Good News at 4 month Interrogation!

Hi Edward

by IAN MC - 2015-03-08 08:03:47

First of all , I envy you living in Phuket , although I must say it was fantastic running alongside the Thames this morning here in the UK !

I think that your EP is being incredibly conservative in suggesting that you can't play golf again. Once the scar tissue has formed which embeds the leads in place it takes a helluva lot of effort to pull them out, and a golf swing does not harm them.

Now that you are passed the 4 month mark, your leads will be firmly in place so you can go on the golf course right now , loads of us in the PM club regularly play golf.

For some bizarre reason my putting skills have disappeared since getting a PM but I'm sure that those two facts are not related in any way whatsoever !

Incidentally I have the same diagnosis and the same pacemaker as yourself.

Cheers

Ian

Funny you should say that!

by edwardtk - 2015-03-10 01:03:32

Hi Ian,

I guess the grass is always greener, i find myself envying those living in the UK. I grew up in Henley-on-Thames and used to run along the Thames also...I miss it

Thanks for the advise, i did think my EP (who studied in UK) was being overly-cautious having read some of the other posts on PMC...just wanted to be sure.

I sympathise with your golfing troubles...fortunately for me, i don't think it's physically possible for my putting to get any worse after the PM! :)

I know nothing about PM's really, but the Medtronic Advisa seems to be doing a good job dealing with my erratic HR, most of the time i don't even notice it....and i'm not passing out anymore, which is definitely a good thing!

Thanks again for taking the time to comment, it's really appreciated!

Take care,

Edward

Small world

by IAN MC - 2015-03-11 05:03:24

The run I did Sunday was from Cookham, along the Thames to Marlow; so not far from your neck of the woods

I have done the annual 10K in Henley many many times and once did the Henley Half which included some interesting hills from what i remember ! Still rather be in Thailand though !!

I am very impressed by the Medtronic Advisa , it has an exceptionally good " Rate Optimisation " feature ( make sure it is switched on ) . This means that it watches your patterns of exercising and makes automatic adjustments to some of the settings . So the settings really do improve with time. My cardiologist says that PMs with this feature need fewer adjustments when you go for your check-ups.

I've had a PM for 4 yrs now and, interestingly had SVTs recorded in year 1 but they seem to have disappeared.

I sunk a really long putt yesterday so the putting feature on the Advisa seems to be starting to work at last :)

Cheers

Ian

Exercise

by LeeT - 2017-02-10 17:48:12

Hope your still writing, I had my PM installed 3.5 yrs ago. 

I work out as well, do you still run and how are our work outs.

Thanks Lee