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Wishing you lots of good luck with your hospital visit coming up soon. Keep us posted. So good to see you back with all your great info. aldeer

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Rare Complication

Happy Friday Pacemaker Pals!

Just wanted to say thanks to those of you who were so supposrtive during my hospital stay this week!

As many of you know, I had open heart surgery about 9 weeks ago to correct SVC Syndrome. After the surgery, I felt great for the first 6 weeks or so, and then I started getting strange symptoms. The symptoms progressed to the point where they were becoming debilitating, but my doctors just couldn't figure out what was wrong.

On Mond...

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christmas

i have always loved christmas. it is such a magical time of the year and i love watching my grandchildren at this time of year.i will continue this but i still fail to understand how a father would not love a mother . right a way the marriage is over. mom comes first in his world mommy. how strange and hard to understand . i left my daddy and my mommy and so did my husband

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Carolyn65

Smitty, you are back online at PM Club? Bless you ~ ~ everyone has missed you. All of the PM members is/has given me good/great advice, comments and suggestions, but I do so miss your input so much. What is this about your upcoming hospital visit? I read this in a comment from aldeer ~ ~ God Bless and all our thoughts and prayers will be coming your way. Keep all of us posted on what is going on in your life ~ ~ Good luck, Carolyn G. in TEXAS ~ ~ GOOOO UT LONGHORNS ~ ~ ( :

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Thumps that weren't there before

(5 weeks post op today. Diagnosed with 3rd degree heart block but episodes would only happen 2-3 times per year).

I am wondering if anyone experienced palpitations, skips "after" the pm that they don't remember having before?

I understand that it could be me just being on high alert for thumps and what not....but I truly feel like I am having skips that I wasn't before.

Is it possible that getting a pm can "cause" these types of things? Like if they had left me a...

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Another update re infection

Hi all

hope all is well with everyone ,I just thought i would let you in on a update some of which you have read about before.As i have said before i have had a breast infection since 2006 anout 2 months after i recieved my PM. Infection was not intolerable and came and went up intil this jan 2009 since then i have had 5 surgeries and byopsies and cultures no one can figure out where the inf is coming from,one nurse said that it is possible there is a tunnel btwn the PM and the breast...

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INfections

Hi all

hope all is well with everyone ,I just thought i would let you in on a update some of which you have read about before.As i have said before i have had a breast infection since 2006 anout 2 months after i recieved my PM. Infection was not intolerable and came and went up intil this jan 2009 since then i have had 5 surgeries and byopsies and cultures no one can figure out where the inf is coming from,one nurse said that it is possible there is a tunnel btwn the PM and the breast...

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pacemaker mediated tachycardia

Hi,
I had my third pacemaker put in last year. Twenty-four years with 2 Medtronics, but my newest one is St. Jude's, if that matters. I have periodic hard and rapid heartbeats with my new pacemaker which my doctor thought was pacemaker mediated tachycardia. They tweaked the settings and it appeared to get better, but has returned recently with a vengence. I'm preparing for another office visit to have it interrogated and hopefully tweaked again, but was wondering if others had had similar i...

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Tired of feeling tired....


Hi Everyone,
I am new on this board so I don't know if this is the right place to post this but I am hoping someone might have some suggestions. I got my dual PM/Defib a year and a half ago and feel worse after the surgery. Prior, my ej frac was 20% but I was asymptomatic. They think it is postpartum cardiomyopathy and fortunately, I had no symptoms whatsoever. They caught the enlarged heart through an xray when I had pneumonia. I had the device implanted and felt horrible for 3 week...

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ER Visit

Hi friends hope all is going well for all of you. I had a ER visit that went horrible after having a lot of chest pressure for a week a couple people finally talked me into going and getting it checked out.
I found out nothing in the hospital and they did nothing for me besides the nurses telling me get in as soon as I could in the morning.
I got my pm settings all changed around and went to my regular Dr where they were able to tell me more. I have a built up inflamation around...

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medicare

I am covered be medicare. Does medicare cover the cost of a pacemaker?

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newbie


The incision still a little swollen and sore but no discomfort in the chest. Just a FYI that may or may not have anything to do with my continued palpitations. Since surgery, I have had alot of time on my hands so I spend that on the computer. Under the desk there is a large stereo speaker attched to my mini speakers that I totally forgot was there. I remember reading that speakers may interfere with PM. I've unplugged it and have not had a palp since. Coincidence?

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ck up soon

CHF put me into ER and I was implanted with a Medtronic Consulta CRT-D. There were complications which are too gross to go into. This was in Mar 09.It was set for 60 and 130. At the first interrogation it was tweaked to 70/130. I currently pace at 30%A and 100% V, so I am dependent on the PM. I am wondering now if it needs some tweaking, especially after reading some of the Q & A on the forum. Symptoms are shortness of breath which if I don't stop everything leads into Angina in my throat and do...

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Newbie

I just had my first PM implanted on Friday. Everyone involved had different things to tell me and I'm confused as hell. I'm still having the same flutters as before and I'm not sure if the leads came off or the PM's not working properly or it's totally normal.
Kinda of worriesome but don't want to cry wolf.

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Found Reason no action after cath

A few days ago I posted I was fed up with having cath's done, basicly the reason was they informed me there were still blockages and couple new ones, yet they did nothing, no stenting.. Apparently Medicare and my supplemental Insurance will not cover any stenting or by pass procedure unless there is dam near total blockage, this to me is crazy but the way it was explained to me yesterday when i finally went off in doctors office, has any one else ran into this issue?

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Headache is Much Better

Good news. It as been two weeks since my PM implant with constant headaches. Thanks to everyone for thier advice and support. Today is much better with only a very slight headache.

I suppose my body just needed time to heal.

Your body is a Temple
I Treated Mine
Like an Amusement Park!!!

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Any Friends of Bill W. Here?

I have been a Friend of Bill W. for 33 years and this has helped me to always keep a positive attitude when faced with PM success. Also at other times when everything seemed to go wrong with leads failing, infections setting in and seemingly endless operations.

The Serenity Prayer and the knowledge that I can't, God can, I think I will let him saw me through the rough times.

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blood presure

can a PM increase your blood presure? I have never had an issue with this untill getting my pm

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Carolyn65

I just got thru typing a comment to post & 'poof' ~ it disappeared! Anyway, my question is, how would I know if my leads/wires became unattached to my heart? My condition was trach/pooling of blood/"flutter" (?). This may be a silly question to you more "seasoned" commentors with a lot more knowledge on the PM. Would I feel something? I am 2 weeks tomorrow out of my first ablation/PM implant. I feel like my recovery must be normal. I do not feel anything at all except for a 'tug'/pull fro...

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Edema w/bruising

Hi Everyone---
I'm not subject to edema, but the other nite I looked at my feet & legs & they were very swollen, and my right foot was completely bruised, (dark blue) There was no cause for the bruising and no pain connected with it. Just wondering if anyone has any info on that?? I do have a Medtronic Pacemaker.
Thanks in advance for any info---
mc1 :-)

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