Biotronick

• by jpayette
• 2008-03-27 10:03:45
• Checkups & Settings
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Hi everyone this is only my second post but I would like to say THANKS. First of all I could kick myself in the booty for not getting all the info I could about the type of pacer I have, and just blindly accepting that cardiologists would know everything about PM...unbelievable gullibility. Well here is my long story short version. In May of 2004 I had a biotronick pm put in everything was fine with me and the pm until this summer and I had moved to AR from Calif. needed a cardio dr so I found one. My first clue should have been when he pulled out the biotronick computer box and started wiping dust off of it. Anyway I was at that time set at 80 beats per minute. He told me he was going to lower my beats per minute to seventy because the voltage was set up too high and I was wasting battery power, when I questioned him he assured me I would not feel any different. He also made other adjustments, but amazingly when we have tried to get those settings from him his office says they have no record of the settings he made. I started having trouble catching my breath within the week., anyway this was 9 mos ago and thanks to this site I have been enlightened to just how important those little tweaks are. Anyway, until my new EP adjusted the beats per minute I was having a really hard time even catching my breath. Moving it back up to 80 has helped some but I still have breathing difficulty days. He also knows zilch about the Bio PM. Now I have talked to the Biotronick company they assure us they are working at making a valid presence in the south, but I will be driving to Tulsa (about 3hrs. from here) to meet with my first biotronick tech since 2004. He feels like the CLS has probably been turned OFF among other settings being off. Evidently the Biotronick pm has an emotional setting(CLS) and I, not knowing it, was even part of a test Biotronick did to prove these were good settings to have on a pacemaker...never knew this until we have recently begun to ? what in the world is going on with my PM and the not being able to catch my breath thing. I know this sounds like rambling but I am hopeful that getting a Biotronick tech will help get me tweaked back into normalcy. Anyway thanks to some of your posts I now realize that adjustments DO COUNT!!!! Appreciate any prayers on Monday the 31st when I drive to Tulsa. Jackie