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Can your pm going off affect the way you feel?

I just went in for my 7 month check up on my PM. $ moths ago, It was being used only 13% of the time. Now its being used 62% of time. He did change the amount of time to allow my heart to beat on its own. For over 2 months I havent felt good, tired,sick, chest sorness.My primary gave me cough surup and antibotic for a sinus infection 1 1/2 months ago and last week he gaveme pain killers and a musclerelaxer for a strain muscle on my 4th rib. I keep telling these doctors I am so tired, yawning all...

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New to pacemakers

Well I am the wife of a 45 year old who now has a dual chamber PM. In august, my husband had 1 light headed experience and then on 11/7 had four episodes in a single day that brought his HR down to 0. Low and behold, in went the PM. Today we went for our first interrogation and I am a little nervous. As soon as the PM was in, other then a infrequent episodes of fogginess, he has been feeling physically well. Today they changed the settings, I guess they increased the time between sensing an...

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Setting change

I just got back from having my settings check. they made some changes to my pacemaker today, understood some of it. they had my settings set for 50bpm, they change that to 60bpm as the low, then he changed something with the response time? As my wife and I was leaving and had got in the car, I told her my heart felt like it was beating fast. she check my pulse and it was 120bpm. she made me go back inside and have them check it out, and it was fast, so he changed it back and I felt better. I cou...

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Self Check

I have all the printouts from my interrogations. Would it say on there what time my self check is set for? Been waking up with RHR in the 120's at night, then get all flushed and sweaty because it's a bit scary.

Trying to narrow down what it could be and someone mentioned it could be the self check.

Any thoughts?

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Problem with settings.

Hello,
I'm writing about my daughter who was born with congenital heart problems. Her second pm was implanted in 2005 and is a St. Jude's 5366. I am wondering if anyone has heard of problems with this pacemaker after 2005. My daughter started having extreme shortness of breath nine months ago. The doctors determined that her aortic valve needed replaced for the second time and they also replaced her mitral valve, as this was her fifth open heart surgery. All went well, but the shortnes...

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AAI-R to DDD-R

I was in AAI-R mode a year, now I'm in DDD-R. Could there have been heart damage done during that year? Slick

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What if there was an app. for that....

I am an industrial design student doing my thesis on the pacemaker phone-checks/ transmitter box. Through my personal experience, being younger and living with a PM for 5 yrs., I have found it difficult to find a working land line that I can use to do my phone checks. With the trend shift in technology moving towards cell phones, I think it would be interesting to see apps. for monitoring your PM. I would appreciate any personal accounts on what you find easy and difficult when using your tran...

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Answers

Yesterday, I had my first clinic visit - full interrogation and report. I had two previous interrogations by my cardiologist; but did not recieve a copy of the report.

Thanks to the information and knowledge from all of you, I was armed with all the right questions, and did recieve a copy of the interrogation report. I now know that in addition to having SSS, I also have complete Heart Block. I also know that I am completly pacemaker dependent.

The interrogation report als...

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Still SOB after 6 wks

Hi, I'm new to this site and have found it so helpful to read about other people's experiences. I had an AV Node ablation and PM implant 6 wks ago. I've had 3 adjustments done and I am still SOB while out walking for exercise. At my checkup yesterday the Dr asked me if I think the PM is speeding my HR up too soon when I exercise or do I think it's not speeding it up soon enough.

I didnt even know how to answer that question because I dont know how I would be able to tell. Also, is...

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Pacer check up

Can anyone tell me what the usual check up time laps is after having a pacemaker replacement
When I had the original unit implanted it was six weeks before it was examined

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pm check update...

I was having quite a few skipped beats over the past few days,so I went to see my cardiologist and tech today.He asured me that everything was fine with my report...he said I had 198 skipped beats since the last check 6 mths ago,he said he see pts.with those numbers in 1 hr..the tech said i'm real sensitive to the feelings...he did'nt make any adjustments,no need for meds....battery still good,so i'm going to try and relax....hope everyone else is ok...

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worried and can't get answers

I had a checkup yesterday and my medicine (sotalol) is no longer working. I have tachy-brady pretty much constant. My heart will beat fast, long pause and then beat slow and repeat over and over all day. The pacemaker is not coming in on the pauses fast enough because heart is sending out enough of a signal that it doesn’t step in. The doctor said that next step is trying a last medicine ( I have tried everything else) Multaq or another ablation. This time he would completely ablate the si...

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burst

At my recent pacemaker check the technition said that 4 bursts were recorded amongst other things. What would these be. My pacemaker is DDDR machine. Original fitting took 3 hrs and then a wire was found to be out of position resulting in a further op which also lasted over 3hrs.

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Can you feel it when you're being paced?

Hi
I'm only paced in the ventricles when I'm exercising, but I can feel it a lot and its really annoying b/c its so irregular (it can only go up to 150 though my atria are going up to 190). Just wondering if its normal to feel the pacing in the ventricles? I just went for my checkup today and they're talking about putting a new one in that can go higher because I'm an athlete and they didn't take that into account the first time around. I don't really want to get a new one since I've onl...

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Reduced voltage to leads

I had my first PM check (5 weeks after implant) the tech said she as reduced the power to the leads by a small amount. I'm worried it will effect me as i've been feeling so good since the implant. As anybody had this done and what was the effect. Thank you for any help. Graham

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remote monitoring

if there is any pacers with a monitor that you carry on you belt
or leave at home . I would like to hear from you my doctor provided me with one that sends info from my pacer back to pacer H.Q. every morning at 2 am . and when I question my doctor abouut it . it appears that they dont really want to discuss it . I am beginning to believe that it is just a money making thing for the C.O. and doctor am I wrong. P. S. when
settings are sent back to H.Q. they send the dr that and tell hi...

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First checkup

I'm scheduled for my first post PM checkup, not where it was planted since that is so far away, but got info from the company of a closer place to go. Can anybody tell me a little about what to expect? The PM was placed for 3rd degree AV block, brady in the 30s. I had no symptoms and was pretty surprised when this happened, but now I'm kinda lost in the medical jungle a guide would be helpful.

When I first learned I needed this thing, you guys were so helpful and supportive, I gue...

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Got my settings bumped up!

Hi. I got my pm on 5/3/2010. As I started to heal, I wanted to just get back to my normal, active life. My doctor said, "Be active. Your pacemaker has to get to know you". Well, I really tried all summer long. I had such episodes of breathlessness; and wondered if the hot, humid summer were to blame. After 3 calls to the nurse, she finally called and said I was scheduled to have a breathing test. They never told me the results of that test, rather they called again to say my doctor had ordered a...

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rate response

hi all, can anyone explain what the rate response part of the pm means please. i have pm for second degree heart block but only pace about 7% of the time. i recently had yearly pm check and all was fine except a few early beats. ever since i haven’t felt quite right. i seem to be experiencing rapid heart rate especially on standing but am aware of it all the time even though it may not be as fast as it seems and a feeling of pressure around my throat. i checked and was told no settings had...

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St Jude

This is just to let people know at the last check up I said to the nurse I dont know why you dont adjust these things to activity not just to sitting still. She said there is a ten minute activity test with the St Judes pacemaker which optimizes the rate response. Then she had me walk around for ten minutes and checked it. Might be worth asking about for others. hi from oz hope you are all well thanks for the education.

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