Checkup

I got my pm in 2010. Technician says I'm pacing 1% of the time, the needle on the diagram printed out from my pm data showing battery power remaining is all the way on the "full" end, and the pm estimates ">5 years" of battery life remaining - the highest estimate available on this pm model.

Conclusion? May need battery replacement even less often than 10 years (yay!). Anyone out there had their pm for longer than 10 years (which I hear is the standard "max" battery life for pm's)?

8 Comments

oh how I wish

by Tracey_E - 2013-10-12 08:10:27

I would love to get 10 years! I've been through 4 since 1994 and the most I've gotten is 7. My current one is looking like no more than 6-7.

Mine says 15 years!

by Ravenflight - 2013-10-12 09:10:46

I got my Adapta ADDR01 in December 2012. Last checkup it was reporting 15 years- now my cardio says it's more likely 7-8 years but I like my pacemakers estimate better
:-)

Battery Power

by HK - 2013-10-12 11:10:13

Oh how I wish too
I had my PM implanted 7/29/13 and I know from the 3 times I had it interrogated that I am pacing 100% of the time in my ventricles. I guess without it I'd be dead! Not a very pleasant thought.
HK

I got 8+ yrs out of my 2nd PM

by janetinak - 2013-10-13 03:10:08

& now with #3 since 8/11 when in the office last week showed 4+ yrs left. Pacing 100% with all 3. Forget about #1 as that had a lead problem & only lasted 2+ yrs. But with my great EP he got the lead out with #2 put in & all good now.

Janet

Lead Issues

by kermiehiho - 2013-10-13 04:10:10

Yes, at this rate, I'll probably end up fracturing a lead playing volleyball before I have to replace the battery. I hope not though. *knock on wood* From what I've read, lead extraction is more serious than battery replacement.

leads

by Tracey_E - 2013-10-13 05:10:39

Odds are your leads will be fine! I had one go bad. I had room for one more so we just waited until the battery died and put the new one on top of the old ones same time we did the battery. Capped off the old one and left it there. Extraction would have been a bit more complicated but I dodged that bullet this time. Extraction has come a long way in the last few years. Risks have gone way down as the sheaths they use have improved and you have more and more experienced surgeons doing it.

12 years and out!

by herringbone40 - 2013-10-23 12:10:54

I have just had a new unit implanted.My old one lasted 12 years which ids really good.As a matter of interest can anyone educate me about lead extraction.I didnt know it could be done and it is appearing to be a distant possibility for me.

2015 Checkup 1

by kermiehiho - 2015-01-24 03:01:50

Still showing 5+ years on the pm, which the cardiologist says is the max it will show, and pacing 1% of the time. Cardiologist says the longest battery life he's seen is 13 years. Guinness says the longest pm battery was implanted in 1982, and was still working as of 2007. Not sure about since then.

You know you're wired when...

Your old device becomes a paper weight for your desk.

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