Mystery Shut Down

• by PeggyR
• 2009-10-22 07:10:51
• Complications
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Weird happenings here. I have home monitoring for my PM, sends report to pm mfg every 24 hours. Last report went on 9/4/09 at 2:00 a.m., which is correct timing -- but for some reason no more reports after that. They finally contacted me 9/28 to let me know that reports were coming in, sent me new monitor. That one did not work either. Went through several days with the pm tech on the phone with let's try this, wait and see if get report -- nothing.
Finally yesterday a.m., on phone with tech, mentioned getting fluttering in upper center of chest when I would lay down to go to bed; also having muscle pain/tenderness in arm during the night when I would go to move left arm, had to help it with right arm. Had already seen family doc on the arm problem and was working with phys therapist, which helped about 50% of the left arm problems-- thinking might be caused by corner of pm shifted almost to left armpit.
Anyway tech said if I was her family member she would strongly suggest I go see cardiologist -- called them, within an hour they schedule me for pm clinic and then meet with doc. Come to find out sometime after the last report on 9/4 and prior to 9/5 my pm went into safe mode and was only working on the right lead, also shutting off the little reporting unit within the pm that marries the home monitoring system.
Looking back on the last couple months, I have been dozing off in the evening more than normal, fluttering in chest, maybe not quite up to normal but nothing I could really put my finger on. PM was only working at 50% instead of the 100% that I require it.
PM tech and mfg tech together set me to factory specs so to speak. Guess I didn't realize how out of sorts I felt until they fixed it, I could tell the difference last night, finally slept the night through and felt overall good feeling today.
So difficult to put symptoms together that might lead one to pm problems. Still have no idea what caused it to shut down, only worked on right lead by itself. We have thought and thought and can't think of one thing I came into contact with that entire weekend. Weird stuff, gremlins, ghosts? Oh well, fixed for now.