Sudden pulsating sensation-END

Hi fellow PMs:

After going to 2 first assistance doctors, I finally went to Barcelona Saint Georges Heart Center, where I had my PM implanted. They said that this pulsating pectoral muscle, while not comon, had found to happen every now and then. They fine tuned the settings of a lead (from bipolar to monopolar -whatever it is-) and that was the end of it.
Thanks to all that have answered.
Cheers.

3 Comments

Wow

by Pookie - 2009-07-30 06:07:47

Hi Vicens..

I am so happy for you!!

Something so simple as a setting...3rd try was a charm.

Pookie

I think thats what I get!!

by Rachael - 2009-07-31 05:07:09

Since I've had my latest pacemaker which was implanted 2yrs ago I think I've been getting what you got. I have been to my techs and consultant countless times trying to explain exactly what I'm feeling and every time they fiddle with something and send me away again but it never changes!!! And this has been going on 2yrs!! Can you describe what you were feeling so I can compare.

What I felt

by Vicens - 2009-08-01 03:08:36

It was that my right pectoral muscle -In Spain they implant the PM on the right- was pulsating at the same regular rythm as my heart. And quite strongly, sometimes.
After a while it would subside to begin again after say, an hour. It happened two days.At the third I had it fixed at the Clinic. That was all. The doctor said that one lead kind of "coupled" with a nerve.
Cheers

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