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Pacemaker recipients: Looking for support from others
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Nov 13, 2023 | Replies (413)Comment receiving replies
During a botched oblation for tachycardia I was put into heart block, which necessitated a Medtronic pacemaker. Then a small loose part caused pericardial bleeding and we had to do another pacer. After all that drama in 2012 and the fact that I felt like they destroyed my heart, it is a traumatic memory yet today. And I regret having agreed to an oblation. I still needed another sinus node oblation but had that in MN.
Mostly all is well now except for three things: 1) when washing under my left arm or applying deodorant any jiggly movement will set my heart rate racing 2) same when walking and hitting a bump or hole 3) same thing happens when I clap my hands as in applauding.
If my pacer were to be set lower there would be too much of a lag in adequate response for say, biking or swimming.
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shortshot800 Nancy........Eileena, you didn't say how old you are but it doesn't make any difference. I received my pacemaker when I was
73. Now I'm 84 and I feel great and am glad I have it. I just got through with five sessions of radiation for the cancer in my right lung. I also
have cancer in my left lung that nothing will cure. I figure that if my cardiologist tells me that I need a pacemaker, I am paying him to take care of me, maybe he could be right and I would have it done. That is what happened ten years ago. Just a thought, perhaps your doc is right! Not doing what your doc says could be a costly mistake. Food for thought.
I'm 67. I do not want a pacemaker yet. It is a future thing, but the doc knows eventually it will be done. I had a quad bypass on 7-24-15, almost 2 years ago. i go to Scripps Clinic and he is one of the youngest ones there, some liken him (at the last heart failure group meeting) to Dougie Houser as he is so very young. He is gifted beyond his years.
Last year I began taking a supplement used world wide for heart failure, but not prescribed by our own AMA docs. it is Hawthorne Solid Extract, a viscous liquid, not a solid like a bar of chocolate. My cardiologist is aware I take hawthorne. After I began taking that supplement my left Atrial went from severely dilated to moderately dilated. So...as you see, it is not yet time for a pacemaker.
I climb stairs, today I managed 10 flights, these are at work, I could take the elevator, but find it is not reliable. I only climb them so I can get to my shop, so I can go get some hazmat needed to do jtasks and th chemical is kept on another floor. Some days I manage 11,000 steps according to my step counter. And last year did the 4.1 mile Heart walk her in San Diego, but this year I will do the shorter one.
His and my concern is that my heart rate drops to 36 after I manage to go to sleep. But...I have bradycardia, with a resting rate of around 45 BPM, so dropping 9 BPM when I go off to sleep is not as bad as what you might be thinking. One of the things that drags my heart rate down like that is Coreg. It is known for slowing the rate in that manner, but without it I suffer bad migraines with aura, so caught between rock & hard place.
I am wondering about the actual size of a pacemaker and don't want a large bulge on my chest as it makes me think it will look like I have a third boob. Please don't laugh at me, but just think about a bulge on the chest above my actual boob there. I guess I am a bit vain? LOL!
Thanks for your concern.
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I just wanted to reassure you that in terms of bulging , I hardly even feel my pacemaker and no body has ever even caught on that I had a pacemaker. I had bradycardia as well as complete heart block with a rate of 42 bmp, I'm so glad my cardiologist had me get an implanted loop recorder which after a years time captured the problems I was having. I know it was by divine direction that I have this pacemaker, and grateful to have it because it means I can keep living to serve God another day.
shortshot80.....Nancy..... My pacemaker is aprox one inch wide and same long. the wires from it I can't hardly feel. Also it is the left side of my chest above my breast. It isn't noticeable and I can wear anything I want. "As a elderly lady I don't often go to a "King's Ball" so it doesn't make any difference what I wear. Now I suppose that if I wore a bikini no one would notice. Yes I see it but who cares?
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Your post makes me so happy that the ablation I had for a single PVC site was successful. I had them so very bad, 20 time a minute, that I was refused to donate blood. Mine went very well. My EP kept me in hospital overnight as he does with all his patients and have not had any repeat offenders. I too have a Right Branch Bundle Block, however I have no idea what I should be seeing in the way of symptoms, I just know this due to it being stated in my records and the EKG readings I often get to see. My cardiologist keeps telling me he thinks I need a pacemaker, but I keep telling him I really don't yet need one.