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palpitations and rapid heartbeat

hi everyone...

my mom has a Metronic Adapta Pacemaker since July and she has been having heart palpitations and her pulse sometimes gets a bit high...she also complains about feeling the pacemaker kicks in... and it being a really uncomfortable and hard to describe strange feeling...shes discussed these concerns with the doctor but he says that theres not much he can do about these issues.....because the pacemaker is put in to avoid fainting and that some people just experience these...

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Thanks and technical advice needed

First of all I wanted to say thanks to all of you who gave me advice 3 weeks ago about having my first pacemaker fitted. It was great to hear from people who have had real experience of them, rather than the medical staff who just tell you what to expect. Anyway I had it fitted so now I can join you as a fully fledged member.

It's been 3 weeks now and I'm still ever so stiff and have lots of muscular pain. Probably overdoing it, as I have 2 young children and am still cleaning, coo...

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Adjustments can make a difference

Check my latest Gallery photo to see what happened when I got the adjustments right. LOL

frank

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hate this feeling

So as I have posted the last couple weeks I have had some complications post AV node ablation (particulary pericarditis). I spent 2 hours in the cardiology office last week and ended up coming out with a new mode of pacing. I feel absolutely terrible with this new mode. I cant find any way to descibe it other than it feels like my two ventricles are complelely out of sync. I know that is rare, but possible. Maybe my atria and ventricle is out of sync. I dont know. I know that they switche...

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Me again!

So I posted a while back that I was to have a CT scan....Well I have received my results and not too sure whether it's soething i should be worried about.
A bit of background:
1993: Previous repair of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (secundum ASD with right pulmonary venous drainage to high superior vena cava - baffling of right sided pulmonary vein across atrial septum to left atrium through the ASD)
1995: Post op sinus node disorder with junctional rhythum and junc...

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??s about my first Pacing Report

My #s 8 days post-op Medtronic Kappa KDR401
DDDR mode-on

AS -VS 39.3%
AS -VP 0.3
AP-VS 56.9
AP -VP 3.4

My question is - How much am I pacing? According to the Nurse who ran the tests I am pacing 56.9% in the atrial and 3.4% in the ventrical. My diagnosis was chronotropic incompetence and SSS, and I saw a note in my hospital chart about sinusbradycaria...

I saw some recent posts from Frank and Inga and I was hoping for some feedback on my...

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Pacer Checkup

I have a question about the pacer checkup (interogation). Can an checkup (interogation) be read incorrectly? I had a checkup in late June. I have a dual lead Metronic pacemaker for 3rd degree heart block and have had it for 6-1/2 years now. I have always pacer around 30% pacer / 70% natural in the upper chamber and 70% pacer / 30% natural in the lower chamber. During my last checkup my lower chamber reading changed to pacing in the 90% range. During this interogation the technican did not put th...

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Dual to single

Hey guys,
as you know i've been having a few problems with my pm with what I thought are palpitations and really uncomfortable. For the 13yrs of having a pm I have always had a single chamber up until 2yrs ago when I was impanted with a dual chamber pm. I had never ever experienced this weird sensation like i have been since the upgrade and they have spent the whole 2yrs trying to work out what the problem is!! But it turns out that I only use the ventricular lead 1% of the time and the a...

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Who has stopped seeing cardiologists?

Who has stopped seeing the cardiologist?

Maybe I went back to work too quick, but I think I am at the end of a 40 hr week. I barely make it thru the day and I don't function well when I am at work.

At home, I can't do normal work like cooking, cleaning, laundry and the yard work I loved is too difficult.

The cardio does not seem to be helping, his offer was to increase the proamtine which has bad side effects.

I am thinking of eliminating seeing him....

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Thanks for the % pacing answers

Thanks Frank and Inga for your thoughts and the comments you gave me. Of course it helped!

Just you to know me better: my symptoms started around age 36 - my heart rate was 35, I felt weak and dizzy all the time. It went lower and lower (20) until I was fainting. They made all the tests (ECG, ECO, tilt test, Holter) and the diagnose was I had bradycardia and also SSS.

I have a (DDDR) PM that helped until now to keep a regular beat -and it was really useful, if I may say it!...

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Check up questions.

My husband goes in for a pacer check in a week.

After reading all the posts on here I was hoping anyone could help me come up with a list of questions we should ask the doctor. Things most people would like to know.

I want to find out what his low threshhold setting is?
EF %?
How often it is pacing him?

I am lost on what we should be asking. I know I am going to ask for a copy of everything.

Thanks in advance.

Wendy

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Answer about Pacing %

Hi to all!! I took a long time to contact you again for healthy reasons...but now I am back. I have a question I never understood well, related with how much Pacing percentage I am doing. In my last Quick look report it says:
Pacing (%of total)
AS-VS 87.3%
AS-VP <0.1%
AP-VS 0.8%
AP-VP 11.9%
My PM was implanted (April 2001) because I have Sick-sinus-Syndrome. Can somebody explain me what those parameters mean? I know that Pacing % depends on the condition the patient...

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Echograms

It's difficult getting answers during check-ups. Do you know about this?

My electrophysiologist requested that I have an echogram once a year during my visit to my cardiologist. I had total heart block, but also have four moderate leaky valves.

If you are totally reliant, are you having a yearly echogram as well? I'm not sure if it's because of my PM or my leaky valves.

Thanks.

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holidays

Does anyone know if i can book a holiday today only five and a half after pace maker fitted ? Have got my hospital check this Thursday but have seen a bargain and want to book it now, dare I risk it .

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PM Battery Check-up

In India, there is a practice that the supplier of Medtronic PM provides, by appointment, free of cost PM Battery check-ups and settings, as and when requested by the PM user.
How about USA/ Canada?
I am currently visiting USA and wish to undergo battery check-up, as a matter of routine.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks

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3 Month Phone Checkup

I have my 3 month phone checkup on Wednesday 8/5/09. My ? is ,are there any surprises that I should be aware of? There are some questions that I should ask my Dr. concerning some minor discomfort in the top of my left shoulder at times and a brief period of SOB after walking up 3 flights of stairs which I sometimes do after my 4 mile walk and 1 hour in the gym.I think that I may be over doing it a bit.By the way ,my pulse rate averages between 62 to 72,which is up from 37 to 42 before PM.Maybe n...

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Voltage on PM

I had a PM implanted 1-1/2 months ago. I've healed up real good and I'm just about back to normal accept for one thing. Occasionally, my heart rate skyrockets. At first, when I called the doctor's office to report what had happen, they said I was most likely going through an adjustment period.

After several episodes, I kept track of dates and times and what my activity was at the time. These "episodes" were lasting up to 20 - 30 minutes at a time. I would feel a "ticking" at the...

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What is the pm doing

I have not completely understood what the pm is doing when it is checking or testing itself every day. Mine cheks (makes rather uncomfortable pounding sensations) itself every 8 hours on the dot. In addition to that, it does something similar almost every day, what seems to me at random. It doesn't actually hurt, but it doesn't feel very good either. The doctor just said that if he changed the tests to every 24 hours, there would be risk of fainting. What could the extra 'thumps' be about? If I...

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Feel ill after check-ups ??

Hi PM friends

Just had another routine PM check-up and have come away feeling worse than previously. I have a Guidant dual chamber PM and did have to undergo some complex tweaking because of twitching. However that was all sorted in February and from then until last Wednesday I was feeling GREAT. However, I went for the check-up, explained to them all about the twitching and asked them not to change any of the settings etc.
Since then I have been experiencing a horrible heart thu...

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checkups by other physicians

I may be having a pacemaker installed in a city where I have my summer residence, however I go to Florida for about 6 months. I have a physician there and have seen a cardiolgist
there also. Once this thing is installed can checkups and monitoring, adjustments etc. be done someplace else.

thanks

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