St. Jude model PM2240 Pace maker

Has anyone every felt a vibration ( almost like a cell phone buzzing ) in your right leg? I was driving to the store and I started feeling this vibration and at first I thought it was coming from my truck, I turned of the radio and the airconditioning and kept feeling which made me think it was coming from my truck. Well when I go out and went into the store it started again , it would go in sets of 7 or 8 buzzes then stop then repeat. I called my emergency room and talk with a nurse and she said she had never heard of it before , she took my number and said when a doctor gets free she would ask him and then call me back. Any information would be helpful. Thanks Mike Wood

2 Comments

Ignorance is not bliss

by Gotrhythm - 2018-06-19 13:49:15

Living with a pacemaker is so far outside most people's experience that it can be hard to know what's an important symtom that demands attention and what's not.

Lest you begin to jump at shadows, you would do well to educate yourself about exactly what a pacemaker is located, what it does, and how it functions. Learning isn't hard. There's are Youtube videos that explain with simple diagrams everything you ever wanted to know about pacemakers.

For now, what you need to understand it that the pacemaker's electrical signals travel directly to the heart via tiny leads--wires--that have been threaded through a blood vessel. They go to the heart and only to the heart. They don't travel around the whole body. The signals don't go down the arms or the legs. Nothing that the pacemaker does could cause a buzzing or vibrating sensation in your leg.

I'm sure by now your pacemaker has been checked several times to make sure it's functioning correctly. A pacemaker really is a marvel of reliability. It is safe to trust it.

To answer your question. Yes I've felt sensations like you describe in my legs and also sometimes in my back. I first felt them years before I got a pacemaker, They likely have to do with nerves in my spine where I have arthritis and other degenerative changes.

Whole body sensations after PM insertion.

by Selwyn - 2018-06-19 14:09:00

Having a pacemaker is an upset to your sense of well being. The trust you have had in your body is diminished.  What next? What can you expect?

Immediately after PM insertion there is increaed awareness of body sensations. Normally, these are pushed to the background ( For example,  the mere mention of say, scabies, that horrible itchy, skin mite rash, is enough to make you more aware of your skin sensations...) and so you are more aware of body sensations that previously your sub-concious dealt with, though now your concious self is connected to. 

Certainly your PM will not affect your lower body. Although, I do remember myself asking the visiting doctor on the hospital ward, after my PM insertion, as to why my big toe was pulsatile!

If you were OK prior to PM insertion, all of this extra body sensation stuff settles with time and your own reassurance that your health is actually better off. 

Selwyn 

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