I had a defibrillator fitted in November 1st, 2018 ,2nd November went home no problems to report, just gotta take it easy for a while, attend cardio rehab once a week, chin up you'll be fine
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I was having symptoms of dizziness, skipping heart beat, and fatigue. I kept asking the doctor to check out my heart. He said we could put you on an event monitor to wear 24 hours a day but most people have to wear one a month and rarely capture the skipped beats or whatever the complaint. When I began to feel like I was going to pass out, he decided to go ahead with the heart monitor. So I went to cardiologist and he wanted to do a lot of test first and they were all negative. He put the monitor on me and said if there wasn't anything on it in two weeks, then we would leave it another two weeks. Within two days the company was trying to call the doctor to tell him that I was in second degree heart block. This is where the electrical impulse is interrupted along its path from the atriums to the ventricles. Sometimes the ventricles don't contract as they should and also my heart beat was very low especially at night when I was sleeping. Having the pacemaker inserted was no problem. They heavily sedate you and numb the skin and you don't really feel anything or see anything because you have a big drape blocking your sight of the area and you are sleepy and don't feel anything. I was expecting to be feeling so much better but I didn't for almost a year. I still have times where Im dizzy and very tired. The reason is Im still in a heart block mode and the only thing my pacemaker does is keep my heart from going below 60. I was thinking that it would cure my block but it doesn't just keeps it from stopping to beat. I have a new apple watch my girls got me and it does an two lead EKG and I run one of those when I feel weak and dizzy. I can send a copy to my doctor if I need to or print him off a copy. ITs very cool to be able to keep up with my heart rate and it graphs out my heart rate when Im asleep and this is reassuring to me that my heart is not going below 60 meaning my pacemaker was failing to do its job. I cant feel anything when it paces the heart to contract, and they do an interpretation of the pacemaker every three months. I have a machine that looks like one of the old cell phones and you lay it over your pacemaker and push a button and it down loads all the information to the heart clinic place where they interpretet the functioning of the pacemaker. This is reassuring but Im glad to also have the watch to make double sure. The battery is checked and you are supposed to have three months notice when it needs replaced. It is supposed to last at least ten years. They don't replace the pacemaker just the battery. I don't have a defib, so cant tell you anything about that.

Hi have had one implanted 18 months ago, everything fine, have had no shocks so all well, been a lot better since I received it x

I had in ICD put in after total heart failure. It has made me feel a lot better. Only thing I hate is that its bigger than i thought. It rubs against my collarbone at times. But it keeps me alive!!

I just had one put in and don't even know it's there once the swelling goes down. Takes about 1 hour.