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WOW-------- huge thanks

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU

to whoever improved the private message boxes. Yay!!!!
My goodness.....now it won't take me ALL DAY to delete emails....

what a time saver.....BEST improvement yet.....


KUDOS,
Angelie

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Holster

Tomorrow I am going to be set up with the 24 hour holster. Boy, in the last few years, the equipment has really gotten smaller. The first one I had was about the size of a regular cordless phone hand set, and impossible to hide/disguise.

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Bradycardia No PM yet!

Hello! I need you guys support. I am a widow, 59yrs, suffer from bradycardia, fibromylgia, and extreme high blood pressure. As it is right now, I am waiting to hear from my Social Sequrity for disablity. I have no insurance, so I am not being treated for my cardiac problems, I have not been had any good luck with bp meds, either I have an allergic reation or making my bradycardia worse. What makes it even worse is that my bp is so high one day last week it went up to 243/115
went b...

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Moving the PM?

As a woman with a PM, I am having trouble keeping the PM from showing with many clothing necklines (especially with the hotter weather). I know that PM's can be placed elsewhere besides on the chest. Mine is so near the center, and I am on the small side.
Can a PM be moved over nearer the shoulder, or put in another place when the battery is changed?
I wish that my Doctor had asked me where I wanted it placed. Do Doctors take into consideration the gender of the patient when pla...

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beta blockers

hi everyone hope you all doing well ive not been on for some time ,well i have a qustion to ask my hubby has a pm and merchanical mitral valve pm for just 7 months well the last few days he has mentioned he feels like he is getting out of breath even when talking ,i was woundering what this could be ,he started on beta blockers 3 weeks ago ,but this breathlessness only started 3 days ago so i dont think it could be them and only a small dosage ,any ideas thanx all as he fed up of running to doc...

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To remember is to live...

haha...this always makes me smile...my mom always says "To remember is to live" ...and its so true. Remembering happy times in our lives and laughing about things in the past...that is the way to live! Sometimes i sit with my brother and remember the times when we were way younger kids getting into trouble and we laugh about the silly things we did. It almost makes me wish i was a kid again...but also makes me smile and want to really live life. To remember is to live. Remember the good times. R...

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Pacing

On recent visit to Doctor, he mentioned I was pacing 75% of the time. Does that mean my pacemaker is working 75 % of the time and my heart is working 25% of the time.

Bob

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You've got to be kidding...

Hi all! Happy Memorial Day! So I had my pacemaker put in March 19th and since then have made nothing but bigger issues then I had before. Pre-pacer I would get dizzy and pass out monthly, nightly I'd feel a bit of a flutter, and occasionally I'd have blurry vision. Now I have all of those more often along with chest pain, feeling like my heart is beating out of control, and sudden naseua. So after multiple visits to my cardiologist, multiple ER trips, and countless pacemaker check ups they decid...

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Happy Memorial Day!

Goooood eveeennning, Pacemakerclub!!!! (For those of you who've seen Good Morning, Vietnam - great movie). Speaking of Robin William's films, I watched part of Mrs. Doubtfire today! Drove even more yesterday... Yeah me!!!! I feel so stupid... Duh, I'd be here today!... It's quote time!!!!

"We'd also like to remind you to turn off your cellular phones, computers, video games, or any other electronic device that may interfere with the captain's pacemaker."
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Pacemaker check-ups

Hi there everyone
I am again going for my pm check up tomorrow. Does anyone else have a fainting feeling when having pm checked. I mentioned it to my technician and he cant understand why I get these feelings but nothing is done about it.
I dont quite understand what happens when being calibrated in (now had a pm for over 22 years) and still dont understand.
It is as though they slow heart rate down really low and I feel faint as if I dont have a pm, then I feel ok again.

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PACER CHICKS AND PACER BOYS!

Hey guys!!!!!

It's official! Loopy Lou is coming to the Fundraiser in September! It is all booked and I am flying with Virgin and staying with Tracy! (Poor Thing! having to put up with me that long!!).

Angelie, get those pillows ready girl, I'm a coming!

Cabg dear, dust down that tux!

Would love to catch up with as many people as possible from this lovely site! Especially our very own.... BLAKE!

Love & Hugs, Loopy Lou xxxxxxxxxx

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pacemaker too sensitive? help...

I have a question that I asked my doctor at the hospital after my first night with the pm which was three weeks ago. I didn't really get an answer and it is still bothering me.
My heart rate will drop and pacemaker will send a volt and then heart rate jumps up to 80 or 90. Then it will work it's way back down and pacemaker will send a volt and heart jumps up again like it got shocked almost. This goes on and on for hours somketimes. It is very distracting. The doctor said that it was my he...

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SNOTTY RECEPTIONIST...

SNOTTY RECEPTIONIST

An older gentleman had an appointment to see the urologist who shared offices with several other doctors. The waiting room was filled with patients.

As he approached the receptionist's desk, he noticed that the receptionist was a large unfriendly woman who looked like a Sumo wrestler.

He gave her his name.

In a very loud voice, the receptionist said, "YES, I HAVE YOUR...

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i need your opinion!!

Hi everyone!!! Im here so confused...dont know what to do. As u may know my name is brokenheart because i have a broken heart from a doctor that told me he was going to fix my heart rhythm problem and instead burned off my av node giving me complete heart block. I was very delicate and in intensive care for a couple days. Anyway, after that i ended up with a pacemaker. The problem i had which was the svt is gone however i still have atrial tachycardia that affects me because it makes my heart r...

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:)

Hello!!!!! I DROVE OVER 2 MILES TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I'm only 14, but... :) If I must say so myself, I didn't do too bad; I just hit 10 people, that's all. :) JK!!! :) I had a lot of caffine today, about 4 cups today! I'm a naughty person... I have to go to the cardiologist on Friday... I HATE going to the doctor. This makes 5 times (to the cardio.) in 1 year; not counting ER and regular Dr. visits. Oh well. :) Oh! Last night (at like, 11:00) I called in my LBH and the guy called me a...

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21, pregnant with pacemaker READ ON

Im not quite sure what to do, or whats SAFE FOR ME...But I just turned 21 and had 2 Heart valve Replacement heart surgerys 2 Pacemaker surgerys, several seizures during the last surgery which caused me to have to re lern everything-how to walk, talk, read, add, and even lost my hearing aand vision for a little while and permantely hae to wear hearing aids. Then I just got out of the hospital 5 days ago because I had a seizure out of nowhere on may 13th 2009, then at the hospital I find out I am...

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High rate pacing - I'm confused

Before my 4th ablation, my heart rate would rise on it's own during exercise and my natural sinus node would take over for the entire duration of increased activity.
My pacemaker was used rarely and only in times when my heart rate was low. I had mostly high rate rhythms but occasional low rates as well- mostly due to beta blockers.
Now after my 5th ablation, I'm paced the majority of the time in my right atrium and I don't take any heart rhythm medications.
I've had SO many ablat...

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Oxygen Therapy

I have a dual chamber pacemaker I received in Nov. 2008. I was diagnosed with complete heart block after a sleep study. Two weeks ago my family physician said that my sleep study showed that my oxygen level was dropping into the 60's when I slept. I asked to do another study because I was hoping that the pacemake had fixed this. I did a home test on Tuesday and my doctor has ordered oxygen for me to use while I sleep. I feel like my life is slipping away and I am unable to stop it. Does any...

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News of needing a PM- a sinking feeling.

Today was the sinking feeling when told I needed a PM.
Are are kidding me?? I thought they were just dizzy spells that I could brush off but after a car accident and no longer tolerating the sx's the news came- Sick Sinus Syndrome. Here is the kicker, I work in health care as a Cardiology Technologist.
I did stress testing, stress echo's with many a paced patient....and ta da...my turn. I have seen the bruising, fractured leads and the serious infections of a new implant and it l...

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GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

*storms behind me* AHHH!! Ok, I FINALLY convinced my mother to take me to get iced coffee this morning (when, in fact, I had already consumed a cappuchino) and she agreed. So we comenced on our merry way. Well, do NOT get iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts because you have MAKE IT YOURSELF! McDonalds doesn't make you do that; you order it and they hand it to you. Insanity!!!!!!!!! Grace thinks I'm over - reacting, but Grrrr I tell you, Grrr!!!!!!!!!!! Ohhh, my stomach hurts from all that coffee... T...

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