Recovery Still?

• by Heather1234
• 2010-10-04 01:10:54
• Surgery & Recovery
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• 4 comments

So I had surgery for a PM in June 2010. My first PM. You all have welcomed me with open arms and offered up great advice with some of my physical and personal issues. I appreciate it more than you could imagine. It's hard to talk to somebody who doesn't know what you are going through. As much as they try to support you, its just not the same as talking to somebody who has a PM.

With that being said, as I mentioned, my PM surgery was 6/2/10 and I am actually coping much better now with the visual appearence of it which was hard for me at first. I am on the slim side and there is NO hiding the fact I have a PM. But my concern today is, I have been to my Doc several times for checkups since then. She was a bit concerned the last couple times due to the PM turning freely in the pocket and not having the scar tissue hardened around it. It spins around and around in there and she was worried the leads will eventually be pulled out. But the last check up (just 2 weeks ago) she said it was in the same spot as when she checked last and she just wanted to follow up every couple months. Since that visit, I find myself waking up in the middle of the night with extreme stiffness and pain over and around the PM. No matter what side I have been laying on or on my back, it is so sore I actually grimace in pain when I try to move my left arm or turn to a new position in bed. Then during the day, while sitting at my computer at work, it happens again. Very stiff and sore. Almost like a torn muscle or a muscle i haven't worked out in a really long time. No change in daily activities that I can think of. Nothing strenuous. Then in just the last couple days, I will get the same stiffness and soreness accompanied with muscle CONTRACTIONS and the occasional "electrical jolt" that gives my entire body visual goose pimples. My PM doesn't VFIB by the way. Just a plain ol PM. Does anybody know what this means. I am sure I could call my Doc and relay a message, wait for her to call me back and have her tell me this is normal. But is it really? Has anybody else experienced these symptoms? Do they last forever? Why do I feel like this? Even now as I type this, the site and left side of my chest becomes tight and sore. Like I am lifting weights or something. Please help with some sort of clarification. Thanks friends.