Hi everyone!

just a quick question, has anyone ever heard about young people who get a heart attack? like 20s? I am 21 now, have a PM (it was because of bradycardia). I am experiencing the symtoms of heart attack. My friend just died because of heart attack and she was also 21. could it be true heart attack at that very young age? or maybe I'm just a hypochondriac?

 

I have recently posted about having PVCs and I am going to see the doc today to see what I can do to at least get some kind of med to reduce these dam things I try to do the best I can to ignore them but its very hard I did have the pacemaker tech change my settings but did not help much at all the lady thought I was crazy for worrying so much but she was not willing to explain what was going on with these I know a couple people on here did and it made me at Least better about it so I hope my appointment goes good today and I start to feel at least somewhat better

 

I have had a pacemaker for five years. So long I sometimes forget I have it. I have been having some bladder problem and yesterday they put me on a Percutaneius Tibial Nerve Stimulator in my ancle. It is supposed to make the bladder muscles stronger. It wasn't until today that as I read through the find print it state to use caution in using it. All day I have been out of breath. Could I be in trouble? Helen

 

THANK YOU FOR RESPONDING. I justcame back from neuro. He couldnt believe i was denied cat scan, he wanted to know if i could change insurance. i told him once a year. ive been on phone with insurance. they dont deem it an emergency. i sent in a letter of appeal told them an ounce of prevention it worth a pound of cure. i guess they dont get it. in the mean time im speaking to department of elder affairs thursday. an appointment has been set to speak to someone. I think the neuro doc will see what he can do. he is unfamiliar with this situation. I was told by nurse at primary doc. office, that the hmos are giving a lot of people problems. My doc. said blame obama care. I dont know about that. things r suppose to get bett...

 

Hi Everybody,

I had my pacemaker implanted in 2010. Everything has gone pretty well up to about 4 months ago. Now I am experiencing very tired legs when I attempt walking up stairs, as in my town house. I went to see my doctor last week and he gave me AMLODIPINE BESYLATE 5 MG TAB.

My question is have you experienced the tired legs, and have you ever been prescribed AMLODIPINE BESYLATE? I would truly appreciate any and all information you can share with me.

My legs are slowly, very slowly, getting a little better. I don't like the side effects, and would really like something better. I am searching.

So, thank you in advance.

Jabezz

 

hi everyone, nice to read about problems that I am having that others have answers I need. Thanks for all the help you have given. I have a question about metoprolol tartrate, I have asked several times to be taken off this med because of the side effects I was living with. very bad!! my regular Dr took me off after 2 weeks of smaller doses, I still am a little dizzy and have blurred vision,feeling a little shakey. is this normal? and how long can I expect to feel like this? anyone else had this happen to them? Thanks a lot for your help.

 

Hi guys. It's been a while!

Been feeling rather dizzy, and a little breathless and weak lately. It happens off and on, mostly on. 3-4 years ago, I could feel the nasty bigeminy heartbeat, and it made me feel pretty bad. I feel like I have bigeminy, but I can't detect it by feeling my heartbeat like I used to, so I can't be sure it's causing my problems.

My question for those who are familiar with bigeminy, what are the symptoms when you have bigeminy for extended lengths of time? What does bigeminy do to your blood pressure, if anything?

Many thanks,,,

Bob

 

Hi everyone

I have a conditions were my EP causes both Afib and Vfibs.
I have had several ablations. I recently been feeling a little strange when walking my dog.

I wear a heart exercise monitor and my heart rate at rest is 70 to 73. When I walk my dog (about a mile) my heart rate is 105 to 116.

Several times lately I have felt a sudden stomach pain and some tingling in either shoulder and elbows. My heart rate really stays around 115. But I get the feeling something is wrong. I sit and rest until I feel I can finish walk.

Any ideas? I had a cath two month ago and I was told NO blockage.

Open to all comments.

Gene

 

Hi

Several years ago I had several ablations done on my heart to block EP. After the procedures the doctors at U of Penn removed my Amindrone and Verapamil.

They replace with Sotolol and Topolol both bete blockers. I was wondering if anyone reading this has experience any side effects. Are you happy with the drug combinations? I seem to be more tired and short of breath.

Hope to hear from someone.

Gene

 

I have had a PM for 1 1/2 yrs and all the Drs have told me how good I will feel.....I am still waiting!! Does everyone feel tired all the time and short of breath when walking more than 30 feet?? I am 59 years old and travel with my work full time and I feel like I have to push myself every step..will this ever get better??????

 

I have dilated cardiomyopathy & have no cough and no swollen ankles - why do I need a diuretic? I do not want to take them as I have enough pills.I have never had any swelling
I value your opinions please

 

Hi, I've had a pacemaker for a few years now. I've recently been diagnosed with congestive heart failure--rats!! Medtronic makes a devise for helping the heart beat because of heart failure. Is this the same devise used for arrythmia?

 

I am having a treadmill stress test next week, 7 weeks post PM. Thing is, in January when I was at my GP for a pulled muscle I brought up that I was breathless walking up stairs and he responded that I was "out of shape"... 3 weeks later I was in the ER learning about pacemakers! (a note: I have been going to the gym 4-5x a week since last September, 50 years old, NO HISTORY of ill health) Yesterday I saw the cardiologist and reported the same thing: breathless after climbing stairs...and HE said I was out of shape! Do you see a pattern? I am fearing that next week they will find something awful. Anyone have similar symptom and how did your test fair? Thanks for sharing.

 

I have a pacer and I want to do my part to stomp out heart disease. I have AFib and have had 4 ablations, one of which was the AV Node.

I just signed up to participate in a heart study where mobile technology, i.e. smartphone apps and state-of-the-art devices, will be used to collect data. The principal investigator for the Health eHeart Study is Dr. Jeffery Olgin, a practicing electrophysiologist at UCSF in San Francisco, CA. I would hope that ALL of you will sign up to be part of the study.

Dr. Olgin aims to enroll 1 million people for this study. These people do not have to have heart disease, just the commitment to participate and own a smart phone. I admit that is a lofty number to achieve but it will be...

 

Help..I am 37 year old female.I have dual chamber pacemaker and 3 degree av block.bout 3 weeks ago I started having palpitations..shortness of breath..swelling at the end of the day..and dizzy fell like going to pass out .Went dr. pacemaker ck showed PVC, at time lower chamber is getting up to 298bpm my bp was 158/101 put me on beta blocker.
I go back Tuesday i am frustrated that the dr does not care I told him how it is impacting my life and he acts like no big deal..My normal dr is out of the country so dealing with he practice partner

I have wanted my husband to take me to the ER but tell myself that if it was that bad then they would have sent to over to the hospital Tuesday when I saw them.
thoughts.

 

I notice last night it beeped four times within about 2 minutes or less - at 3:30 it beeped twice - has any one had this happen to them?

 

Hello everyone,

My boyfriend had a pacemaker installed in January 2013, and he had a very emergent open heart surgery. I am a student now, majoring in engineering and I decided to create a product for people wearing pacemakers, because I can see how incontinent it is for him sometimes, when he has to be careful around microwaves, and metal detectors and etc.

The product is basically a shirt, that has substrate insert that protects the pacemaker from electromagnetic interference, So wearing this shirt, you can be around electric devices and not worry about the pacemaker being messed up. Would you guys be able to help me out to show the board that this product will be helpful? I created this survey, please follow the l...

 

Hi,

A few years ago (four actually) I had an epicardial pacemaker fitted. It really changed my life - I had pulsing in my stomach for a while but that was soon fixed.

There were two options when I had my PM (epi and endo) epi was much more complicated because that had to open my chest and attach the leads to the outside of my heart, but prevented me from having to take Warfarin for the rest of my life.

Returning for my annual check-up, my doctor (who's a wonderful chap and I trust him completely) has told me that the scar tissue on my heart is slowly but surely building up and that I need to have the endo surgery (much easier but need to be on Warfarin).

Now, I know I shouldn't read all the doom ...

 

The local clinic I got my last 24 hour Holter monitor called and apparently, they still can't find anything. The lady said "There were no sustained arrythmias" and the symptoms I wrote in the journal did not correlate to the strip. UGH!!!! I KNOW what I felt, and I have seen arrythmias on machines!! I am frustrated beyond measure. I feel like just stopping this pursuit because no one ever finds anything. This has been my 5th monitor (2 24-hour Holters and 3 month-long events). The doctor has not contacted me about it yet, but I feel like he's going to say that it's all in my head. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm approaching the point were I don't care about it anymore. So discouraged.

 

Hi everyone!

I was born with complete heart block and a few years ago I developed Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (an autonomic nervous system disorder). I am 100% dependent on my pacemaker in my ventricle and 30% in my atrium. The upper limit is 180 and the lower limit is 60. However, during my last pm interrogation, it showed rates of over 200!! My EP nurse at the time said it was "normal for someone my age," but I can't believe that it is due to the fact that I have complete heart block and the pacemaker won't physically let my heart go faster than 180! I have asked my POTS doctor about it, and he never really gave me a straight answer.

I have been put on a beta blocker, but I still have tachycardia. My...