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Heart Rhythm Episodes - AFib; Tachycardia, High Blood Pressure

Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Dec 27, 2022 | Replies (112)
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Hi Dana, In reading about your heart conditions I see that they are similar to mine. I have a combination of ventricular tachycardia, bradycardia, apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and some morphing. I have gone for over two years of tests and procedures including every aspect of the heart... Holter monitoring several times, electrophysiology tests, pulmonary, etc. I have had a loop recorder since the first of the year. Next Wednesday, July 22, the loop recorder will be removed and a pacemaker implanted. I'm hoping this procedure will correct some of the arrythmias. From what I have read, a pacemaker doesn't do much for the cardiomyopathy. Am I correct? What determined that you needed a transplant? I hope I don't get to that stage. I'm 73 years old. Thanks for any advice, thoughts, etc.
Dennis

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ch665296f | @ch665296f | Jul 18, 2020

I miss spoked listing my heart conditions. It is some myocardial bridging that i have. Not morphing.

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Dana, Volunteer Mentor | @danab | Jul 18, 2020

@ch665296f Hi Dennis yes we do have similar issues I didn't have bradycardia but the rest I did. Your question on Pacemaker and cardiomyopathy I not sure if it helped for every case but for me I had non specific cardiomyopathy and it was basically an enlarged heart. I had severe water retention due to a virus that attacked my heart and after the fluid built up around my heart and lungs it caused the heart to enlarge which is what developed into Tachycardia and plagued me with arrhythmias. So the pacemaker helped a lot for arrhythmias but as far as I know my type of cardiomyopathy was not curable. But I will say my ef was really low at first and the meds helped get that up to an ok number.
Now for the reason for the transplant was 2 things my arrhythmias got to the point that multiple ablations could not help and I had gotten to the point that the anti-arrhythmia med I was on Amiodarone had become toxic to me. So I was probably going to be hospitalized until a heart could be found. Thank God so much it was not long. Not a pleasant time for me.
Anyway, the pacemaker was a great help I lived a very normal life for over 7 years and a few successful ablations from 2008 until 2015 I hardly knew I had an issue. It was then that my heart was starting to get worse but that pacemaker saved my life more times than I can count. Well, I will say if you're on Amiodarone for a long time it can cause issues also. So in November 2017, I end up hospitalized until my transplant Jan 2018. Hope that helps and keep us updated as to your decision to get a pacemaker.
I also can add that technology with respect to pacemakers gets better all the time. I had 2 total they get replaced every 4-5 years or so for battery replacement and my second one had more options than the first.
Have a Blessed Day
Dana

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