Has anyone had a Reveal (implantable heart monitor) fitted.
Watch this postHi folks, I would like to hear from anyone who has had one of these monitors fitted.
How do you find living with it? Any post insertion issues/experiences, success stories I had one fitted yesterday and apart from being rather sore all seems ok so far.
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I followed Dr's orders and took the rest of the week off work. In all honesty I felt fine apart from a little soreness at the insertion site. I returned to work the following week and could carry on as normal.
Running your fingers over the chest and you can feel where the monitor is, although you can't notice it by looking. The device downloads to the base unit at midnight each night, it has to be in range though of about 2 metres. You do not notice anything happening when it does this. Apparently they will contact you if they see anything amiss that you haven't noticed yourself. So far I havent had another episode, but having one would help greatly in getting an answer to my problem. For those that are interested there loads of videos on YouTube, just search for Medtronic linq heart monitor.