Violin, I am confused.....

Violin,

Your post states you are still "winded" and ask for input from club members. Yet in a comment to Michelle Susan's post you state you are a PHYSICIAN and advise her to get a 2nd opinion. Why would you not follow your own advice and see your EP or seek another opinion? Don't you have medical care immediately available to you? Surely you have colleagues you can go to for opinions. Can you see why I say I am confused? Good luck and God bless.

7 Comments

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by jessie - 2007-11-24 01:11:23

certainly not certinly sorry

oh yes

by jessie - 2007-11-24 01:11:54

yes you know just because you are a doctor i imagine like me i am a nurse and was in a specialty. i knew spit about pacemakers i can tell you. you have been to your primary and he has told you the sob will subside?so carry on if this is so and at at the end of the day which is probably not certinly about 3 months the energy really comes back. take care violin jessie

I'm Not confused

by IanMcC - 2007-11-24 02:11:44

Hi, I believe just because someone is a physican does not mean that have experiance being a pacer, or have any idea what it is like or what we go through or what to expect, I have found that even my heart doctor doesn't understand some issues.
For some answers to the many questions I had before and still have after becoming a pacer, I have found that the people here are the experts. There is such a collection of knowledge here, from the many different types of heart problems that almost any question can be answered. There is no such thing as a dumb question regardless of who asks it and every question deserves an answer.
Take care all, Ian.

No Confusion Here

by Carol - 2007-11-24 03:11:11

Hi Violin and fellow PM members! I can certainly understand Violin's need to hear from fellow PM recipients...Dr. or not! I am a RN with a specialty other than cardiology. Our doctors give us the technical info, but unless they have had a PM implanted too, they can't begin to give us the practical and human side of what to expect that we've ALL needed from time-to-time...that of course comes from this website and each other! I hate to admit it, but I have been guilty in the past of thinking, "Oh, Mr. so-and-so "just" had a PM-no big deal". I can assure you I will never say that again!
I am in my 8th week post implant and for the first few weeks especially, you were all invaluable to me as I worried and whined! I am just now beginning to feel more like myself...a little less winded, and a little less anxious...although I still have some rough spots. So ask away Violin, hang in there, and give yourself time.
Carol

RN here too

by scpck - 2007-11-24 08:11:32

Jessie is absolutely right. Just because you work in the profession does NOT mean you know how the patient feels. I worked primarily orthopaedics all my career as a Nurse. Guess what? When I had my "cardiogenic seizure" in August that led to my pacer, I dislocated my shoulder. I tore my rotator cuff and chipped humerus head. Guess what too? All those years of ortho mean dip.
It HURTS!! And I have to have surgery on it. Oh "just a......" no such thing.
Violin I am not an athlete like you, but I do send my best wishes that you get un-winded soon.

thanks for your comments from violin

by VIOLIN - 2007-11-24 11:11:10

Thanks and yes i have been to the EP and medtronics tech twice and it has only been one week. actually everything looks good from the perspective of the device and the ep office is happy with healing and progress. Still, i am used to being active and i can only think that i am expecting too much, too soon with regard to my fitness level. i did walk today for two miles and felt like my fitness level has a chance...only problem was i walked kind of slowly like an eighty year old.

anyway, being a doctor is not always easy when you are dealing with something of this magnitude.
thanks for your concern but my ep and tech seems to blow it off and i just wanted input from other people experiencing this procedure to determine when i could be me again.
violin


Do you play the violin?

by mandogrl - 2007-11-27 09:11:35

Or do you just want to "feel fit as a fiddle?"
Hang in there. The 1st 4 weeks post-PM I barely picked up my mandolin, because I was feeling so sore and discouraged (and that's not like me). Now I'm back to being a mando-animal. Not saying I'm good, but playing and learning every day. :~)

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