Hi. I'm 3 weeks post ablation today for focal atrial tachycardia. I am feeling very unwell this afternoon (UK). I was ok this morning but since walking over the road to the shops this afternoon, I've had terrible chest pain. It won't go away. My chest really hurts. I've had a few "funny rhythms" too, just 2-3 beats out of sequence. Feel a bit dizzy when I get them. I feel absolutely exhausted yet I've not done very much today. The chest pain goes up into my neck too.

I am SO scared! I know this sounds weird but I'm actually too scared to go to A&E! I keep thinking the chest pain will go off, but it's been there a few hours now.

Did anyone else get these symptoms post ablation? Please help.

Thanks
Janey

 

Hi,
hw many days should i not lift hand over shoulder after pacemaker implantation.
can ny one suggest me please.
AAIR is the pacemaker

 

It’s been over a year now, and my ICD has a substantial scar and the device is raised. Before the procedure, the Doctor told me it would eventually settle down and the scar wouldn’t even be noticeable or a very little line from the insertion location, but after a year and it not settling down.   I asked him about it and he didn’t even look at it...he just said it’s still a new thing for younger people and each case is a little different, not what you want to hear. Does anyone else have a significant raised spot?

 

Hello Everyone,

Just found this site and am very pleased. I hope that maybe someone can give me some advice. I have had my pacemaker/defibrillator for about 2 months now. Everything is healed and doing well, except this morning I noticed that the incission is sore, seems like on the outside and inside too. There's no redness or swelling. Anyone ever experienced anything like this?

Thanks, Ed

 

Hello all,
My cardiologist just called and said that I need to come in and have my pacemaker tweaked. It was the desk that called so she couldnt tell as to the exact reaosn why but she said it looked like it was even set for one beat too fast or too slow. They found this out while I was wearing my event monitor again due to some other epsiodes I have been having over the past year. has this happened to anyone else?

 

I am fifty two years old. My PM was implanted in Feb. of 2009, only 5 days after my oldest daughters funeral. She took her on life at the age of thirty four, ten days befor her thiry fifth birthday.
I started passing out. My legs became limp, and I couldnt stand up. I was admitted into the hospital the day after my daughters funeral. Several test and a week later I came out of the hospital with a PM. My heart rate was dropping below 40. The site stayed infected for two months after the implant. Here I am seventeen months later, the PM site still sore. Cant stand for anyone to touch it. It feels like needles are poking through my skin. When my grandchildren sit on my lap and lay their head on the PM site, I about come out of my chair....

 

Hello, this is my first post on this forum. I just had my 3rd ICD replaced a month ago. Each time, it has taken a long time for the incision to heal and it drains. My doctor has always followed me carefully for infection. This time, about a half inch of the incision opened up, exposing stitches, and drained blood and pus. I called the DR. and spoke to his associate (mine was on vacation) He asked a few questions and told me to keep it dry and covered until I could see my own doc. He was supposed to call the next day. No phone call, but the incision looked better and seemed to be healing so I didnt try to call again, given my history. A week later, it opened again somewhat and more pus drained out, but not as much. Now it seems to be tryin...

 

Hi: Just became a member to see if any of you could help me with a concern I have. Received Pacer 2/26/10. Now I see and can feel a pointy thing near my incision site and just above the actual device. Is it possible that the lead has popped out from it's place in my device? Has anybody heard of this or had this happen to them? My fear is another surgery to correct this if that is what happened but before I tell my parents I wanted to get your opinion out there in the Pacer World. Help please !!!

 

so some of you know my story but for those of you who dont im 24 f who got my first pm in jan 2008 for a-fib, rapid rate, and history of pe's from the a-fib. thinking my pm had helped i started to move on with my life. i then got pregnant in feb 2009. went to the ep in oct for a normal ck up and my ef was 20-25 (prolly from being pregnant) carido myopothy (sp) well they said that my ef should improve with meds with in three months. three months had pasted and it had only gotten worse. 15-20. so they decided i needed to get a bi pacer with a third lead. so i got that in feb 2010. since then i have felt horrible!!!! my ef has went up to 30-35 but i think i now feel worse then i did when it was at its lowest!!!! im not sure what the sings and...

 

I posted July 1 about my upcoming extraction and reimplantation due to a pocket infection. Thought you all might like a real world example of what that was like. I've had my pacer for exactly 11 years and have almost no complications. I'm a very fit active 53 year old male. Extraction was Friday July 16, leads were very encapsulated in the veins, Dr described it as an "arduous task", surgery took over 4 hours and "somewhat" damaged the vein. The next Tuesday a PICC line was inserted in my left arm to aid in home infusion of antibiotics once I was released from the Cleveland Clinic. PICC line team had to call for backup because the line wouldn't go in right because of the vein damage from the extraction, but they eventually got it in. New p...

 

amici ho il mio PM da 2 mesi, mi trovo bene e vi chiedo un consiglio....posso dormire sul lato dove si trova il PM? nel mio caso a sinistra.....non ci sono problemi?...grazie....ciao

 

I have had my pacemaker since 01/2008 in my chest and for the last 2 or 3 days now I have had a pain about 1 to 2 inches away from the scar towards the middle of my chest is where the sharp pains come and go and then at the bottom of the pacemaker about 1/2 to 1 inch towards my breast I have a pain there when I touch that area... When I touch those spots it is like I'm stabbing myself with with something....
The one spot towards the middle of my chest is the size of a nickle and under the pacemaker is about 1&1/2 to 2 inches...
Should I call the doctor? Or has anyone had this type of pain before

 

Hi everyone my name is Sue. I became a member a few months ago. This is my first post, I ve been reading to see if any one has had the pain i do. I had a pm and def with three leads put in july of 2009, a month later i had to go back in to have a led attach to my heart. since then i have more pain before the sugrey. they have set the pm to different settings it doesnt get rid of the pain .i cant sleep on my left side. i wonder can a pm fall out of the pocket its like its half way under my arm. we i went to the Dr they gave me pain med which just makes me dizzy and doesnt do anything for the heart pain. i have a in large heart and a left buddle branch i also have diebets and thyoild trouble. The heart Dr said its not my heart and the reg ...

 

I have already made a decision regarding this but wanted to know what other people think/have done/would do.

Just over three weeks ago while riding my bike home from work (took the long way, was at mile 44) an SUV decided to try and make me and my bike a hood ornament by broadsiding me. After my short, unscheduled flight that ended up with me landing on my head (and I think handlebars of my bike due to the damage there as well) I ended up on the pavement with the following injuries:

Broken Fibula
Torn up knee
Some massive hematomas to my thighs
partially dislocated ankle (one bone isn't where it should be)
very sore hips
broken ribs on my right side
At least one separated shoulder and th...

 

hi, i joined this club because i wanted to know if there was any other people out there that is tortured by constant PVC"S after the incertion of a pacemaker. i only had 2 episodes of feeling like i was gonna pass out last december , for just a few seconds each time. my heart dr didnt try medications or anything... it was like boom he put this crap in my chest and as soon as i woke up in recovery i was having horendous PVC's. he refuses to acknowledge that the pacemaker is causing it. im miserable. he wants to put me onpropafenone hcl and cut back half on my beta blocker. im realy freaked out about it. ive been on beta blockers for 30 years , they helped with the simple palipitation i always had. now since the pacemaker... they no lo...

 

I am a merchandiser and I was at a Wal-Mart today. When I was finished my work a store employee asked me to take the cardboard to the compactor and because he was very busy and I’m a nice gal I said sure. When I got there they had me flatten the cardboard so I began to flatten all 50 boxes. I told them I was new and had never done this before and was there anything I should do or not do or watch out for and they said no. There was a Wal-Mart employee flattening cardboard and he was right in front of the compactor with his big cart. He finished and turned the compactor on. I immediately felt awful and went dizzy and almost passed out. When the machine turned off a minute later the guy walked away and I saw on the bottom of the compact...

 

I have had a pacemaker since April 19 of this year. At first, I felt not too bad but I gradually felt worse. I experience weakness and queeziness in my stomach. I can't do much excercise without having to go lay down. Can't play golf or walk very far and am so frustrated. I was to a pacemaker clinic at my local hospital and the doctor adjusted my pacemaker saying that there was a conflict between the two leads. I felt great for about 3 weeks and then back to feeling bad again. Can anyone please suggest to me what might be wrong. Desperate in New Brunswick.

 

Yikes! We just returned from an outing to the Underground Salt Mines in Hutchinson, Kansas. It was awesome, however not without a few dizzy minutes on my part.

As we entered the Visitor Center, bought our tickets and checked out the information I noticed a sign outside the "ready" room. It simply stated that if you have a pacemaker please tell the attendant. The mines are accessed through a very powerful elevator. An extremely high powered cable operates the elevator and apparently effects pacemakers. I was the last person on the elevator and the first person on. I was not allowed to touch anything on the elevator, the walls or the door. It takes 90 seconds to travel the 650 feet down to the mine floor. My head went to spinning...

 

hi everybody i,m new here i had my pm fitted on the 17th june 2010 haven,t started back at work properly yet as i feel very strange because i have this foriegn body in me plus i,ve noticed that the scar is very red on one side and is it normal to have like a hard lump just above the insition where the glue was . can any body help me and am now getting headaches .

 

I joined the ranks of the many people with pacemakers in 7/09. I have a-fib and tried just about every antiarrythmic without luck. Still had frequent episodes of a-fib, I was on tikosyn,metropolol and looking at putting a third medication with these when I decided to go for the ablation. The ablation went very bad , the MD hit one of the "hot spots" and my heart stopped for some unknown reason and did not restart. I no longer have any function in my lower heart and I am PM dependant. Please think long and hard and get ALL the facts before deciding to go this route. This has been very hard for me to accept even at the 1 year mark.