and turns. My lead that came out he could not get it where he wanted to. It came out. So I had what a surgery where they go in your chest from the side, deflate your lung, and put a lead directly on heart. That fixed the issue until that lead bccame compromised and such a high inpedince it was shut off. I then had a new one put in through normal way (veins).
I was done static not screw in. It moved slightly and they changed he way it pulses heart and correcting the issue. I just go a notice from Mayo cllinic about my leads. It stated Boston Scientific was having problems with their leads becoming calcified. Not sure how that will affect me and my leads which are approaching 20 years old.
I have 3 years left on battery and have no idea what I will get 3 years from now as teh devices have improved so much over time. I was told would not longer have home monitor device as information would be sent to my phone.
Trying to keep my phsical fitness routine but now as 78 the legs mostly really starting to get weaker and not happy with all my exercising.