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To: Pat

Thanks Pat for your answer to my PM pinching. I have
only one lead wire and today was the first time to be
aware of this discomfort in that area. This is not a constant thing. Just got a phone call from MD and they will see me
Monday morning just to make sure everthing is ok.
Gene

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AH! Sorry!

I didn't write a birthday post for FOUR pacers. Not good.
Well, better late than never I guess.
So, lets see....

1.Amanda: July 29, 1956
2.Karen: July 31, 1962
3.Neat: August 2, 1966
4.Constance (carismendez): August 2, 1983

And now, I’ll do my best to overanalyze the birthdates given, just for my own amusement.

Amanda was 6 when Karen was born.
When our pacer “Neat” was born, Amanda was 10, and Karen was 4.
Then, when Constanc...

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Just

celebrated another birthday thanks to the Pacemaker. I don't know if you know the book Harry Potter but did you know I share a birthday with him and his author J.K. Rowling. Had a nice quiet day with family.

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Holter Monitor Data

After the Holter Monitor Data is studied, is it ever in a summarized format that can be reasonably understood by the patient? Has anyone ever seen their findings? --EL

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29 with pacer and ready to start a family

I'm 29 and have had a pacer since I was 17. Things have gone well over the years and I've only had 1 battery change since but my doctor tells me that in the next 2 years I will probably need the surgery again. He also said I could be considered high risk because of a slight arythmia. Of course, my husband and I talked about having a baby in almost exactly 2 years too. I don't take any meds and I'm very active but I'm concerned.

For those of you who have had children with a PM - did an...

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inappropriate or appropriate?

This is a very private matter for me because I am pretty new to the whole pacemaker thing so I don't exactly know if this was ok or not.
I went in for a check up on my pacemaker and everything with my device is fine. I just need to know for pacer check ups where they have felt around your pacers and how low down your chest they feel. It probably sounds silly, I didn't think much at all until some more awkward things happened in the appointment with just us two and the closed door.

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Tate's Getting PM on Aug. 6

Hello new friends,

WOW! This is all so new to me. Please offer any information that might be helpful to us. Our soon to be 5 year old son (Tate) will receive a pacemaker on Monday, Aug.6, 2007. Tate was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and has recently developed a slow heartbeat & irregular heart rhythms. Tate has had 3 open heart surgeries & several heart caths during the past 4 1/2 years. He has gone into total heart block on 4 different occassions. We knew he would...

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update time once again!

I got my day finally scheduled to go to Mayo Clinic it will be Oct. 1 and 2nd. The first cardiologist apt was suppose to be in Aug. and he referred me on right away is what the lady over the phone told me today. I take it that he knew he couldn't do anything for me.
I still have been pretty weak and continue to get tired really easy though have came to realize that i'm just going to have to work around this.
My chriopractor has been one of my great friends through out my child ho...

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To Smitty

Hi Smitty - I responded to an email from Vicki, a newbie, on this site. However, my answer is really inadequate. Would you please once again post your explanation of how a PM works, when it works, etc.,; you did this for me last year & it made everything so clear for me. She has an unusual set of circumstances and you are the best person I know of to help her understand. There are some other newbies, too, who I believe will benefit from your words of wisdom. Thank you, my friend. God bless...

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Ablation

Hi everyone. I have just returned from an appointment with consultant and he is advising me to consider having an ablation.
This is because my A.F is getting worse and worse despite them trying different medication and strengths. I have a pacemaker which he says will make it easier. I dont really remember mush of the info I was given can anyone fill me in on the pro's and cons..many thanks Jude.

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The New Guy

Hi everybody!

I had my PM installed July 6th. I had had months of weakness, heavy arms and legs, and occasional dizziness. One night when I got up to let the dogs out, I almost passed out, so, even though I like to blame everything on allergies, I knew something was up. I threw on my blood pressure cuff and my pulse was 50. I was diagnosed with AV heart block.

To make a long story short, you can imagine where I spent the week of July 4th...not exactly the fireworks I was lo...

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Pacemaker donations to animals

Hi,

Just found this great club & it is very interesting. I wanted to donate my pacemaker after I pass on & found a 800 # for American Vet Association on this web site so I could donate to an animal in need. But I am sorry to report that I was told that they no longer accept used pacers donations. Person I talked to didn't know why this policy was started.

Any body got any further news?

Keep up the good work folks in supporting each other.

Janet

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shocked

Im a 58yr old male who never had a heart problem. Several weeks ago I had an awfull night sleeping. Chest pains, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizzy and chills.Since I had just 2 months ago passed a yearly exam with flying colors I ignored these symptoms. I drove to work feeling very dizzy. My family made arangements to bring me to my Doctors office. An ekg discovered I was in statge 2 heart block with a suprisingly low pulse of 26.Still in denile I was brought to the ER where the Doc...

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Update and SVC article link

Hello everyone,

In my last post I wanted to provide the link for the article I mentioned about SVC syndrome becoming an increasing complication with pacer (and assuming ICD) implants. I am not quite sure yet how to incorporate links directly in my posts, so I hope these will work:

Try:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/555441 OR

http://www.nature.com/ncpcardio/journal/v4/n4/full/ncpcardio0850.html

This article was just published in this journal...

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So Understand Jessie!

I so get where you are coming from. I thought when they were young and dropping raw eggs from the fridge and pouring cooking oil all over the kitchen was going to make me crazy.What I wouldn't give for those days. I had know idea that even though they were rasied in a baptist church and all 3 had been saved .I was teaching sunday school,my husband a deacon in the church, involved in bus ministry, sang in the choir,we both worked in the sound booth. In church 3 times a week and my husband went on...

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Newbie

Hi, I am brand new to this site. I am a 46 year old woman and I just got my pacemaker 2 weeks ago. I was diagnosed with severe vasovagal syncope, my tilt table test was postive, I was without a heartbeat for 48 seconds. The doctors told me that medication alone would not be able to handle my condition, which has been getting worse in the last 6 months. My surgery went smoothly and I was checked today by my cardiologist-he said all looks great. Just wanted to say hi!

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Heart Stopped

Good morning,

Well I was up re reading all of the posting on this site looking for some input about heart stopping during implant prodcedure. My dear friend of over 45 years was recently taken in for an pacemaker implant due to diabetic complication, AF and other unknown diagnosis. During the procedure which we were told to take less that an hour ended up taking 3 hours + in surgery as heart stopped and was very slow to come back. Is this a normal occurrence?? I can't find out any inf...

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Valerie - New words?

Hi Valerie My Sweet - Did you have trouble finding your way to Saddleback to see your uncle? LOL .I do hope he is doing better and can be home soon. Will he have inpatient rehab? Saddleback does have a really good rehab unit.

It seems to me that "awesome" and "amazing" are 2 words that are definitely overused these days..........I don't even like to use them myself anymore because they seem so ordinary and insincere!

How about if you "invent" some new words for us. Seem...

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tutti frutti

tutti frutti i'm all rutti tutti frutti i'm all rutti bop dit'll bop cis bam boom tuuti frutti i'm all rutti tutti frutti i'm all rutti bop ditt'll bop cis bam boom. is that how it went? i am silly and showing my age but anybody else remember? lol lol sharon? or peter? or maybe valerie? even tho we all know valerie is just a chick. lol lol so see of anyone remembers all the way back to 1957? jessie

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Update on Lizzy

Hello there to everyone who knows me!! I am so sorry i haven`t been here for the last few months but as you know my life has been totally upside down and the rubbish still hasn`t found an end!! Should all be over by the end of the year! So, yes i have really neglected the site but i think i am finally bouncing back a bit!! Just wanted you to kow i am still here and ok. BUT, what i really wanted to tell you was that about 2 1/2 years ago, a young woman wrote a letter to the site, she had just had...

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Your signature looks like an EKG.

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So, my advice is to go about your daily routine and forget that you have a pacemaker implanted in your body.