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CRT therapy or reduce pacing % to improve ejection fraction and function???

Hi all.  First time poster and thrilled to find a group actively sharing experiences and help for each other.  I have a bit of a strange question but hoping somebody might have a similar story.

I have complete congenital heart block and received my first dual lead pacer preventively when I was 30 as studies showed adults with my rare condition were dying for various unpredictable reasons.  Underlying pulse my whole life was low 40's, it accelerated fine for sport...

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Deteriorating Mental Health Implications post-implant

Hey everyone,

I'm 16 years old, living in Wetsern Australia, and received my first pacemaker implant back in February. I had a major incident back when I was 9 years old relating to the same heart condition, but the doctors then couldn't find the source of the problem and released me from their care. Fast forward to this year and I receive the same symptoms, but this time they could identify the problem and decided to implant a pacemaker in me.

I've been expe...

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Heart murmur

Hello everyone,  i have been having insomina for about a week now,  i thought it's because i was abit worried about some procedures i have next week. I have also been have chest and upper back heaviness since 3 days ago, i have been dealing with it with pain killers and acupunture, last night the pain get worst.i had to go into the hospital, blood texts were normal , ecg with sinus arrhymia , sinus bradycardia with sinus arrhymia and so on. This morning the doctor listened to my...

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Can't do much better than Traceye's bucket list, but I wanted to post about something that is of concern to me

COULD BE SOMETHING VERY SIGNIFICANT IN A COMMENT BY  zawodniak2 - TYRX Antibactereral Envelope - PLEASE TAKE A LOOK.

BUT - Could be a concern -

http://www.massdevice.com/fda-warns-medtronics-tyrx-anti-bacterial-envelopes/

No more from me on this - just something to consider.

Here on the PacemakerClub and also on Facebook, I read through what seems to be lot of c...

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SVC syndrome

Hi there- 

Anyone have much experience with SVC syndrome? I seem to have developed a very large blood clot in my SVC which was causing a 90% occlusion of the vein. After finding this out, it seems like there is some sense to the vague symptoms that have been bothering me for years. Tightness in my throat, swelling in my face, pressure in my head, swelling in my hands. I just had a 10 cm stent placed in my SVC and seem to be doing better- hard to tell when I'm not supposed...

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Surgery

Hello Everyone, i am 39 years old and 7 weeks out of icd implant.

I am going to have endoscopy, colonoscopy and i am really worried, about complications because of the icd and the endoscopy require sedation.

Has anyone had surgery or endoscopy that requires sedation? Please let me know if there is any complication.

Any feedbacks would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Helen.

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Metropolol and neck pain

I have not been here in a long while.First was my wife was here with  several complications with AFib and finally an AV block and Pacemaker. We both have Medtronic Pacermakers, mine for low heart rate.

in May and June I became dizzy on golf course and pretty much 'out of it' with my agressive 84 year old life style. So cardio did treadmill and said I have SVT and put me on Metropolol 50 er.  Its been wonderful with now playing a full 18 holes and no dizzyeness. 

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A Painful Story

Hello group.  My name is Matt and I am a new arrival here.  My wife had an ICD implanted in August 2015 following unsuccessful EP studies and a subsequent out-of-hospital cardiac arrest which I ressucitated her from (and implanted again in September 2015 and again in May 2016 because the first two procedures had been messed up). The second procedure left my wife in life-long chronic pain.

Arrhythmia-wise, she is now very stable (touch wood) but the complications from her...

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Diaphragm Pacing

Since a few months I have been experiencing diaphragm pacing. It's like I have the hiccups but without the sound. They lowered the amplitude a few times. The first few weeks it seems to help, but than the diaphragm pacing comes back again. It mostly happends when I lay down on my right side (on the sofa or at night in bed; it wakes me up) or after I have eaten something. You can even see it from the outside;

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Pain laying down

Hi all, 

    I had my 5th pacemaker fitted about a month and a half ago and ever since have been having an EXTREMELY hard sleeping. I had the surgery bc my pocket was loose and the old PM was slightly moving, causing irritation and inflammation. Now that is all gone and the new PM has been placed under my pectoral. Given that I've had this surgery several times and know what to expect, the having pain laying down (side, back, anything) is concerning. I've heard of...

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Medtronic Pacemaker Burned Hole in My Chest

I'm searching for a law firm who handles medical device and medical malpractice specifically with Medtronic Pacemakers.  Does anyone have any referrals?

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Pacemaker

I had a pacemaker fired on 25 July  and went wrong my heart sack was pearced and was rushed back in to have the blood drained I felt so ill I thought I was dying after 3 days sent home only home for 1hour and I was short of breath just came home yesterday hoping things will improve has any body had this experience 

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PM replacement

My PM ia about 1 month before ERI. I just got confirmed as having a shingles outbreak. Should the PM replacement proceed?

 

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Constant tiredness

I had a full heart block in Nov 2016. I had my pacemaker fitted and was informed that I would essentially be back to normal. I am 48 I have an active job and used to exercise regularly and play sport.

 

Since my implantation I have been constantly tired and seem to be getting worse. My knee and elbow joints ache and any kind of exertion leaves me exhausted.

 

My cardiologist is considering implanting a 3 lead pacemaker as she's states this should assist m...

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Response to AFIB EVENTS AFTER PM IMPLANT

Thank you to those who responded to my posted concerns of having additional AFib events after getting my pacemaker. I saw MY cardiologist on Friday for the first time since getting the PM. He said the episodes (had another one on Saturday) are due to my heart racing not my AFib. The meds to slow my heart were not working and my PM had been left with just factory settings. He also felt that the reason I was still in so much pain was because the device was  placed far too hi...

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Leg and joint aches

It's been 8 weeks since pacemaker was inserted.  Last week my knee joints and lower legs began to ache and tingle off and on.  Has anyone had issues with legs after surgery?  I took extra CoQ and vitamin D.  It seemed to help my joints a little but my legs from the knee down to my ankles still ache and tingle off and on.

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AFIB episode after pacemaker implantation

I am completely new to the world of pacemakers as mine was implanted last Friday by a Dr. I never met before and it was deemed immediately necessary by another cardiologist filling in for mine who was out of town at the time.  I was wearing a heart monitor which picked up events showing my heart was "pausing" for periods of 4.7- 6 seconds multiple times in a period of 3 hours and In other minutes of the same episode beating between 250-300 times a minute. On Tuesday the st...

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Why does it still hurt?

Hey there! I'm new to the pacemaker club and I hate it. I had my pacemaker put in on 4/24/17 after I went into cardiac arrest twice from sudden onset sick sinus syndrome. I'm a 23 year old female and they placed my pacemaker very far over on my left chest area. It's so far over that it sticks out under my armpit. It's extremely uncomfortable and even painful at times even now 3 months later. I still have to sleep with my left arm resting on a pillow and I can no longer lay on...

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Pacemaker post surgery issues

I had my pacemaker placed almost 3 months ago. I had pleurisy soon as I got home from hospital. Also have had tingling in left arm since. About 6 weeks after placement I began having severe numbness and tightness in my left jaw and cheek and neck. My left cheek is puffy and I am now hoarse all the time. Neither my primary care nor my cardiologist will say what it is. They sent me to EAR NOSE THROAT and he did not know either. I have been to ER twice and had ultrasound and CT and CTA scan--non...

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Left arm pain

Hello Everyone,

My wife undergone pacemaker surgery last year on April 2016. She has dual chamber pacemaker. She still complain left arm pain, stiffness, she feels as if the whole left part of the body(from the tip of left arm till the foot) is injured when we talked about this to our pacemaker surgeon/doctor he says nothing to be worried, but my wife says such uneasyness was never there prior to surgery till a few months she was insisting for disassembling the permanent pacemaker...

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