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Hello all.....just feeling the need to chat.....anyone want to join me in the chat room......cheers

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Telephone Check question

First, thanks to Electric Frank and JoelyM for their answersto my previous question. I have another from a couple of years ago actually. I was doing a telephone check and when I got to the part where you hold a magnet over the pacemaker, I heard a series of strange noises from the transmitter for a while, then it settled down to the normal. rapid pulse.
The technician said, do that over and hold the magnet still, you are moving it all over the place.
I did do it over, and the resul...

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got out of the hospital on march 10th..!

hi everyone. sorry i am a bit late but i have been busy! feeling great! i got my defibrillator around 11:30 am on march 9th. i left the hospital around 3 pm march 10th. my husband got to stay with me at maine med so it was great (he and my family loved the cafeteria haha) i have been having at home nurses checking up on me once or twice a week to see how my incision is doing. everything is going great! my doc said the pace maker did it's job when he tested it, and the surgery took like an hour....

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Don't blame the PM

Hi Friends,
I have been going to the EP to get my PM adjusted as I am tired all the time. The EP said my PM was fine, working as it should.
Well last week I got some pretty heavy news, I have myelona.
I have made this posting to tell everyone that not everything that goes wrong is the fault of the PM. I was in great health until I got the PM so I just assumed that was the problem with my health. I hope this posting will be of help to other pacers.
Gary

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Heart block?

If your heart is pacing 99% of the time Ventricular but only 2% atrial, dies that mean that you have 3rd degree heart block?
Also, I have read that if your natural heart rate is 50 or below, that is pretty low. Does that mean that if you pace at the above rate that your heart is beating to slow?
If so, why was it not upped to 60 minimum at my 1st check-up last week!
I am confused!!

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Scar pain

Hi all, hope everyone's OK. It's been nearly a month since I had my PM fitted, and everything seems to be going well. I had a bit of a fright yesterday and my heart skipped a lot, but that could have been as a result of the adrenaline flowing through my veins!

The one thing that's really got on my nerves has been the pain around my scars. They were really itchy but on Loopy Lou's advice I've been rubbing Vitamin E cream on them, but now there's a sort of shooting pain through them ev...

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Re: " Dairy Princess "

Debbie Stamos was one of the newest members of our on-line family...her vibrant personality blessed many of our lives...she will be missed.

Below is a link which can be used to sign her guestbook:

http://www.danielfuneralhome.com/obituaries/obituary.php?id=959

pacepal

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Wonder If My Heart Doctor Reads These Post

I had sought help in getting information to ask my doctor at my scheduled appointment of March 18, 2008, I have an ICD since October 2008, on that date as I always do I called to make sure my appointment was still active to learn that the doctor that morning, a few min before I called changed my appointment to March 25, and ordered a ecco gram prior to seeing him that day...of course some members gave me questions to ask him, now apparently he him self wants more information, I did find out that...

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arabella

come back to chat if you have time.

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PACEMAKER IS HURTING ME

hi all my name is ashley I am 19 years old I have had my pacemaker sence 2001 and now I am having problems with my pacemaker Ithink that I got way too close to a large magnet and now my pacemaker is relley hurting on top what should I do

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Dairy Princess (Debbie) -Update

Thank you all for your prayers and sympathies extended for Debbie's unexpected passing. We thought she was on the road to recovery, so this news was quite a shock. We are somewhat relieved to know she did not suffer, and was within her normal routine.... having a hard time falling asleep at night, watching tv on the couch and being on the computer, finally falling asleep until 3 or 4am, then crawling into bed. Sometime after she dozed off, she passed.
According to the Medical Examiner,...

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Do you need a landline

My father doesn't have a land line and recently received a pacemaker. Is there any way to use his cell phone to monitor and download info to dr.?

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pulse rate range

I have had my St Jude Pacemaker since December 2005, and have not been much concerned about it. But I went in for an "in-clinic" check a few days agoand was surprised by something.
I guess I have had about a dozen of these tests since i got the pacemaker, this last time I was tested I was seated in a chair and could look over the technician's shoulder and see the monitor. Before I was always lying on my back. My normal resting heart rate is 60, I can get ti over 100 by walking for 10 min...

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DairyPrincess (Debbie) News

I am sorry to pass this information on to the friends in this club, but Debbie passed away peacefully in her sleep in the early morning hours of March 17th.
We have no further information at this time as arrangements are being made. Her service will be in St. Cloud, potentially on Saturday. More information should be available in the Star Tribune.

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Pacercheck

Hello fellow pacers!
Boy oh boy, do I have some good news to share. Today was my interrogation of my St. Jude Dual pacemaker. Seems the battery was running low prematurely. The new EP greeted me and I was awe struck! 6'4" and handsome! he he... ok, ok... I'm being serious now.
He asked a ton of questions and then he began to work. He actually lowered the rate response to like 20 to see how my heart would react. I felt very weird.... and then an amazing thing happened. My own heart...

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arvd at age 35

Hello, im struggling to change my life...I had an Icd placed on 2/17/09, 2 weeks after it was placed I received my first shocked then a second 1 the same day while I was at the hospital, the Dr changed my meds to hopefully stop my heart from beating so fast...well im now scared to do anything, my heart is only functioning 30%, I went up and down stairs today and I felt something almost like pulsing sensations on my heart from my icd...I already have an appt tomorrow morning with the dr...how do...

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Expecting!

Well my name is Rachel. Ive been a member of this site for a while now but I tend to drift away with the running around of life. So now im expecting! Im 7 weeks (prego). I just wanted to see if anyone had any input with having a pacemaker and having a baby! I have had some slight chest pressure, but other then that I feel fine...... then again im only 7 weeks. lol Thanks for all your help!

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Pacemaker with Super Power abilities

I feel like complete crap today, and wish there was a button on my device that I could push to give me more energy.

I was just wondering if your device could give you a super power or special ability at the touch of a button, what would it be?


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what is going on????!!!

I hope SOMEONE has an anwswer or similar experience, OR I think I've gone nuts!
Pat few weeks Ive had a "funny" feeling in my (breastbone) happens in the evening, while i'm sitting, watching tv...even during Lost!! anyways, sometimes it travels down to the back of my legs, but it's mostly in the middle of my upper chest, not a real "hurt" per say, but a big big ACHE
Thenk during the night, it will return, 2am, etc.

Yesterdday, in the eveing it was very very int...

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Still feeling lightheaded

Got my PM 3 weeks ago today. I'm back to work for a week and a half now and am going to the gym doing a tread mill. Problem is I still feel borderline lighthededness some days on and off. Is this normal? I'm I sill adjusting ? I think the PM is set for 60 to at least 140. I usuallly feel this lightheadedness when not being very active. Thanks so much for the help.

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You know you're wired when...

You have a 25 year mortgage on your device.

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Today I explained everything to my doctor, he set my lower rate back to 80 and I felt an immediate improvement.