Heart pounding symptoms

• by Stoneyjohn
• 2018-06-06 07:41:04
• Checkups & Settings
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I am 79 almost 80 and I had a St jude pacemaker fitted 3 weeks ago today for blocking, It was set up within a couple of hours after surgery by a technician accompanied a trainee and there seemed to be some difficulties in getting it right but after spending some time they went away saying that seemed to be alright but I had the impreession that they were not fullly satisfied with the results they had obtained. Any way I had to contact the hospital again within 2  o r3 days as my heart seemed to be racing they said this was due to someting caled PTM and made an appointment to see me again almost immediatly. They retested the pace maker  and found it was doing110 beats a minute and and they slowed it down to between 60 -  70 beats a minute but since then I have had trouble where my heart starts starts to pound, I can feel it pounding in my head and I seem to get astrange taste at the back of my throat. I feel very uncomfortable when tis happens as it feels as though my heart is fighting with my pacemaker but after a while it returns to normal and I feel alright again but tired. Is this the part of the body adjusting itself to the pacemaker and will go away in time or should I be concerned? I have another appointment to see the clinic in just over two weeks. Has anyone experience anything similar?