Heart device recall by Guidant and Medtronic

[Twilight008]

They are obviously defective, and yet the people making these devices continue to make these machines, killing off people. My neighbor as well as my grandmother encountered such a fate, and her health began to deteriorate immediately upon implantation. Please, if you can, do NOT get this device and spread the word. People are dying!

[blite13]

@Twilight008 I have had 3 of these devices since 2001, ALL 3 HAVE BEEN DEFECTIVE. I am in the guidant lawsuit, I have had unexplained shocks, I have had a battery die when it was showing a 1/3rd still available. It warned me once, if I had been asleep while it only gave one warning, I would be dead. I have had events where I was shocked 4 times in a couple of minutes, twice. I have had shocks that set my heart rate so high I pass out and get shocked again while out. Doc couldn't explain why.

[Samwithus]

Our granddaughter was 3 days old when she had a Guidant pacemaker with a Medtronic lead. Within 2 weeks her doctor had concerns on the performance of the pacemaker. Guidant never got back to him and 14 months later our granddaughter died. Guidant never tested the pacemaker with the Medtronic lead. Guidant never told the FDA or the doctors. Companies like these need to put people lives over profit.

[123suzieq]

I have this medtronic device. Keep me in your prayers

[michelverheughe]

I got a Medtronic ICD implanted three weeks ago here, in Norway. My friend, listen to your doctor and not to the news. No one is wishing our death; they do the best they can. Half a century ago you and I would be six feet under by now. Live well and be happy.

[blite13]

@michelverheughe Listen to EVERYTHING, do not trust your doctors like they are the saviour of out lives. they work for people above them and they try to keep THEM happy before they will try to keep YOU happy. These things are implanted without our consent, they tell us we HAVE to have them. Have you heard how much people received as far as compensation for being implanted with defective devices? $500.00, the lawyers are making HUGE AMOUNTS. We are just experiments, it's disgusting.

[BluelightSpike]

I have a Guidant device, how old r u?