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MRI

Forgot to say in recent post re MRI scan. I live in UK

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Swelling in left foot

I had a pacemaker put in three weeks ago and I have had some swelling in my left foot it doesn't have the symptoms of a blood clot the swelling seems worse at the end of the day they tell me that this will get better with time. But I don't know? Any one else ever had this problem?

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Pacemaker being removed due to misdiagnosis

Hi, I've had my Heart Monitor for 7 months and my Pacemaker for 6. I switched from a Cardiologist to a Electrophysiologist when things just seemed to keep going from bad to worse. The whole 'better' feeling just never happened. Instead I felt more and more tired, often sleeping through an entire day and getting winded climbing a set of stairs. If I push myself to try and do something, anything, like wash dishes, I get a feeling very much like a baby twisting and kicking under my l...

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Ventricular tachycardia

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It has been 1 1/2 years since I received my pacer and I have really felt great since then until about 2 months ago.  I have had some fatigue and breathing issues, much like I experienced before my pacer.  I went for my regular checkup yesterday and to my surprise, my doctor told me that they have seen on my remote, that I have ventricular tachycardia and that I am now having to go to the physician that placed the pacer (they are in the same office).  My doct...

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Over reach pain severe

This is my 2 pacemaker , is not to deep how Dr implanted .. it got i implanted 1 year ago..i was driving and from sitting position I reach all the way down on car carpet while sitting and I felt this severe Sharp pain on my pacemaker area and felt like a stretch muscle I do also have history of shoulder tendonitis ..any thing tyo be concern about ? Did I move the pacemaker or leads I got scared pain was severe ..

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Muscle spasms?

I was wondering about pacemakers and muscle spasms and if they have any relation? I started to get some very painful muscle spasms this year, i was given muscle relaxers and pain medications but now, about 3 months later, I am gettimg another muscle spasm. Can pacemakers cause this? Or possibly Neurocardiogenic syncope? I have no clue why I am getting them. Maybe i damaged something with my many falls throughout the years from fainting. Any one have these issues? Thank you 

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New pacemaker help

Hi, I am very new to this I am 6 days post op. I went home the day after surgery and havent felt good since. I have a "pulse" in my stomach, very strong it looks like I have a baby kicking inside my stomach. My BP is now 150/110 which I was always normal pre-op. My heart rate runs around 86 but I feel the pounding all the time, the kicking is worse when I am sitting, so I dont sit now. I have 3 calls into my Dr. The nurse called back last week I told her what was happening, she...

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Issue with leads

Hell my name is Geoffrey I have a dual pacemaker I've had a pacemaker since 2004 and never had a problem then in 2014 I had open heart surgery and had new leads put in.in 2016 I began to feel a weird feeling and it felt like I was getting shocked I was telling my doctor's what I was feeling for about 8 months straight and they did nothing then just in April of this year I told them again and had the Boston scientific guy come in and check it  he then told them it was fractured th...

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Pain

I am almost post 3 weeks from the implant of my dual chamber pacemaker.   My incision has healed well.  My question is about left arm pain.   Sometimes it feels like I’m having horrible muscle spasms in my left armpit.  Is this normal?  Any tips on pain relief??

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Pvc's

Good morning pacers! Wondering has anyone had a lot of pvc's after getting a pacemaker? I have always had some pvc's but since I got my pacemaker Iam having one right after the other. Went to see the cardiologist yesterday. put me on medication, just not working out only made them worse. Just wondering is this normal. 

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missed heart beat

I am Dr.M .Radhakrishnan from S.India.I rec ently had apacemaker inserted and was doing great .My pacemaker was the latest one from Boston scientific. I  had  been having  extasystole  extensive diagnosis( angiogram halter ) my acrdiologist suggested taht I go in for apacemaker .I was doing great for aweeka nd the review too went off fine .After about one and a half  weeks , i have started experiencing amissed beat every now and then.Is this common? I am atl...

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Pacemaker

Hi my name is Michelle I’m 30 years old.  This is the 1st time I’ve posted on here I just need other people’s thoughts and advice who already have a pacemaker.  I got told in June this year that I have completele heart block I got rushed in for a pacemaker to be fitted.  6 weeks later they found out my lead had came out of my heart so once again I was in theatre having the lead re inserted and at the same thing they put the pacemaker underneath my chest muscle...

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Pain in armpit and left arm after pacemaker surgery

I had a pacemaker implanted on November 8.  The third wire became dislodged within 2-3 days and I had follow up surgery on November 20.  After the second surgery, I have swelling, tenderness and mild redness under my left armpit and down my left arm.  I have no fever.  I did the night I came home. It was 102.3.  Has anyone else experienced this after effect ?

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Problems with being 100% paced

i had a pacemaker implanted in 2012 for heartblock and used the pacemaker for about 40% of the time. I now use the pacemaker 100% of the time and my doctor has tried everything to try and get my heart to work on its own but no luck. He tells me that over time the heart gets lazy and just stops working. I am now 54 and do worry what the future will hold as I am told it is a degenerative disease and can only expect more problems. I just had a checkup and I had 1 episode of vt which ha...

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Irregular heart beats

Today has been a rough day, I have had irregular heart beats so bad that I can't hardly stand it. my blood pressure has been up my heart rate was 199. I have been so restless today is day 25, someone please tell me it gets better. 

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Irregular heart beats

Hi I am having a lot of anxiety, shortness of breath, feeling fatigue. having irregular heart beats so bad that I can't sleep. I don't understand I thought a pacemaker was supposed to help with this problem. this day 24 of my recovery. I am starting to get worried. has anyone out there ever had this problem. maybe my medication needs adjusting. I don't know, very concerned 

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Dual Chamber Pacemaker

I was fitted with a temporary pacemaker in emergency late at night (right jugular) and a St Jude dual chamber pacemaker the following morning (just below the left collar bone). This occurred after five LOC events in 33 hrs (all while seated and leaning forward and to the left and arcing my head downwards) and the sixth LOC event while standing and leaning forward and to the left and arcing my head downwards. This latter event left me on a concrete floor and an ambulance ride to the ho...

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A curiosity - lightheaded in stores?

Not sure there is anything to it, but I was looking at one of the other blogs, and people were reporting feeling lightheaded in some stores, one fellow attributed it to the security systems that may be affecting the pacemakers.

This is exactly what happened to me last Wednesday at Kohls.  After 10 minutes in the store I got light headed and my wife had to drive me home.  When I checked  my BP  it had spiked to about 190 over 90...   way above normal.

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Turning Pacemaker

Hi everyone,

I had a PM put in 2 months ago. 

I'm now feeling pinching of the skin around the pacemaker, and a new tension of something - I can't be sure what - in that area.

It feels as if the PM has turned in its pocket and the leads or the tissue are stretched, and it's painful.

It's Saturday night, and I don't know if there's much point going to the doctor's until Tuesday (Monday's a holiday here)

Any suggestions or ideas...

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Broken wire left in heart after lead extraction- why am I breathless?

I have had lead replacement (2 replaced), one lead snapped (redundant failed lead from 25 years ago)and left in the heart, end attached with scar tissue, the other end floating. I am having breathlessness with significant huffing and puffing with exertion- (like before I had my 1st pacemaker over 25 years ago). 6 weeks post surgery- there is some talk that this fluttering is causing extra etopic beats and will take up to 12 months for heart to grow over the 4 cm strand-- anyone else had...

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