Pacemaker adjustment and impact on blood pressure

• by sllam0423
• 2018-05-01 12:03:49
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My husband had a Biotronik biventricular pacemaker implanted in November 2017. He is 58 and had no previous health or heart issues before having 4 epsiodes of blacking out last Sept - October timeframe, one with a heart monitor where it showed his heart stopped for 12 seconds.  The diagnosis was left bundle branch block, requiring a biventricular pacemaker and he has also had 2 stents put in given blockages found in the circumflex and LAD arteries,post pacemaker surgery.  It's hard to believe all of this has happend in the past 6 months!

He went back for a check-in with EP doctor a few weeks ago and when they looked at the pacemaker output, they found there was no LV pacing, it had been RV pacing only for several months.  This is a big issue given my husband was diagnosed with left bundle branch block and the EP study done before pacemaker surgery showed a definite slowness on the left side of his heart.  The Biotonik rep adjusted his pacemaker configuration and turned up (doubled) the setting for LV pacing.  Since then, my husband has had high blood pressure readings of 140-150 over 80s, whereas before the adjustment, he had been 120-130 at the highest and 80's for the bottom number.  He has another check-up with EP in a few weeks to see how things are going.

Has anyone else had issues with blood pressure increasing after a pacemaker adjustment?

Thanks for sharing,

Susan