General exercise

I had my PM implanted in October 2008 for Sick Sinus Syndrome. Before I had the PM implanted I was running around 5 miles every other day. Since then I really have not been exercising on a regular basis but I have continued to exercise. In the past Month I have been more regular with my exercise, running around 3-4 miles every other day (heart rate while running average:140-150 high:175). Since October I have been feeling great (no chest pains, not light-headed, not faint). However in the past week or so I have had a few episodes where I have felt light-headed and last night I did have some chest discomfort. My theory is that the increase in my exercise may have something to do with it even though my symptoms have only occurred while I am not exercising. I will be talking to my doctor next week as I have an checkup scheduled anyway.

I was just wonder it if anyone else might have or had the same symptoms as me.

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by Tracey_E - 2009-02-10 04:02:11

If you are getting chest pain while exercising, do not exercise again until you've been checked out! You may just need reprogrammed but never ever mess around with chest pain. Sometimes as we get back to where we were before and work out harder, the pm needs fine tuned to keep up with us. If they cant' see anything by looking at the pm reports, they may want to do a stress test to see what's happening when you work out.

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