New Just Saying Hi

Hi I am new and just had my first pacemaker put in on 6/6/13 so not even a month out. I am 24years old but still have trouble believing how much of a new person I feel like. I am sleeping better and no longer looking and feeling like the walking dead. I am starting to feel worried though because they said the pacemaker may help alittle but there are times when you start to feel better after having the pacemaker implanted but then go back to feeling bad again and they still don't know if its going to help my kidneys or not I go see the nephrologist Friday to hope to find more out about my kidneys. I guess i could tell yall that i have been on metoprolol since i was like 12years old for what i was told was just severe episodes of unusual tachy well as i got older the tachy got worse and then they started worrying about it jumping from tachy to brady but said brady wasnt to bad well i traveled alot in the usa doing construction so have been to many cardiologist who all say i have a different arrhythmia or heart problem until i ended up in the cardiac unit for 3weeks were they had lots of trouble keeping my heart rate below 200 so the ep did an ablation which he thought would help but after the ablation went from one problem to the next now back to the different arrhythmia and was told now i have sss which is to be said i have had a long time and was just being misdiagnosed all I know is that this is the best i have felt ever in my life i am starting to feel like a somewhat normal 24year old girl but still feel worried after hearing the comment that hopefully this will last and not take a turn for the worst. Hoping to hear good news from the nephrologist on Friday. Glad to be a part of this group and look forward to making new friends
Mary Katherine

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Thanks for the welcome

by bearss27 - 2013-06-26 06:06:17

I do appreciate having a place to talk to people and read about others having similar issues. It was actual kinda funny the cardiologist that implanted my pacemaker was actually I kinda hate to say it but kinda scared to put it in my. I thnk this was for a few reasons. When it was first discused it was due to being in the hospital feeling very week with extreme bradycardia. When this happened he decided to put the zio patch on for two weeks but after I sent it in I took a turn for the worst before he got the results back and he was trying to tell me it wasnt my heart but had scheduled me for pacemake but then canceled cause he wanted to wait to get the results back from the zio. Well when he got the results back from the zio he didnt even argue it was this is what we are doing and scheduled right away. The other day when I had the pacemaker checked for the first time the doc wasnt there so when I went to see hime 3days later he looked at the paper and then acted like the paper must have been wrong and made me go to another room for him to physcically check it himself which turned out to my amusment very funny cause when the results came up on the screen his reaction was priceless. All he could mutter was its running alot with alot of different episodes. He then said lets sit down not sure if he thought I needed to sit down or him but anyway I wouldnt be surprised if after I left he had the machines checked to see if they were reading properly. The rest of my visit consist more of repeat asking your feeling better then I would say ya alot better and he would mutter a no wonder. The only thing that really got my attention was the morning after the surgery when the assistant came in and said to the nurse its a good thing we put it in when we did at this piont I really didnt want to find out why was just happy to be feeling better. He told me I was the youngest person he had to put a pacemaker in and I really feel this had more to do with his caution on actually doing it but I think he is being like what some doctors are like not wanting to fully just come out and say he was somewhat wrong when he first met me on what was really going on and why I felt so bad but he really is a great doctor and very willing to do something when he knows its really needed but not willing to admit when he misunderstood but I still wouldnt trade him for anyone else.
Mary Katherine

Welcome MK

by Grateful Heart - 2013-06-26 12:06:16

Glad you are feeling so much better, that's great to hear. These really are amazing devices aren't they? I have SSS too.

You have a great, positive attitude, that is so important in recovery. There are many members here who feel so much better after their PM/ ICD implant. Keep that attitude and hopefully your kidneys will improve now that your heart if functioning so much better.

Prayers for a good report from your Doctor on Friday and again....Welcome.

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I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for pacemakers. I've had mine for 35+ years. I was fainting all of the time and had flat-lined also. I feel very blessed to live in this time of technology.