Anybody actually speak up to their doctor??

• by 6efrau
• 2011-01-18 04:01:29
• Checkups & Settings
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It's been a couple of months since I was last on this site. I didn't find too many answers to my questions or comfort for my fears. I guess I just needed to come to terms with how my life had suddenly been changed overnight. Of course, I told my doctor a couple of weeks ago that "My pacemaker and I have not become friends yet." My friend suggested I should take it out for a stiff drink, talk to it and get to know it better.

I had my 3 month check-up a couple of weeks ago and I had been back at 7 weeks to dial back my voltage. When I talked to my doctor about the inability to sleep through the night since the surgery, because the pacemaker wakes me up when it kicks on, he claimed he had never heard of such a thing. I see here on the blog that I am not alone in this and yet the doctor acts like I am odd.

I had posted here previously about the electrical shocks I receive at times and those who replied told me to get back to the doctor because something could be wrong with the leads. Hence the reason for the 7 week check-up. Well, the doctor said I was fine and again he had never heard of such a thing. He told me I was simply feeling the pacemaker kick on. I explained that this was not the case because I know the difference between the thud of the pacemaker causing my heart to beat and an electrical shock as though I put my finger into a light socket. The doctor thinks it is all in my head. My husband inquired if there was anyone working in the office that had a pacemaker and of course there wasn't. So my husband asked how it was then that they could "know" what I was or wasn't feeling.

Since dialing back the voltage at least those electrical shocks don't hurt as much. They are more of an annoyance than anything now. I contacted the manufacturer and they sent me a booklet on EMF which actually states that at times you may feel an "electrical shock" and to simply move away from the item emitting the EMF. The worst was when my Aunt came to visit and I walked past the bathroom as she was blow drying her hair. I nearly was knocked to the floor by the zap. Needless to say no one is allowed to use anything other than my CHI low EMF hairdryer now.

Solution: I spent $120 on an EMF blocking t-shirt that is silver and cotton woven together. Not even the magnet from my phone kit will pace my heart through that thing. I puchased low EMF cordless phones from Siemens and threw out the old ones. I told my teenage children they had to keep all cellphones, laptops, nooks, i-phones, i-pads, etc. in their bedrooms and not allowed anywhere else in the house. So, little bit by little bit, I am eliminating the electrical zapping.