Electrical Like Sensations

Good morning- Just wondering if anyone has experienced this. I have had this sensation awhile back and now am experiencing it again. It is like I am feeling some sort of electrical impulse in my heart. Scary feeling to say the least. I have PVC's at times but this is totally different. At times the sensation is mild and at other times quite strong. I have had a holter monitor on to try and catch these but you know how that goes....didn't have the sensations or when I did they didn't record on the monitor. I know what I am feeling and it is not normal. I have a Medtronic PM with no defibrilator component. Can these PM give off impulses like I am feeling?  Thanks

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Impulse

by Dexter - 2018-05-30 12:49:53

Call Cardiology. Sounds like you need an adjustment. They had to adjust mine when I complained of impulses keeping me awake in the middle of the night. They adjusted the self-testing program that normally goes on while you're sleeping.

Be your own medical detective

by Gotrhythm - 2018-05-30 14:40:58

Your pacemaker has been checked, right? It's unlikely that the pacemaker is malfunctioning in some way and giving off pulses. More likely what you're feeling is  something that your heart is doing. It's not unusual for rhythm problems to change over time, or for your heart to develop new ones.

Here's a chance for you to do some detective work and maybe some character building. Just what you always wanted, right? But seriously, doctors can't treat what they can't see. Even if they believe you, if they don't know what it is, they don't know what to do.

So your part is to do learn what it takes to bring on the feeling. Do research on yourself. See if it correlates with any activity, time, temperature, diet, amount of sleep--and anything else you can think of. 

In my case the feeling varied in intensity, but was sometimes severe enough to bring me to my knees. Most frustrating, it seemed utterly random--until I figured out it wasn't any one thing, it was an accumulation. By sitting and waiting for the doctor to see me, I was doing exactly the wrong thing. To help him diagnose me, I should have been running in place.

Here's the character building part. It's important that you learn to program yourself to react to the pulses not with fear but with curiosity. Notice that you do live through every single pulse. The pacemaker is not causing the problem. The pacemaker is keeping you alive despite the occasional glitch in rhythm.

The better you are at calming yourself, the fewer rhythm bumpytibumps you will have, and the better you will be at reporting to your doctor what is happening.

 

 

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