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advice needed: fatigue, nausea, pain

hi every1 i need some advice please ive been getting extreme fatigue, nausea, stomach pains & skipped periods. i have a-fib, sick sinus syndrome, mvp & a pacemaker. the above symptoms have gotten severely worse & non-stop.

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Tikosyn

Hi All,

I had my PM implanted in November 2007. I feel fine...minus the shortness of breath, but I have started working out about 2 months ago...and feel even better. However, when the PM was first implanted, I was being paced about 20% of the time. When I went for my last two check-ups, it now appears that I am being paced 100%. My doc says that this can be fairly common. Since I feel fine, except for some shortness of breath that I can overcome if I just keep exercising, my doc reco...

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Diltiazem

Doc just prescribed Diltiazem tablets, 120mg for me to control spikes in heart rate. Is anyone else on this med and if so any side effects? I've already research online and know would/could be different for each person but just looking for input from those that actually take med.
Thanks

Peggy

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Neurologist and heart health

Has anyone here discovered a connection between our nervous systems and our heart issues? The more I research the more they seem very connected.

What got me thinking about this was my newest diagnosis of spouts of inappropriate tachycardia. It doesn't happen all the time. Just pretty much when I m upright!. For example, if I am on the couch...I'm fine. RHR is well within normal range. But if I get up and go to the bathroom for example-my RHT will hit the 100's or 140's at school walki...

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low pulse with medicine

HI everyone :)
I have some questions for you...
I am taking the medicne Metoprolol once a day 50mg
and have been on it for about 3 weeks ..I have noticed my pulse going down into the 50's alot - then coming back up and staying at around 68 or so...my lower limit on PM is set to 50
I asked my Dr about this last week..becuz when my pulse goes down I feel like I use to before the PM was installed..so he suggested that we set the lower setting at 60 and try that...my upper limi...

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Cough and fluid

I just had my first pacemaker implanted last week. I am taking Verapamil and Sotalol. I have developed a cough with lots of phlegm. I am wondering if anyone else experienced this or if I may have just picked up some type of chest cold while at the hospital. I am going to my primary care physician tomorrow to get checked but I am a little concerned.

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Mitro Valve Prolapse

Does anyone have experience with this? My GP had me lay on my left side and said he heard it. Said it was nothing to worry about. Had an echo done several weeks later and it didn't show.

Have been trying to get to the bottom of "what" I am feeling. I am frustrated and feel like I am not being heard. I have worn 2 halters already and PVC's, PAC's and skips showed up. No MVP.

But it really doesn't help me. At times when I feel my pulse, I can feel a slight pause. Doctor said...

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Internist Checkup

Well I just came back from my monthly visit with my internist. I was concerned because I am still experiencing some lightheadiness since getting he pacemaker on 2/4/10. Well at the last visit she explained it may be caused by my circulatory system adjusting to my higher heart rate. Today she did a cardiogram, heart rate is 70, and is stopping my hydrochlorthiazide ( water pill) and potassium supplement. The water pill can cause lightheadiness and we will see if this helps.

She also wa...

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Missing beats with pacemaker

Hi my name is Caroline I have had my pacemaker for over 3 years now for Bradycardia I also take 2.5 mg Beatablocker everyday for my proxymol heart palpatations
I feel like I'm missing beats on mostly every 15th second around the clock. Been very busy and felt fine but now resting i'm feeling a pause and then a thud back into rhythm I go abit breathless when this happens!! Is this normal or is my PM faulty?
I'm 26 tomorrow and want to go out and have fun and have a few glasses of wine l...

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New to the Club

Hi Everyone,

I am new to the Pacemaker Club. I am 55 years old and received my pacemaker 11/19/09 after being diagnosed with bradycardia. I do not know my "official" diagnosis, i.e. sick sinus, etc. I just know I was fine most of the time but began experiencing palps with passing out beginning in February 09. After many trips to the ER and my physician, who told me everything looked fine, my boss finally put me in touch with his cardiologist after an episode here at work, and aft...

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Metoprolol 50mg and doing good:)

Hi everyone - just wanted to let you all know that so far I am doing good with this medicine - take it once a day at nite with food - had some dizzness with it - that has gotten better
some little quirks sometimes go on - but for the most part
things seem to be looking up :) It has been 5 months since I had my little friend installed:) I now move around better - arm is still numb-but that is getting better too.....have done lots of gardening and walking with my hubby and dogs - so I...

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FDA Approved MRI compatible PM - Medtronic

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/183041.php

Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee has voted unanimously in favor of approval with conditions of the Revo MRI™ SureScan™ pacing system designed as MR Conditional, or safe for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems under specified conditions. MRI procedures are not recommended in the United States for...

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Medicines Containing Statins

Many of us on this blog are taking cholesterol lowering medications The following is about just one of them ( Simvastatin) but it has long been known that a ALL medicines containing statins, in any form, have the potential to cause muscle pain and other problems. So if you have muscle pain or problems you may need to talk to your doctor.

FDA Warns of Increased Risk of Muscle Injury with High Doses of Zocor (Simvastatin) (80 mg)

March 19, 2010

Simvastatin is so...

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Warfarin needed

I am not a pacemaker recipient (yet), my question is will I also be using Warfarin when do go to a pacemaker? I am a bradycardia patient.

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am not satisfied with hubbys consultant

hi every one hope u all well been a while since ive been on here ,
well we went for hubbys hospital cheak yesterday not pm cheak it was a over all heart cheak up due to merchanical valve and pm ,well ive never had a consultant ask a pataint why he had surgury wen he had all the notes infront of him ,aslo before christmass hubby had a nuclear heart scan ,due to him having some cheast pain ,well glad to say that was all clear and doc recons cheast pain might no be due to heart but then went o...

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Warfarin sensitivity

A Reuter news report of today starts like this: Use of genetic screening on heart patients helped cut hospitalizations related to the widely used blood thinner warfarin by nearly a third, according to a large study that marks a step forward in the fledgling field of personalized medicine.

The news source is Atlanta, USA.

The news report informs of two genes, related to Warfarin sensititivity.

Anybody with knowledge of the gene test?

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Metoprolol 50mg

Hi everyone :)
Just some quick questions
what is this medicine? is or has anyone been taking this?
if you are or have what kind of side effects are you having if any
and do the side effects ever go away?
I may have to take this.... so could you post for me
Thank you once again :)
Blessings
breezy

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In doubt

Hi everybody:This winter I've taken, as well as other checkings, a colonoscopy. It wen Ok, but they found a small (6 millimeters) polyp the doctor did not dare to remove, as I had told him not to use any electrical device on me, because of my pacemaker.
I told my cardiologist, the one who did the implant,(we live in different cities) what could be done, and he said if was question of getting another colonoscopy. The day before it, he or his assistant -(the one who checks my PM) would place...

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Beta Blocker Users...Please Respond

How does a beta blocker actually work? I understand that it stops too much adrenaline from making your heart rate go too fast...but I guess my question is...how does it know to do that?

Is the drug idle in your body and then "comes out" so to say, to respond to the adrenaline when necessary? Like an on demand drug? Or does it live in you so to say, all the time and always at work so that your heart rate can never go up and out of control no matter what you do?

I'm on it aga...

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ECG-New Results

Hi All,

I had an ECG done in Nov. My Dr. told me that the results now show that I MAY have a first degree A/V block. Then she tells me that they usually DO NOT implant pacemakers in a patient with a first degree block. I got my pacemaker in 8/07, and at the time was told that I had Bradycardia with a 2nd degree block. I had my implant at a civilian hospital in another state. Now, I am receiving medical at the Veteran's Administration. That is where the ECG was done. They are sending m...

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