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I’ve been trying to think how to post this, but I think it’s important particularly for new members to know I’ve had my pacemaker a year and a half and in that time I’ve been fighting an issue of having trouble breathing every time I move my arms I’ve asked on this site as well as every doctor’s appointments. What could be causing this issue? I’ve had multiple test, including an echo a stress test a heart Cath nothing could be found to cause this issue. My primary care doctor sent me to a pulmonologist. They couldn’t find anything there all this time. My doctor kept having the physicians assistant give me the results of the test saying there was nothing they could do. I finally got a little upset with the physicians assistant and demanded to see a doctor because the physicians assistant told me at my age I probably just have to learn to live with it. I was 75 when I had the pacemaker on planet and now I’m 77 I was not ready to accept that when I finally got to see the doctor. The doctor said they done everything and couldn’t figure anything out, but they would call in people from Medtronic the makers of my pacemaker and see if they had any advice two technicians. Medtronic came to see me in about 15 minutes. They had figured out that it was simply the settings on my Pacemaker. They set the pacemaker correctly and now I have no problems at all to think that I spent a year and a half having trouble breathing and not being able to do the things I wanted to do it’s ridiculous so I’m telling people that are getting a pacemaker today. You have to keep fighting but eventually they’ll get it right and people that are stuck seeing physicians assistance. You have to keep fighting to see a doctor cause eventually, the doctor agreed that he didn’t have the answers and was able to push me to the technicians from Medtronic who worked on the pacemaker to get the settings, right I’m sure there are some good positions Assistance out there unfortunately I didn’t have the right one.

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@kb49 thank you for sharing that vital information.