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What does ADDR01 mode mean?

Today I receive my Medtronic ID card.Under model # I have ADDR01.What this mean? I look in abbreviations and only I found DDDR.

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new patient and first check up

Hi all, I am new here.Let start from the begining.My heart rate was slowly going down over the years.Year ago my heart rate was in low 40's.Three months ago I start feeling very weak,tired all day.My heart rate was in low 30's.They did EPS study and everything was normal.No delay in heart,no block etc.Five weeks ago I receive medtronic adapta dual pacemaker.

My pacemaker originally was set at 70 with medium/low setting on sensor.At rest I had 70 but when I make few steps or just walk...

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Any advice ?

Going to try to explain this the best i can. In 2004 i had a St Jude biventricular pacemaker put in. I am now 100% dependent. I have been getting it checked every 6 months up until somewhere around the last year or so when i was told by the tech that they needed to keep a closer eye on it because the time is getting near to replace the battery. I was told to come back in 3 months and they would check it again. So i had it checked again in 3 months, at that time i was told by a another tech that...

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Heart Rate

I have had my pm about six weeks now. I had a slow heart rate due to taking Sotalol for a-fib. A 24 hour Holter monitor test revealed an average rate of 50 and previously I had checkd my own resting rate as low as forty during the day. I don't know what it would go down to while sleeping. At my first pm check in the doctor's office, they turned off my pm to see what I was doing naturally. My heart rate was 30. I was just curious if after being pace 90+ percent of the time at a threshold r...

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Good info on checkups

That was wonderful info about what happens on the chec-ups, and helpful about starting a log. Will do that today, now that I am one week into this new "normal" life that I am living. My first check-up will be Fri this week and now I know what to expect. Thanks.

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Is this normal?

Not sure how to describe this, but the other day I had my pacemaker settings adjusted for the first time. I am going to try to explain to the best that I understand things. My pm was placed for bradycardia thought to be due to sick sinus syndrome as well as ncs related problems. Yesterday he didn’t like something about top chamber working at 90% but also ventricular pacing at 50%. Apparently the ventricular he thought could be what is causing me to still have a lot of syncope and can le...

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re PM settings

I am new to this posting on a list - I responded to a very helpful comment from Frank but just added as a comment rather than a post under recent messages - not sure if I did the correct thing, but Frank if you read this my reply to you is under my original heading of AV delay and turning down outputs - I won't repeat the whole thing here.
Sorry folks.
Maureen

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Wound Check & Initial Interrogation

Went to Pacer Clinic today for the first time. Hoping that this visit was unique? The NA and RN were very chatty...or should I say annoying. Not at all what I expected from a cadiology office, not relaxing. The NA was sent in to explain the self-monitoring system and could explain nothing. Gave incorrect instructions and was actually reading straight from the insturctions in the monitoring kit rather than knowing what she was talking about. I had to ask her to stop and told her I would rea...

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Outputs and AV delay

Hi -this is a follow up to my post on Monday, and thanks to Smitty for his advice (hope you received my note).
Now have a copy of the report from the cardiac physiologist - apparently in order to minimise ventricular pacing she "turned the outputs down and turned of the AV delay". HR was 43bpm so she was in touch with my GP and my metoprolol has been reduced. Hopefully I will now be able to walk up y back yard steps again!! Unfortunately I seem to be extremely sensitive to ventricular pacin...

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Can your pm going off affect the way you feel?

I just went in for my 7 month check up on my PM. $ moths ago, It was being used only 13% of the time. Now its being used 62% of time. He did change the amount of time to allow my heart to beat on its own. For over 2 months I havent felt good, tired,sick, chest sorness.My primary gave me cough surup and antibotic for a sinus infection 1 1/2 months ago and last week he gaveme pain killers and a musclerelaxer for a strain muscle on my 4th rib. I keep telling these doctors I am so tired, yawning all...

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New to pacemakers

Well I am the wife of a 45 year old who now has a dual chamber PM. In august, my husband had 1 light headed experience and then on 11/7 had four episodes in a single day that brought his HR down to 0. Low and behold, in went the PM. Today we went for our first interrogation and I am a little nervous. As soon as the PM was in, other then a infrequent episodes of fogginess, he has been feeling physically well. Today they changed the settings, I guess they increased the time between sensing an...

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Setting change

I just got back from having my settings check. they made some changes to my pacemaker today, understood some of it. they had my settings set for 50bpm, they change that to 60bpm as the low, then he changed something with the response time? As my wife and I was leaving and had got in the car, I told her my heart felt like it was beating fast. she check my pulse and it was 120bpm. she made me go back inside and have them check it out, and it was fast, so he changed it back and I felt better. I cou...

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Self Check

I have all the printouts from my interrogations. Would it say on there what time my self check is set for? Been waking up with RHR in the 120's at night, then get all flushed and sweaty because it's a bit scary.

Trying to narrow down what it could be and someone mentioned it could be the self check.

Any thoughts?

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Problem with settings.

Hello,
I'm writing about my daughter who was born with congenital heart problems. Her second pm was implanted in 2005 and is a St. Jude's 5366. I am wondering if anyone has heard of problems with this pacemaker after 2005. My daughter started having extreme shortness of breath nine months ago. The doctors determined that her aortic valve needed replaced for the second time and they also replaced her mitral valve, as this was her fifth open heart surgery. All went well, but the shortnes...

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AAI-R to DDD-R

I was in AAI-R mode a year, now I'm in DDD-R. Could there have been heart damage done during that year? Slick

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What if there was an app. for that....

I am an industrial design student doing my thesis on the pacemaker phone-checks/ transmitter box. Through my personal experience, being younger and living with a PM for 5 yrs., I have found it difficult to find a working land line that I can use to do my phone checks. With the trend shift in technology moving towards cell phones, I think it would be interesting to see apps. for monitoring your PM. I would appreciate any personal accounts on what you find easy and difficult when using your tran...

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Answers

Yesterday, I had my first clinic visit - full interrogation and report. I had two previous interrogations by my cardiologist; but did not recieve a copy of the report.

Thanks to the information and knowledge from all of you, I was armed with all the right questions, and did recieve a copy of the interrogation report. I now know that in addition to having SSS, I also have complete Heart Block. I also know that I am completly pacemaker dependent.

The interrogation report als...

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Still SOB after 6 wks

Hi, I'm new to this site and have found it so helpful to read about other people's experiences. I had an AV Node ablation and PM implant 6 wks ago. I've had 3 adjustments done and I am still SOB while out walking for exercise. At my checkup yesterday the Dr asked me if I think the PM is speeding my HR up too soon when I exercise or do I think it's not speeding it up soon enough.

I didnt even know how to answer that question because I dont know how I would be able to tell. Also, is...

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Pacer check up

Can anyone tell me what the usual check up time laps is after having a pacemaker replacement
When I had the original unit implanted it was six weeks before it was examined

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pm check update...

I was having quite a few skipped beats over the past few days,so I went to see my cardiologist and tech today.He asured me that everything was fine with my report...he said I had 198 skipped beats since the last check 6 mths ago,he said he see pts.with those numbers in 1 hr..the tech said i'm real sensitive to the feelings...he did'nt make any adjustments,no need for meds....battery still good,so i'm going to try and relax....hope everyone else is ok...

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I am 100% pacemaker dependant and have been all my life. I try not to think about how a little metal box keeps me alive - it would drive me crazy. So I lead a very active life.