pacemaker replacement pocket revision

• by wmcc
• 2015-05-07 12:05:16
• Complications
• 1404 views
• 2 comments

Hi,
I had my St. Jude pacemaker replaced December 2014, my old one lasted 10 years and it was put in deep you could only feel it if you poked real hard and it was protected, problem is I had a shands cardiologist this time around, and he couldn't even knock me out and when he opened my chest I had to grip the table and say ouch! he was arrogant and rude used staples insted of stitches, gave me paperwork and I was supposed to have a check up by St. Jude rep in 2 weeks he told me he would set it the same as last one, he didnt set heart rate 10 beats to high i went home and as i healed I noticed pain and when I went to go get staples out there was no St. jude rep notified he just took staples out grabbed a machine set my heart rate back down. But problem is i been in pain since surgery he just place pacer under the skin it moves touches my collar bone and hurts to touch it or around it. He told me take ibuprofen dont complain i went back twice about this he did nothing and still no St Jude rep. I switched cardiologist and he is like you have not seen a st jude rep in 5 months i replied no he had one in the office next morning,i told the rep the story she said i was supposed to be seen after surgery within two weeks by a rep, the new doctor said this had to be fixed it's only protected by the skin not muscle and i shouldnt be in pain 5 months later and it was against my collar bone or just under the skin it sticks me feels like its gonna explode out of my chest when i lift something, the rep said the voltage was way to high over 3 volts and when it paced me it felt like vise grips squeezing my heart, cardiologist wanted to do surgery next day to fix it and said there was no way i could live with the pain like the the next 10 years and where it was placed. my question is what are your thoughts on this and what would you do about old doctor causing me to have an unnecessary surgery again i just had 5 months ago risking infection and having to heal again and go back under anesthesia?