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Here's the post.. "I'm sure this topic has come up before. However with technological advances, well times do change. So, it only took the medical professionals 5 years for the diagnosis of Sick Sinus Syndrome. No it's not a runny nose, lol. It's a fairly rare issue for anyone under 70, and causes intermittent very low heart rates, I've been waking and talking with a heart rate in the 40s before, many times, and it's no bueno. Enter sparky, a dual chamber, high tech pacemaker that actually adjust heart rate based on many different factors, breathing rate included. So after talking with the heart surgeon, his concerns were the obvious. 1 Impact to the device, which can cause the device to fail, or worse yet, multiple impacts can cause an infection, not good. My thoughts are a chest plate, maybe like they use with dirt bikes. Heavily padded around the device for extra protection. 2 Dislodging the lead wires that are screwed into my heart. He's not sure either way on that one, however he did say after 6 months the scar tissue should keep the leads in place. Still it's possible it could "rip out" a chunk of heart muscle if it was violently dislodged. I'm not incredibly worried about that part and not much I can do about it anyway. So, yippee kiyay! 3 Rapid deceleration upon opening. Hey, we've all been spanked by a hard opening on occasion. I'm thinking the best thing there is to fly a lightly loaded 7 cell, PD Spectre comes Immediately to mind. I would greatly appreciate any input On this topic. I'm not willing to give up the sport!! Still I do want to mitigate the medical risk to the best extent possible. Anyone out there currently skydiving with a pacemaker? Anyone know a jumper that's been jumping with a pacemaker? Yep, I'm old, I'm in my 50s and I'm ugly too, lol. So please help an old ugly dude out. This retired TI and fun jumper wants back into it"
