new pacemaker

I am a week into my life with a pacemaker. I think I can feel
it and the lead wires just below the surface of my collar bone.
Has anyone else had this experience?

5 Comments

Yes,...

by donr - 2013-09-20 11:09:35

...all the time. I can almost read the serial number on the case . (If you believe that line, I'll make you a great price on a bridge across the Chattahoochee.)
I'm sorta scrawny in the shoulder area, so I can almost make out the locations of all the parts that are not in my vein. This is after nearly 10-1/2 yrs.

No big deal after a while - just a minor nuisance.

Don

Just sore ...

by lahbigbro6 - 2013-09-20 11:09:58

If you are only a week in, its probably soreness on the site. I still get soreness when lifting weights. I am thin in my chest area so pacemaker is raised a little. You do feel the pacemaker, I do anyway. My leads who knows where they are.

Me too

by Grateful Heart - 2013-09-21 12:09:13

I am not scrawny but you can see the top half of my ICD and feel and see a lead coming from the top of it. It's been over 2 years now since my lead revision. Before that, you did not notice it. I guess it's not as deep in the pocket as it was initially.

Like Don said, a little nuisance. Can interfere with the seat belt, etc.

It may settle in for you and not be as noticeable when the swelling goes down.

Welcome to the club.

Grateful Heart

Yes

by Rog - 2013-09-24 11:09:42

My first one was an ICD and and the wires were right there! The CRT-D I got last month is the same way and it really sticks out more than the first. I seem to have gotten used to it now. I have mine on the right side and if I'm a passenger the seat belt is really bad for me. It itches like crazy in the heat.

I can feel my pm

by Jax - 2013-09-25 01:09:21

At first it was so weird. I could actually feel it by my collarbone. Took a while to get used to it. At the gym some people ask me what happened to me when they see my scar-- I tell them I was stabbed by a pirate ... That kind of quiets them down.

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