@gregkogan
A pacemaker is usually an outpatient procedure and most go home the same day. Millions are done. They even have programs that can monitor you movement and increase your pulsing when exercising.

Having a pacemaker and your heart rate go down means it will react and keep it steady and at the rate your cardiologist want you to be at.

I have a very low HR because of medications and would be in low 40s. So my ICD/Pacemaker paces me at 70 bpm. Why that rate. We found lower bpm I was having a lot of PVCs and we found that 70 bpm was a good rate for lowering PVCs.

I read someone posted his/her ICD paced his heart. And ICD is there to provide shock if needed with tachycardia. It is not a pacing of heart device. ICD can be programmed to try to pace you out of tachycardia. But an ICD is not a pacemaker that paces your heart continuously or comes on at a certain rhythm.

After 21 years with an ICD/Pacemaker and on my 3rd device had a lot of experience (not sure that is good) with surgeries, and how each device works. I am having my 4th device surgery in about 1 year as battery is getting low.