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Re: Meditation

Thanks for all your replies. My PM is set at 60. Maybe there's a conflict going on between my PM and my heart rate. I think there's no way to know except if my doc is willing to monitor me while meditating. That would take about 30 mins. Maybe that could happen. My meditation style is basically Buddhist: simply watching my breath. I'm inclined to believe I'm not harming myself by this process. I think I'm still frightened by these hr alterations since I was beaten up so badly in November...

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L@@K!!!!!! Peter N. NEWS!!!!


Greetings everyone,

I have good news of our dear friend Peter N. He is feeling better, in fact Nina reports that he is chatting up the nurses! This is a very good sign! He should be home in a few days.
When he is strong enough, he then will be able to share with us his story.

I believe that Peter would not mind if I say for him, "Thank you everyone for your prayers and get well wishes".

I suggest that we continue with whatever it was we were all...

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Feeling Sorry For Myself

Hello everyone! I am having a bad today and am feeling sorry for myself. I know there are others out there who are so much worse off than I am, but I just can't seem to get a grip. I always have a very positive attitude, but today I have had blacked out because of low blood pressure, and now I am struggling with a rapid heart rate that noone can explain. I thought that I was finally getting my health under control...with my pacer and meds, I have been doing really well over the last few weeks......

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I'm a new member....

Hello, I just wanted to send out a posting because Im new on here and I really havent been on any kind of site like this before. I wanted to just maybe get some advice or just chat with people who had the same or similar condition.
Well a little about myself..... I am a 25 year old female and I have a pacemaker and I had my first one implanted when I was 5. So I've been living with it for awhile obviously. I've had about 9 surgeries. I've had pacemaker changes, lead changes, I have even br...

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to-night

i am praying for peter.nash. i lost my father 10 years ago and i was very close to him. it was 1998. he had chf and pneumonia for the 3rd time. it was a very difficul time for me. he had talked to my brother and me about his end of life wishes. i did not think we would have to act on them. he had been admitted for the 3rd time with chf and pneumonia. he was 87 . yes he had had a full life. i was working one floor below him on phsychiatry. i was called to say he had been admitted. his family dr....

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questions about interrogation results

greetings all:
i just had my first interrogation today and all appears very well. the medtronic adapta is performing excellently and i requested a printout which i learned from this site to do. a couple of questions:
one-my lower rate is set at 60bpm and the rate response is on. what does dectection rate 175bpm mean as well as upper tracking rate 150bpm.
two-my activity thershold on the rate response is set at medium/low. does this mean that it will activate quickly to increase my...

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meditation

I'm a new member and a new pm host. I went to the internet to find out about what's happening to my heart/pm when it starts jumping around when I get to a certain point in meditation. It's pretty clear that it's my heart rate going down and kicking in my pm. I've been persisting in the meditation and it seems to settle down, but it occurred to me that doing this might not be good. Googling found a couple of ads for meditation CDs that advised not to use them if one has a pm.
I'll be...

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V-tach after pacemaker

I got my pacemahker last June and thought that I was "fixed". It took me awhile to adjust to the idea that at age 39 I needed a pacemaker but reading everyone's messages here made me realize I was not alone nor was it that unusual for someone my age. I thought when I got the pacemaker that I would suddenly have abundant energy to exercise. Well it definitely helped but it was no quick fix. During an interrogation of my pacemaker about 4 months after I got my pacemaker it was found that I was s...

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Trains

Hi! I was wondering if anybody knows if it is safe to ride on trains with the pacemaker. I am taking a trip to Chicago very soon and was just wondering about if I will be able to take the train to the city or if I will have to do the drive. I know it may be a odd question but I know nothing about trains besides they save time.
The only thing that I do know is that kid trains have magnets on them. Horrible I know!
Thanks!
Tammy

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Angiogram

Hello Folks,

I’m sure many of you have heard me during the past year complaining about my problem of exercise induced (my description, not the doctor’s) shortness of breath and an irregular heart beat. Now the doctor wants to perform an angiogram and I go to Scott & White at 7:30 AM on Monday, 2-18-08. From information obtained from that procedure they will:

1 - Do nothing more, or
2 - Perform an angioplasty, or
3 - Perform an angioplasty and implant a stent, or...

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Pressure in chest due to flu

Has anyone got the flu? If so has anyone been experiencing pressure in the chest and want to pass out, as well have no energy? Would it affect my pm?

Also I have another question, does anyone have an enlarged liver? Please pm on that one. I am curious on what kind of sypmtoms you are getting from it.

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Want to chat?

ajones
Pacing13
Suze

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Travel Insurance in Canada

I joined this club for my mom who has a defibrillator and travels alot, she is scheduled to go to Las Vegas in April and UK in September. She has gotten the ok from the doctors to travel but needs to acquire travel insurance.Her defibrilator went off when she was in the US in November and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. She just received a bill for 800.00 for the ride. She has gotten the ok from the doctors but Anyone from canada have any leeds or companies that we can call ...

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Some Good News!

Well, it has been about a month since I went in to see my EP about getting off the Toprol XL. He said I had to take 25 mg daily for a month (cutting it from 50mg) then come back in to see how I and my pacer was doing. I had the check today and the pm is great and so am I. No SVT detected either! YAY! So, I have to take a 12.5 mg tablet tomorrow then I am off the Toprol XL until April 11th!!! When I go back in to see my EP in April, he is going check the pm again and make sure I'm okay and...

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happy valentines day!!!!!!!!!

happy valentines day to all my pacemaker friends even marty who lives in western canada and by now is probably ready to wring my neck over politics.lol lol it is not a good subject that and religion but happy valentine's to you to marty. jessie

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Secondhand Smoke

Does second hand smoke bother your pace maker. my chest gets all tight. It comes from a down stairs apt They moved in just when I got my pace maker, and Ii have been suffering ever since. Thanks for reading my post, and Happy Valentines' Day.

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Decision to make

I have had my PM for 1 1/2 years now. It seems that I now have a cholce to make and I could really use some advice. I know that I should call my EP, I am hesitant at the moment.

For the past year and a half, my PM was set to
DDD mode where it paced my ventricle due to intermittent second degree heart block. I recently wore a monitor for two weeks and found out that I feel pretty good with the PM set in VVI or as I like to call it "backup mode" with the PM set to kick in if my...

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"I AM SPOILT"

Hi all you lovely ladies well ...I hope you have a lovely Valentine's Day.....Roses..chocks..diamonds or what ever floats your boat.

As some of you know I have been not so well this week. so My wife Nina has had to run around after me "more than ususal"
and as she went out the door to work this morning and I was on this page ...she said I BET you won't tell all your lady friends in that pacer club how spoilt you have been this week with me looking after you... she seemed to thi...

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Postponed till 2/22

Thanks for the response to my inquiry.
I found out today that my PM will not be inserted untill next Friday, instead of tomorrow (doctor is sick).
One more question. My regular cardiologist told me I would probably stay in hospital overnight, however, the cardiologist doing the insertion says no, unless there is some complication. What is your experience with this?
Thanks, Doug

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How a pacemaker is implanted

Several have asked about the procedure of implanting a pacemaker. I just ran across the surgeons O.R. report that took a bit of doing to get. Though you might be interested.

DESCRIPTION OF PROCEDURE: After informed consent was obtained, the patient was take to the operating room where the area in the left clavicle was cleaned and prepped. A venogram was done to locate the left subclavian vein. Needle, wire, then introducer and then pacemaker wires were introduced into the left subclav...

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In fact after the final "tweaks" of my pacemaker programming at the one year check up it is working so well that I forget I have it.