so confused... failure to pace due to lead

• by sam78
• 2009-08-01 06:08:10
• Complications
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• 2 comments

Ok so I am sooooo confused. I had a dual chamber pacemaker put in on June 11. This last wednesday they went in and did the AV node ablation. So here I sit, saturday, still in the hospital. Why you ask???? Because I am having failure of capture when I lay on my right side. It is only a beat here and there. They have been changing my settings around to try and adjust for it and make my voltage high. But now my physician has left for vacation and his intent was to discharge me. Me I am thinking, WTH??? You are going to send me home with failure to capture when I am 100% paced right now??? So the next day a new doctor walks in and says, want me to fix it? I can fix it tomorrow. I hate being the director of my care. If it needs fixed, go fix it. If it will heal with time, give it time. I feel like the new doctor is leaving it in my hands and I dont know what to do. I dont want to do an unnecessary procedure, but I also dont want to have problems because I lay on my side and it decides not to pace at all. Any thoughts?