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Not even remorse.He doesn't lie, he doesn't feel a thing.
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Are you sure that you didn't mean Erotic sessions?? (Boots can be kept on for them too, usual up to the thighs, rest of kit optional)I'm almost almost 71 I doubt a few more erratic sessions will do anything but kill me but by what a way to go & with me boots on too .
Anyway I always wear a tinfoil hat when welding, no problems so far, might make a waistcoat for the extra protection, if I get a PM.
I developed the habit of dropping the rod into the mask, then picking it out with the clamp, as the damp old barn in Norfolk used to to give me tingles if I put the rod in by hand. Kept the rods in an old tin deed box, screwed to the wall, with a light bulb to warm them, even then tingled.
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Close friend is a dentist, he has refered to being licenced to cause pain. My wife agreed after being in his chair.He doesn't lie, he doesn't feel a thing.
He said one day, you are good with an angle grinder, could you sort a problem with my tooth. Tables turned, HAH, I had him in his own chair and got busy with the wizzy grinder on his molar. Very satisfying and now on my CV. The sense of power was pulpable. Bit like the time there were some high jinks in a pool after midnight and blood flowed. I ended up sewing up the unfortunate victim with a curved needle and some sterilized thread out of the sewing box. He didn't die, a plus.
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Erratic is the right word, Using prescribed Viagra ( spinal injury problems ) for the once & only time gave me such a crazy three day long blinding headache my wife was still giggling when she took me to the doctors . The doc also had mirth at my expense saying , " Well It's usually the wife who complains of a headache" .
Cue for my much younger than me wife to burst into peels of laughter once again.
I'm not allowed to have Viagra any more ..have resorted to a super strong hold hair lacquer spray & splints instead .
People with a pacemaker cant enter where I work, due to large resistance welders.
With resistance welders though the field can move metal objects and change the time on your watch, so I guess its pretty strong and could effect a pacemaker.
I suppose arc welding current is a weaker version of the same thing (high current creating a magnetic field), I dont know if its strong enough to cause a problem or not, but guess thats where the idea comes from.
With resistance welders though the field can move metal objects and change the time on your watch, so I guess its pretty strong and could effect a pacemaker.
I suppose arc welding current is a weaker version of the same thing (high current creating a magnetic field), I dont know if its strong enough to cause a problem or not, but guess thats where the idea comes from.
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All good what is said here. but I am wearing an ICD sentence 2012.
I had myself checked while welding with MIG /TIG/ stick. I can weld if I hold the cables 20 cm from my ICD without any problems. so the scare of welding with an ICD is a myth .
if you keep enough distance from the cables to your Pacemaker / ICD then you can just weld.
I had myself checked while welding with MIG /TIG/ stick. I can weld if I hold the cables 20 cm from my ICD without any problems. so the scare of welding with an ICD is a myth .
if you keep enough distance from the cables to your Pacemaker / ICD then you can just weld.
as one person replied, it's unwanted induced currents which are made by electromagnetic fields given off by welding.
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Induced current, stray magnetic field; any type of electric welding will produce a massive disturbance in the electromagnetic field. The "arc" is a superheated plasma where gasses in the atmosphere are being ripped apart by the electric field. Wherever you have charges flowing in an electric field, there will be a magnetic field, they are two sides of the same coin. Hence "electromagnetic field".
There is only one electromagnetic field which is all pervasive. It fills the entire observable universe. When you cause a disturbance in that field it send ripples out in all directions and those disturbances will find the easiest path every time. The shape of a lightning bolt shows the path of least resistance where again plasma is formed as huge electrostatic forces rip the very air apart to allow a current to flow, dissipating that static in a massive show of electromagnetic activity as a flash of light and the unseen magnetic pulse.
Stick a conductor anywhere near that disturbance and it will become a path of least resistance compared to its surroundings and a current will be generated to flow through it. Ask Benjamin Franklin (incidentally, how he wasn't killed is still a mystery).
And there's the rub. Stick an electronic device and/or a conductor anywhere near a welding arc and you risk it forming part of the path of least resistance. The magnetic component of the disturbance in the EM field will pass right through you and that pulse will cause a current to flow in any conductor; rings, jewellery, watches and pacemakers/ICDs.
I have no idea how sensitive the electronics in one of those modern devices is to an EM pulse and frankly, I wouldn't want to find out. Every once in a while, I'll give myself a shock when I forget to hook up the earth return, then of course, there is always the possibility of a fault. Harmless under normal circumstances but potentially fatal for anyone who has an electrode wired directly into their heart...
If I had one fitted, I'd follow the guidelines by the book. Whatever the manufacturer says and whatever the medical advice is. Again I don't know what that advice might be for any particular person, circumstance or device, maybe it varies.
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Adults with a pacemaker can weld at least once, how long they can weld remains to be seen.
Personally if i was in this situation i really dont think i would want to continue doing something that the manufacturer and installers think is unwise
Personally if i was in this situation i really dont think i would want to continue doing something that the manufacturer and installers think is unwise
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My cardiologist wants me to have one and I refused because of welding, especially with AC TIG. Not much point in plodding on if you can't do what you want? I'll probably never see 90?
Plus I might lose my airmiles from being 'fastracked' at the A&E
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Wouldn't like to chance it with an advanced AC set. The square waves give of masses of harmonics, same principle as the early spark gap transmitters. Transmitting on all frequencies known to man
That though, is even a bit before my time.
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My partner has the type that regulates heart beat and keeps her alive as she has had ablations left right and centre .
She had a long list of do and dont’s . She is a student nurse and just being in a room with equipment at the surgeries or hospitals Has a massive impact on her . Don’t ask me what machines specificaly as I couldn’t tell you .
She had a long list of do and dont’s . She is a student nurse and just being in a room with equipment at the surgeries or hospitals Has a massive impact on her . Don’t ask me what machines specificaly as I couldn’t tell you .
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Fast tracked to A&E in the Welsh NHS it was bad pre covid but now it's here , if I were you I'd let your family know where you've buried the money ? ....My cardiologist wants me to have one and I refused because of welding, especially with AC TIG. Not much point in plodding on if you can't do what you want? I'll probably never see 90?
Plus I might lose my airmiles from being 'fastracked' at the A&E
Late Nov 2021seven hours minimum wait via ambulance to Moriston Hospital Swansea. Three hrs. for a paramedic to attend to the house for my 19 yr old daughter who was five miles from the A&E unit whilst she was having an anaphylactic shock to prescribed antibiotic medicine..
I drove 20 blue **** fly miles to get her there ........ no taxi firm would take the fare even if paid for by me .
Eleven ambulances were queued up waiting to take clients inside A&E , daughter seen after flaking out gasping for breath kept in for three days .
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My cardiologist wants me to have one and I refused because of welding, especially with AC TIG. Not much point in plodding on if you can't do what you want? I'll probably never see 90?
Plus I might lose my airmiles from being 'fastracked' at the A&E
What have you got to lose? If your heart is giving you gyp and a cardiologist is telling you you need a pacemaker, one of these days a mild attack might finish you off. I assume you've survived an "episode"? Horrible aren't they? I went through a period of extreme arrhythmia (technically SVT) for other reasons and the first thing that goes through your head is "so is this it then??".
There are ways and means and I think someone has already mentioned a Faraday cage. That is something I strongly urge you to discuss with your doc because you're between a rock and a hard place anyway. You might die while welding because you don't have a pacemaker or you might die with a pacemaker because you're welding. Either way, dead is dead.
Have a chat with the doc and see what they say about protecting yourself from stray EM fields with a Faraday cage. Then come back here and we can help you knock one up.
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Patient: Can I weld perfectly after this pacemaker is fitted?
Doctor: Of course you can, no problemo.
Patient: That’s good, I was pretty crap before.
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The fastrack was extremely tongue in cheek. But the biggest killer is mis-diagnosis. I don't wish to discuss my medical history on a public forum. But I've had a lot of unnecssary suffering.Fast tracked to A&E in the Welsh NHS it was bad pre covid but now it's here , if I were you I'd let your family know where you've buried the money ? ....
Late Nov 2021seven hours minimum wait via ambulance to Moriston Hospital Swansea. Three hrs. for a paramedic to attend to the house for my 19 yr old daughter who was five miles from the A&E unit whilst she was having an anaphylactic shock to prescribed antibiotic medicine..
I drove 20 blue **** fly miles to get her there ........ no taxi firm would take the fare even if paid for by me .
Eleven ambulances were queued up waiting to take clients inside A&E , daughter seen after flaking out gasping for breath kept in for three days .
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The GP system is absolute pants. In my early teens I started suffering hay fever and asthma during the summer, and it was miserable. The GP did next to nothing, several visits every summer, he’d prescribe piriton for a month, which did nothing, so I’d eventually get my mother to take me back, and he’d prescribe something else, equally useless. This went on every year, same meds every year, same misery.
Then one day a mate offered me a puff on his blue inhaler, and my life was transformed. I went to the GP and he said “oh, you can have one of them if you want”
Did it never occur to him to give me one before?And since then (I’m 61 now) I don’t recall ever leaving a GP surgery feeling satisfied that they had actually listened, taken note, or been bothered about what I told them, about any ailment I‘ve had. Their modus operandi seems to be to get the patient shut up and out the door as quickly as possible.
When Covid struck, every business in the country bent over backwards to find a work around.... but our GP system simply locked their doors and made everybody wait out in the car park. Not even the courtesy of a tent to keep the weather off!
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Snap & it really does take its toll over 20 or so years before someone actually listens to what your saying and sorts thing out before those things kill you . But usually by then a lot of other damage /problems linked to the original problem have come to the fore & knackered you as well.
