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My EP took me off Eliquis but I’m petrified I’ll have a stroke now
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Feb 25 2:28pm | Replies (108)Comment receiving replies
@jc76 I guess I'm a pacemaker newbie compared to you, I received my pacemaker in June of 2019. I just have a pacemaker, not a defibrillator as so far I've had no issues with ventricular tachycardia. I got the pacemaker for bradycardia- I had tachycardia issues as well but most often these were what the EP identified as atrial tachycardia. The A-fib showed up once in 2015, ( a-flutter, actually) and the A-fib started showing up in short episodes around early 2021, I think it was. I've never gotten my pacemaker reports, I guess if I asked for them I would get them, but I haven't. But I've been notified by telephone by my cardiologist's office when there was an "actionable event"- this would be an incident in which the provider needs to take action for a patient, ie, a change in medication, further testing or something like that. I got the notification to come into the office and see the cardiologist after a pacemaker report of a couple A-fib episodes lasting several hours each, that's when he started me on Eliquis. Sounds as though your clinic was concerned about your V-tach enough to call and inquire about it- thank goodness your ICD/pacemaker was there to stop it.
I think my last pacer check showed around 3 years battery time.
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Being a newbie is a good thing not a bad thing. I wish I was a newbie which would mean did not need the ICD/Pacemaker back in 2006. I was put on the ICD/Pacemaker as my EF had reached 30 and was having electrical issues with heart.
I was seeing a local cardiologist back then and decided to get a second opinion at Mayo Jacksonville. There I met Dr. Kusumoto (Director of EP and Pace Clinic) and he recommended both ICD and Pacemaker. The ICD because of the low EF and the Pacemaker due to helping my heart with it's electrical functions. He also referred me (same day) to heart failure specialist Dr. Yip (Director on Heart Failure and Transplant) who recommended I change my medications.
With the fantastic consultations and time spent with me I immediately change my care to Mayo Jacksonville. I have been seeing these 2 specialist at Mayo Jacksonville for over 20 years now. We have gotten old together.
I am fortunate to have a pace clinic and a portal system. Any test done, office visit, phone conversation is summarized and sent to patient via a portal system. You can sent portal message to your care givers and they can send messages to you.
Probably over the 20 years with ICD/Pacemaker got called at home at least dozen times. I even got called at home a couple of times by my heart failure doctor (over some questions I had sent him via portal) and same for my EP doctor for same reason.
I have posted many times with those having issues accepting their ICD/Pacemakers is that I was told to view it as having your EMS team waiting to help you.
For me that has really helped and having my ICD/Pacemaker on the job 24/7 probably means the reason I am still here to type this. I probably have had the ICD/Pacemakers shock me probably a half dozen times when the pacing me out does not work and I get a shock now over the 20 years. Every time it does my team goes over what may have caused it and try to mediate and correct the cause of happening again.