Pacemaker risks use
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My son is 17 year old. I was advised by to input pacemaker by 1 doctor. Another cardiologist said that pacemaker can have side effects like leads leakage which ultimately can lead to heart problems. And other infections as well. They said he is too young to have pacemaker. Has anyone got any experience or suggestions please? Thanks in advance.
Worried mom.
My mother-in-law, who will be 95 is April, was recently hospitalized has several episodes of arrhythmia at the hospital. the doctor recommends a pacemaker. What are the pros and cons of someone her age to have a pacemaker implanted?
I'd ask him why not just put in the pacemaker and skip the rest. I just put a question on the forum myself about something similar. I have no problem with getting a pacemaker.
I really can't see messing with ablation which may or may not work when I know a pacemaker will work and stop messing around with tests.
Maybe pacemakers are as good as I think they are, but my mother lived a very long life because of one. She sure felt better too.
My mother is 83. She has had irregular heartbeat for nearly 20 years and had a pacemaker implanted 3 years ago. Her last echogram showed her EF to be 20% and she has had several episodes of congestive heart failure. She is physically run down.....weight loss, loss of muscle, not to mention depression. Her cardiologist wants to implant a biventricular pacemaker. I am wondering if the benefits will out weigh the risks at this point.
I may soon have to have a pacemaker implanted. I have a 1 cm cavernous angioma deep in the right hemisphere of the cerebellum. I've been told there's a 4%-6% annual chance of the angioma bleeding on its own. Is it required that blood thinners be given when a pacemaker is in place? How does one evaluate the risk of clot formation without blood thinners versus the risk of bleeding in the brain when on blood thinners? A neurosurgeon told me that blood thinners were definitely out.
I have a pacemaker and it is keeping me alive. I am paced at 100% which means if I did not have this device, I would not be here. A "danger", if any, might be the fact that you need to have the devise interrogated every 6 mo. There is a battery life and when it runs down, the device is replaced. I still have 3 yrs on my battery and have not experienced the battery change. I rank this invention right up there with antibiotics.
ll need a pacemaker. If this were going to happen, would it have already? And is there a risk of developing Afib or a different type of arrythmia? Basically now that it's been 6 months and none of these things have happened, am I out of the woods?
You need to sit down with your doctor to assess your symptoms and risks to decide if further testing is necessary. PVCs tend to wax and wane in frequency as you have described.
Is this an assignment for grade?
s a cosmetic treatment which sends a small current through the muscles to prevent sagging, but the instructions say not to use with pacemaker or heart condition. I have inverted T waves - they flip over when i'm on a treadmill, but am not sure if this counts as a 'heart condition' - further tests showed nothing else wrong so I'd kind of stopped worrying about it until now!
Hi, you can ask all the questions you want, even if we've covered them before! We like to point people in the right direction for more discussions.
Whenever I see a new name pop up here, I always click on their name and see if they are truly new or if I have forgotten them. That's how I saw you were on the thyroid forum as well. Lots of people here have multiple problems - having MS doesn't preclude us from having other things wrong too.
The only reason for the pacemaker in my case was to allow the use of more and different drugs to try and control the AFib. I have a natural low heart rate, so the only drug I could use was Norpace, which work for 10 years, but as I got older it became less effective.
So the pacemaker now allows my Dr. to use a host of other drugs. Unfortunately the pacemaker with the drugs only controls the frequency and occurrences of AFib, not the cause but I will take it since I very sympotmatic in AFib.
This seems like a very difficult situation for you and your family.
The best way to begin addressing this question is to ask your cardiologist whether your mother is "pacemaker dependent" or not. Pacemaker dependent means that the heart is reliant on the pacemaker, and without it, the heart cannot pump fast enough to meet the demands of the body. (There are others who need the pacemaker infrequently as a "back-up", for the rare times when the heart rate slows down).
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