Bulging pacemaker

bulging

by Tracey_E - 2018-09-28 11:26:19

It is generally harmless when that happens. It can be annoying and sometimes painful, but something like that isn't going to affect your leads. It can take up to a full year for it to settle in so hopefully it will get better than it is now. If it doesn't get better and it bothers you, it can be repositioned.  

Comfortable Sleeping

by loblolly - 2018-09-28 17:27:49

It's been 3 weeks since my surgery. At first I couldn't sleep at all except lying on my back. I can finally sleep comfortably on my right side if I wedge a small pillow under my left arm, but it takes a minute or so once I turn on my side for my device to kind of settle down so that I'm comfortable. I'm beginning to try lying on my left side- very cautiously! I wear a sports type bra day and night and that is helping.

I still get pretty tired  most afternoons. Wondering if it has anything to do with not yet being able to get completely comfortable sleeping?

Moving around

by AgentX86 - 2018-09-29 12:20:11

As others have mentioned, it takes a while for everything to settle down.  It took a good six to eight weeks for the swelling to go down completely, after my implant.  I slept in a recliner for a couple of months (probably could have cut a couple of weeks off that).  I'm a stomach sleeper, so it took some time before I was completely comfortable, again.  I still have some contact pain at the incision site.  The pain is a little to the left, actually.  We're all a litttle different and have to figure out what works for us.

Loblolly: For three weeks, you're doing exceptionally well.  Time will start picking up speed and you'll be back to normal before you know it.  If you're tired in the afternoon, perhaps they can tweak settings but I'd give it more time. Are you on any drugs, like beta blockers?  That'll do it, too.

Pillows are useful

by atiras - 2018-09-29 14:48:14

My PM went in 3 and a half weeks ago, and was fine before it started to wander... I'm going to hospital again in 4 days time for them to track it down and relocate it, ONLY because it presses on the nerves that go down my left arm, especially at night. If it wasn't causing pain, they would have preferred to leave it to find it's own preferred place. They have reassured me that there's so much slack in the leads that it's roving habits won't affect those, which I hope reassures you as well.

I've never been able to sleep on my back, or on my stomach, and although I'd started comfortably sleeping on my left side before the Wanderer started its travels (12 days after implantation), I'm now back to right-side sleeping. I put a pillow behind my back to stop me rolling over inadvertently, and hug another one to my front, to help 'hold things where I want them to be'; the pillows also stop me getting up without thinking about how I'm going to do it.

Only problem is that by the time you've got me, two pillows and two cats in bed, my partner is clinging to the far edge like last man onto the life raft.

Me too!!!

by lj_ranch - 2018-10-02 01:51:34

I had my PM surgery on May 7 of this year and have had two additional surgeries for lead insert June 21 and finally lead replacement on June 29.  I finally have healed but I have a horrible bulge.   You can actually trace the outline of the PM!!!  Sometimes I have a slight pain, usually when I am lying on either side but its not something I can't live with.  As long as it works and my leads stay in I'm okay with it.  Hope you're okay!