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Heart rate speeds up while resting

After 6 weeks, my heart rate is still speeding up (only in 80s) when I am sitting or resting without a good reason. If I am sitting, it will cause me to kind of cough - I say sounds like a cat with a hairball. It had not been speeding up when I did any activity though. I did 3 floors of stairs and it did not get above 65. They changed the setting to active and I am feeling better about moving and doing things (I am a band director) but still have hairball issues. I have found if I am sitting...

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Pacemaker/High Blood Pressure

I just discovered this club. Wish I had found it sooner as I thought I was the only one fighting this battle. The same night I got the pacemaker my blood pressure soared to 225/125. I was not taking medicine and the nurses were frantic. I was put on five different kinds of medicine which nearly killed me. And no one was willing to help me discover what was wrong. I finally took myself slowly off all but one but there was still the highs and lows. I finally found a book called "Living Glut...

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afib

have pacer one year...for bradycardia... no problems, but last night had a afib 3o minutes... heart rate and bp out of site.. should I be worried ?

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pacemaker site hurting

I accidently hit my pacemaker site and have had pain for 2 weeks now,I saw my cardiologist andhe took a one second look at it and said it looked fine.I know the decice is fine but I have a lump in the skin area of the pacemaker site that wadnt there before and it hurts now and didn't before.what can I do?they aren't going to take the device out since it doent look too bad.

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Pacing caused by arm motion, Pericarditis

Hello,

I'm a 37 y/o female, pacemaker implanted in April 2015 for 3rd degree AV block. I have had a strange issue recently in which moving my left arm across my chest would reliably result in pacing (I have always been able to feel the pacing when it occurs). In addition, whenever I bent over, I would feel fluttering in my heart that would subside about 30 seconds later. After these issues had been occurring for about two weeks, I sent in a download and was told there was "a lot of i...

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Hello

Seems I haven't posted since 2010!

My concern is that my doctor called to say he has had 'an alert' from Medtronic and they are going to remove the whole she-bang
in January.

He told me to not stress over this, okayyyy. Why do they not just call the week or two days before??

I have tiny veins and it took forever for them to get an IV to put the pacemaker in so I am dreading the very idea of surgery.

Has anyone else had their Medtronic In...

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Burning in Chest

Hi everyone! I just became a member about 5 minutes ago and I already have a question! My pacemaker was put in almost 4 months ago which means I am still get used to it. This evening after lifting plates for our dinner I started to feel a burning feeling in my chest. It is still there and gets worse when I move my arms. I could not lift my 5 year old son tonight. Is this normal? If so, I can tolerate the pain, but I just need to know. Thank you for time and reading this.

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Tierd from having a PM

It all started in one peaceful day , when i was happy and enjoying my life , i blocked out , and went to check a doctor , she said that i should implant my pacemaker as fast as i could , the second day i made my surgery it was my first time to go to hospital , i said it's okay nithing to worry about ,,, i was fat at that time , then after that time ,, i started to lose weight day after day my pacemaker appered under my skin bec i have lost a huge ammount of my weight ,, and the battry appered so...

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Random sharp pain

Hello!

I had a dual-lead pacemaker implanted this past August. I went to my check ups and everything is looking good! I had the pacemaker implanted for Heart block! I am only 25 years old a do not know a lot about pacemakers and was quite a shock to get one!

I have recently been experiencing a random, shooting/sharp pain that will last for a couple minutes at a time for maybe once or twice a day. I am not sure if this is normal or if there could be a reason why this happe...

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Help

Help I have been in the hospital for over a week. Got the pacemaker 3 months ago had an ventricular tach ablation very complicated on Friday and now they are switching out my pacemaker for an icd tomorrow morning. I'm scared.

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what is prominent pulmonary arch

Hi,
I just had my pacemaker put in 2 days ago. When I was looking through my discharge papers, I saw a note that the radiologist wanted to do another x-ray to rule out prominent pulmonary artery. This was never mentioned to me and when I called the Dr, she said not to worry, it's probably nothing. I'm starting to panic now because all I've seen on the internet about it sounds like it could be serious.
Also, I've been feeling and audibly hearing my heartbeat down low under mt le...

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Electric Shocks Sensation

Hello, I have 5 months with my pacemaker. Everything was going well however today I felt like an electric shock sensation. It was a weird, different feeling. It kind of left me shaky. Has anyone experience this? If yes, why does one get that feeling? Thanks in advance

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accidently hit pacemaker site

I accidently hit the pacmekaer on the side of a closet door when bending down to reach something off the closet floor.I felt a tearing sensation in the skin area around the pacemaker and now it has been sore since I di it aprox 4 days ago.There is small lumps in my pacemaker skin site where I hurt it.Has anyone done this and is it anything to worry about.Isnt it just possibly nothing to worry about?

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In hospital :( drain in heart?

Well I am at the hospital and had an ablation for my tachycardia. Ended up being on the in and outside of my heart. Now I have a drain in my heart. It is so painful. Has anyone had this and how do you feel when it comes out?
Lisa

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car travel vibration

Has anyone had a problem while traveling in a car (bus, train, plane, etc.), with vibration triggering your PM to increase your heart rate too much? I've had my PM two weeks, today was the first time I traveled by car on the freeway. The vibration set off the PM and my HR shot up to 102, I was a passenger riding in the back seat. This was not a pleasant experience, but as soon as we exited the freeway my HR went back to normal.

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accidently hurt area on pacemaker

I accidently hurt my 2 month old pacemaker by leaning over and accidently gettingmy pacemaker caught on something and it is swollen and sore on the pacemaker skin site.Its not that swollen but I feel that I toresometing because I could feel pain when it happened.It is still sore.These pacemakers feel like they are barely under the skin and mine is about the size of a small size of soap.What are the chances of seriously hurting it by accidently getting it caught on something.They is no tear in th...

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Chiropractic and pacemakers

Can Cox Method chiropractic treatments harm a pacemaker?

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Atrial Lead & AFL

On August 21, 2015 I had open heart surgery to repair my mitral valve, close patent foramen ovale (PFO), and a septal resection to correct LVOT Obstruction. During the surgery the atrial lead from my pacemaker became dislodged and 3 days later I had more surgery to insert a new lead. Due to the septal resection, which probably removed my AV Node, I am now 100% pacemaker dependent.

I found out today I have Atrial Flutter (AFL). It was caught by the pacemaker technician while doing an i...

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Have some troubles

I have been having some issues with gaining fluid I have at times gained up to 10 lbs. Also having a heavy feeling in chest and cramps like feeling even in left arm,after these feeling my muscles in my chest and arms sore. And at night when I lay my arm across my chest the heavy feeling increase. My EP has me on new med Corlanor.it has help some since he said it has he wants to a blade the spot this med controls,putting me 100%dependent on pacemaker said he thinks this will keep me from going in...

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More surgery

I had my pm implanted last week Friday. The surgery went well (besides when my IV fell out and I woke up in the middle of surgery) and I am mostly healed. For the first week though I had an annoying twitch whenever I did any physical activity which I later found out was because my leads were stimulating my diaphragm. They turned my voltage from 4 down to 1.25 and now I don't feel it but they called me yesterday and told me that I would need to have surgery to have that lead moved so they can tur...

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