irregular beats

Hi everybody, I am new to this site. I’m still having irregular beats; so tired of being woken up by it and able to feel it skipping most of the time. Does anyone else find this to be happening to you?

PM is a year old I have had many ablations, two maze procedures, conversions, open heart to repair two valves, and the afib got a little better but still suffering from CHF so went with av node ablation and PM.  I’m 51 and work full time as a chef even with all of this, so my question is:  do i just need to "suck it up " or ask dr to go back on more meds with more side effects? Any advice?

Thank you all, thanks for this site as well.

2 Comments

It isn't the pacemaker

by ElectricFrank - 2012-04-22 02:04:24

With all the procedures you have had it's not surprising that you have problems sleeping. Unfortunately, there comes a point where some things just can't be fixed.

You are actually doing quite well being able to continue your full time job. Are you sure you are just letting it get to you? That's not blaming you for the problems. It just that our reaction to a run of some arrhythmia can rattle us up which just makes things worse. That's the one place where we have some control.

I sure agree that the meds while they might make some things better, they male other things worse.

I wish I could offer more.

frank

Same problem but not the same problem!

by cendmat - 2012-04-22 09:04:52

I used to suffer a lot from getting waken up by tachycardia. I compared it to beeing waken up by some speed metal music (type Slayer on the Youtube site), full volume.

I still get tachycardia episodes but not as much as I used to and not as bad as they used to be since my EP has put me on Sotalol.

I guess that it wouldn't be a good medication for you (I have a defib, not a pacemaker) but I'm sure that there is a pill you could take to help diminish those annoying episodes that you are experiencing. Ask your EP.

Cend

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