PM 2 weeks & tired

• by sunhill
• 2008-07-21 09:07:30
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Hello everyone, I am a 53 year old and I live in Finland. I got my pace maker two weeks ago. My healt has been quite good. But I have been tired during the last 6 months. During one morning I had three blackouts. The last one was a 15 sec heart stop (which was recorded by ambulance people). I also had a strange pain in stomach area which dissapeared soon. Doctors diagnosed FA paroxysmalis & sick sinus syndrome.

There has not been found any special reason for this occasion. The coronary arteries are ok. Everything in my blood is ok. My doctors recommended me a PM. I didn't have very much time to think about this and here I am with the PM.

The implanting looked and feeled quite simple. One of the leads was too short and that is why the PM had to be re-implanted.

There has been some pain in my right shoulder area but now it has gone.

The doctor wants to do some more tests. During the next month I will get the Holter-test. I had a Holter 4 years ago but it did not give any special findings. During the last 10 years there has been a couple of situations where I have had some strainge rhytms of heart beats and I have been in hostpital 2-3 times. Anything special has not been found. (The reason for abnormal heart beats seems always be too much stress).

Now I am wondering why I have been so tired lately.

This club is fantastic and I get much information by reading your messages. I like to read your experiences and feelings concerning the PM, because I didn't have the possibility to think different options myself. After reading those it does not feel so scary any more to have a PM.

Medical vocabulary and some abreviations are some times strainge to me (but dictionary helps).

Best regards
sunhill