cant get the setting right

• by Yvvy
• 2012-12-10 05:12:47
• Complications
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Hi, am new to this site. I am a 58 year old female. Last year I had aortic valve replacement surgery, aortic repair, developed a blood clot , then had pacemaker installed all within 2 weeks. The pacemaker has been an emotional battle for me because I was not prepared for it, I am thin and it sticks out of the skin which is uncomfortable. I am not an athlete by any means but I do exercise almost daily and when its nice outside I like to take leisure bike rides. I started out with the normal pacemaker settings but kept going into 2 n 1 block, or as I prefer to called it "getting slammed". They kept adjusting the setting but the slamming kept on happening. They called in the reps (boston scientific) they set the top # to 160 and did some tweaking. I have had the strangest things happen since this setting. I wear an oximeter when I excersice so that I can give them as much details as I can to what is happening. On my eliptical I get slammed around the 140 range. I feel it first then I watch the oximeter slide down to the 70 range and stay there. If I stop for a few minutes it jumps back up into the 120 range. Last time I was bike riding I got 1.5 miles from home, pulse was at 186, and I felt like someone poured concrete all over me. They tested my oximeter and it is properly working. Today I did not get slammed while excersing but when I was walking up stairs I almost passed out. I just want to get on with my life and not have to keep dealing with this. Has anyone else had these problems and if so what did they do to get you on the right track. thanks