Merlin@home monitor

Does anyone know what it means when the Merlin@Home monitor beeps once and an orange light flashes across it for a couple of seconds. I have a St. Jude Medical 3 leads difibrillator since April 3rd, 2013 and this never happened before. It happened last night and now I am worried as I just had a check up at the end of June and my heart went from 19% capability to 56% since the difibrillator implant.

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Latitude monitor

by flutetooter - 2014-11-02 05:11:21

My monitor from Boston Scientific did that once about 1:30 a.m. It also scared me and I went looking for the pamphlets with instructions which of course I couldn't find in the panic. I pressed the red button and sat down quietly on the edge of the bed. Lighted patient and doctor figure showed up at the left and right edges of the monitor with green waves coming from the patient figure to the doctor figure. The waves then quit and the green center button came on. "All O.K." I assume that I was just absent from the bedroom (pit stop) or working hard on rearranging the bedclothes when the monitor chose to test itself as it does at odd times each night. You can call the person who receives your monitor messages and checks on them daily and give them the time and they can check exactly on their print-out records. That same info can also be gotten directly off your pacemaker in an office visit. If it was something important, you would have gotten a telephone message.

Concerned

by sassylatin - 2014-11-02 06:11:11

This is a Merlin@home monitor and it has never done this since I got it in 2013 so now I am really worried. It happened around 1:30am. I called St Jude Medical and they said to contact tech support or the device clinic tomorrow as I am having their monthly transmit on Thursday. I would have felt something if it would have been a shock, correct?? Has this ever happened to anyone else.. Very worried...

Relieved

by sassylatin - 2014-11-03 10:11:13

Talked to the hospital and to the Merlin@Home Tech Support and all it was, transmitter updating to the time change. Talk about being worried.

What an interesting post!

by Griddlebone - 2014-11-04 11:11:46

One never thinks about stuff like the time change throwing you a curveball like that. Sorry you were worried, I'll bet a lot of people had the same reaction.

You know you're wired when...

You have a shocking personality.

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