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Did the person who perscribed the Amoxicillin know you have a defibrillator? If not ring them in the morning.
There is an extremely rare side effect of penicillin where it may cause fibrillation which I imagine may affect a pacemaker/ICD's behaviour.
A year ago amoxicillin was one of the reasons my icd went off 61 times, then again a couple of months ago my alarm went off
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