I found some different medical alert bracelets if anyone is interested at www.etsy.com/shop/rosesdesigns. These are less expensive and different than some of the others I have seen:)

 

Greetings: 66 year old with good health history. On 31 Aug I had my first PM implant. No history of heart attack, but a slowly declining stamina with shortness of breath over the past two years. Four days prior to implant, I detected a steady pulse of 37 and reported to emergency. They admitted me to hospital, made the dual lead implant, and released me the next day. Since coming home, (I know, only three days) I cannot walk as far as I did before surgery without exhaustion. Two hundred yards is a marathon with pounding pulse. I know the PM is working since my pulse goes up, comes down, etc. Is it normal to experience greater limitation AFTER surgery and if so, is it just a process of starting exercise as if I were a brand new athl...

 

I am about to have my third pacemaker implanted. I got my first pacer in 1993, the second in 2000 and now will have one in 2010. Do any of you know if the surgeon will have to create a new 'pocket?' All of my pacers have been on the left side of my chest....will they eventually have to move to the other side of my chest due to saggin skin and muscle? Thanks for any info you can offer. :)

 

So I'm building my dream kitchen in my imaginary house with my fictitious big bank account. In the kitchen I'm at the point where I'm adding a cook top. I've had a ceramic cook top for year and love it but now this new fancy induction cook top is out and I am very interested! So I head off to the Samsung website to check out models of stoves, cook tops and ovens. I even go to an appliance store(in real life) to look. I ask about induction cook tops interfering with pacemakers and they said they've heard rumors about it but check with your doctor. I'm not wasting my doctors time asking questions about my dream kitchen...yet. So I fire off an email to Samsung's website asking if there is indeed anything a person with a pacemaker has t...

 

Hey folks, as you can tell from my title, I am new to this forum. Here is a little bio

I am a well conditioned 45 yr old male, with a 25 year history of cardiomyopathy; an EF of arounf 30%. I actually served my last year in the Marines with this issue and didn't know it till I got out. About three years ago I kept feeling terrible, and getting chest congestion. It was finally determined the dilated left ventricle has caused my mitral valave to leak. Now I have a nice mechanical valve as of May 26 2010.

I have recovered very well, and feel pretty good. The only problems I had was a bout with Afib, and was given amioderone. I was hoping for a boost in EF with my new valve, but my echo last week was 15 to 25%. ...

 

Hi all,

I was wandering what is a safe time to leave it before I begin to drive again following pacemaker insertion?
Karen

 

Hbecause of my submitted exercise resultsad dual lead PM fitted a year ago for SSS. Was told it was fitted purely because of slow HR. A year later I found out the rate response was switched (have no idea why).

Returned to gym a year after implant and found HR very quickly went up to 160bpm without much effort. Had Rate response turned off and doing the same exercise my HR crept up more slowly to about 140bpm for the same activity. No problems at all and have no idea why my rate response was on.

I asked when I had my rate response switched off whether my upper limit 130bpm should be lowered/highered because of my results from exercise. The technician said it depended on other factors.

Is it better to hav...

 

So since I last posted, I started feeling like my old self again from last Sunday until today, Thursday pm. No episodes of rapid heartbeats.

Had my nuclear stress test this morning and felt quite fine all the way through it. No problems whatsoever. Then just after 12pm today as I walked up the stairs at home , it happened again. Good thing I am wearing an event monitor for 25 more days and recorded the event.

So during the testing the technician pulled up my chart and noted a 13sec episode of v-tach showed up on my 7/29 phone interrogation. I had no idea. I asked if that was correct. She said yes. Something to definitely talk to the cardio about.

I was able to walk the treadmill until I got my heartrate up...

 

I'm a 38 year old mother of 2 small children and have been told I have second degree heartblock (Moebitz 2) and require a pacemaker. Surgery is scheduled for 13 September & although I have a wonderfully supportive husband and family, I know nobody who has had this procedure. I've no idea what happens afterwards in reality & am quite worried as we do not have family nearby. I know it's very individual experience, but I'd really like to get an idea of the reality of the recovery time and any useful tips. My only symptoms of this are occasional light-headedness & I am grateful they've caught it before anything bad happened, but for the doctors & surgeons this is a run-of-the-mill procedure, whereas for me it's intensely personal and a phy...

 

Hello PM club ... I just had my PM implanted on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. The first couple of days were rough ... soreness in my left arm, weird feeling in my chest ... and of course soreness at the incision. This is day 5 and I feel pretty good ... still a little nervous as what to look forward to but I feel pretty good. I plan on getting back to my daily walks of 2 - 3 miles and hope for the best. Is there anyone out there that has recently had the PM surgery and have started back to exercising without problems ... and can anyone tell me what to look forward to???? Very nervous ... but I want to get back to living!