This is me at the wrong settings

ugh

by Tracey_E - 2016-11-07 12:37:30

I hate when they write us off!!!! Paced and safe doesn't mean the settings are ideal, too many doctors don't differentiate between the two and are either too lazy or too uneducated to keep messing with the settings so we can be more active. Can you get another doctor? The PA may not be able to adjust settings. Do you ever see a rep from the manufacturer? My rep gets to the bottom of programming issues better than the doctor. Very few doctors do their own programming, they mostly know how to supervise someone else doing it. 

ADDIEJ

by IAN MC - 2016-11-07 13:05:19

First of all, you are not old !  In fact you are the same age as Hilary Clinton who believes that she has enough stamina to run your country !

There are two possibilities with your running :-

i) this is as good as it gets or    ii )  it isn't .

The only way to find out if (i) applies is to find out what is happening to your body when you get breathless. If you can persuade your EP to wire you up while you run on a treadmill you may find out. To help him ( because diagnosis of the reasons for breatlessness is not always easy ) go out running ,measure your heart rate and blood pressure at that moment when you weaken after a few miles; and give him feedback !

It may be an easy fix with PM adjustments, or it may not. There may be a totally different  cause.

Best of luck

Ian    ( I am an ex marathon-runner who is even older than Hilary Clinton )

Doctor will need to replicate the problem to address

by PaulFromSydney - 2016-11-11 01:32:20

I responsed to a previous post that may be of interest from TL Run

It may just be the settings but the doctor will need to see the issue replicated - you might ask to get hooked up when on a walking / running machine to see what is really happening. See my story

"I had a similar problem where on starting a run the HR would jump to130 then 5 minutes later in would drop. It felt like everything went to lead. I had the doctor hook me up to a running machine (after 2 visits and adjustments) and fortunately the problem replicated. A clash of settings was the cause (I admit I had them adjust settings a number of times previously to allow the HR to get up to 160 not the just 130). Eventually it had something to do with how long the PM waited for my heart to kick in with its own ryhthm clashing with the next heart beat (the heart is beating faster at 160). The PM was reset to reduce this interval and also the sensitivity of how quickly the heart gets to higher rates was increased. The result is the PM stays high for the period of exercise and up around the 130-160 mark depending on how hard exercising. The one downside (which I have not gone back to get addressed because something else is likely to stuff up) is that my HR will pace high 130+ on little movement (e.g. going to the toilet at night) and when stressed. Not ideal and quite disconcerning but the ability to exercise is more important to me."

Good luck

Paul