P.S. Guy: unfelt shocks and ATP (was Re: Re: Amiodarone dose)

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Usually one gets only one zap the way you mensioned. But if for one

reason or another you get more than one in a row (during 24 hours),

then the cardios want you in to monitor and eventually help stabilize

your heart rhythm. I had another zap in the hospital and so I was put

on amiodarone IV (intravenous) for 24 hours. That helped.

I had my my ICD implanted in March -06 and these were my first zaps.

Janne

> >

> > i forgot to ask. In the bit of time before you passed out and then

> the ICD

> > provided its gentle " therapy, " I asked if you felt panicked in the

> normal

> > sense, and as if you were fainting from panic. Is this how it feel

> is you

> > die because you don't have an ICD? So the death is pretty painless,

> I guess?

> > I'm not saying anything positive for death, I'm just saying it sound

> like

> > you just feel panicked for a second then you pass out and fall down

> and then

> > you're gone. Thanks.

> > fel did befdafainnomral aked is that gentla

> > Guy: unfelt shocks and ATP (was Re: Re:

> Amiodarone dose)

> >

> >

> > Guy,

> >

> > The shocks you describe where you seem to be saying that you fainted

> before

> > the shock occurred, what did that feel like? Were you scared or

> panicked for

> > a time before you passed out? Did you feel your heart racing the

way we

> > would if we were just normal and we were having a panic attack?

> Thanks you.

> >

> > second, I forget what is ATP. I went to te gloassry in ZAP FAQ, and

> it's not

> > listed there. what is it. Somethng xxx pacing?

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > something very scarcy scarcy befor3e berore a seconed

> > ----- Original Message -----

> > From: " Guy Scardina " <guys101@>

> >

> > ,

> > Believe it or not, I have never felt a shock. During the first year

> > after I got my ICD I had two or three shocks but my heart rate was so

> > high that I passed out before the shock. I remember one shock

> > happened when I was taking out the trash. I had enough warning to sit

> > down on the kitchen floor and the next thing I remember was laying on

> > the floor half in a daze, wondering if I was dead or alive. Another

> > happened while I was walking and also had enough warning to sit

> > before I passed out. While sitting on the curb after I regained

> > consciousness a guy in a Corvette stopped and asked if I needed help.

> > It was nice of him to give me a ride even though it was only a couple

> > blocks to my home.

> > The shock that I received last summer was during the night and I was

> > asleep. I woke up after it happened and realized that something had

> > just occured but was not certain what it was until my next

> > interrogation.

> > I think somebody already explained what ATP means. I usually feel

> > them and hope they do not escalate into a shock.

> >

>

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