lead problems

Im sorry, but obviously my last post did't go, or the last. Never mind, just a glitch in the matrix. I am 47 years old and I am on my 6th pacemaker, but untill 2007 I was on single chamber. Since then till now, it looks like my third atrial lead replacement. I live in Ireland so it is not so easy for second opinion to be found except outside the the country. I am going to Papworth in the UK next week for a second opinion, anyone have any thoughts what I might do..?

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What's going on?

by ldebaugh - 2012-12-31 10:12:38

I'm not sure I understand your question. Is it that you believe your atrial lead has failed? What are your symptoms? What did you experience when you had your atrial lead replaced previously? Did they actually replace it or just add a new one? Do you have 3 atrial leads in your heart?

ahh.

by majellasharkey - 2013-01-04 08:01:43

I am on my 6th genorator but have 3rd atrial lead since 2012/11/05 not sure if I did dates right for over there but it was last may I had my last upgrade. It just seems strange that I was on a single lead pacing from 1995 till 2007 when I had experineced such bad pacemaker syndrome, so they decided to up-grade to a dual chamber. So since that a fracture in 2009 fracture developed in my lead with symptoms of under/over sensing, I had a lead extraction and a new lead inserted, then in mid last year same symtoms, which was three years later, but yes same results. But this time they didn't try to remove the lead they just capped and inserted another.
And now at the beginning of December, I noticed the same symptoms slowing creeping in and the more I did with my left arm the more pronounced. I seen my cardiologist in Dublin just before Christmas and he tweaked the sensitivity which he says will by me time by in the interim be 'mindful'!! I have now been urged by my gp to have an external evaluation in England so I go there next Tuesday. At the moment in Dublin they are considering moving the whole plant to my right side but they say since the ventricle lead in in situ so long they may have to open the rib cage.
sorry that my first post was so ambiguous, but I was flummoxed, and it is different here in an Island like ours with such a small population there is not so much expertise.
Sorry I babbled!!
nite, I need to go to bed.

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by Neat - 2013-05-16 04:05:56

Hi Majella,
just wandering around here after about 4/5 years and found you (can't see any others that I might have recognised).
Hope that everything is going well with you ~ how did you get on in UK (looking at your note above!).
Really hope you and yours are all good.
Love,
Anita.
(Galway)

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