I will officially join the club tomorrow!

I am ready but slightly nervous. Send me your luck and prayers, please!

Thank you,


Lauren

17 Comments

Good Luck !

by Kriscon41 - 2014-01-13 11:01:01

Good luck,
it will be a week tomorrow since mine, You will be fine. Prayers and good thoughts your way. :)

Good luck

by Bostonstrong - 2014-01-13 11:01:01

Hope everything goes smoothly

The best of luck

by Duke999 - 2014-01-13 11:01:09

Hi Lauren, wish you have a smooth procedure. Post us a message right afterwards, you hear?
Good luck :-)

Duke

Hope everything goes well !

by Theknotguy - 2014-01-13 11:01:11

Theknotguy

Lauren

by jeanlancour - 2014-01-13 11:01:51

Thouights and prayers are with you, you'll be fine.

Well, no surgery for me today.

by LGP - 2014-01-14 05:01:41

They refused to give me a pacemaker today because I am so young, even though we had discussed it and had the appointment scheduled for awhile now. They want me to take two different types of medications for three months before they'll do anything.

Hi LGP....................

by Tattoo Man - 2014-01-14 06:01:30


........................welcome aboard ! I hope that all goes well.

Let us know how it went.

Tattoo Man

Huhm..

by Duke999 - 2014-01-14 07:01:16

May be that's a good idea. I hope your journey ends up that you don't need a PM. Good luck. Keep us posted.
Take care.

Duke

Good Luck!!!

by valley01 - 2014-01-14 08:01:30

Sending you positive thoughts! You'll do fine. Welcome to the club :)

That sounds like….

by MelodyMarch - 2014-01-14 09:01:55

An insurance requiring more proof and data before they take the "drastic" step of implanting a pacemaker. My guess is that they put you on a beta blocker and midodrine today since you said earlier that your history is vasovagal. If they didn't put you on a beta blocker they may have put you on florinef.

Have you had a tilt table, Holter test and all of those? Seems weird that they would approve you for surgery only to cancel at the last moment.

That said, jump through their hoops, and if you are still feeling crummy, passing out and such be an advocate for yourself. The medications helped me for awhile, but then I deteriorated, and getting a pacemaker was the best thing that ever happened to me. You do not realize how much you have to compensate, until you don't have to anymore.

Do figure out what went on today, I still think that is really odd.

Midodrine

by LGP - 2014-01-14 11:01:43

I have already been on Midodrine. They told me that I should gain more weight and suggested that I take Ritalin. I hate to completely disagree with the doctor, but there is no way that I am taking such an addictive drug that has so many side effects. I have had a halter monitor four times all with the same results of my heart pausing multiple times, and my heart stopped for 40 seconds during my tilt table test. I am just so frustrated with all of this.

Good luck

by Moner - 2014-01-14 12:01:02

Hi LGP,

I have you in my prayers today.

Please tell us how it went asap.

Moner

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welcome official joiner

by tojo - 2014-01-15 01:01:13

My prayers are with you. I was nervous as well but at the same time grateful that medical technology has allowed me to have this "insurance policy" against the heart block not being overcome by the heart muscle when needed. It was not in my plan to have this happen, and in fact, I have had to cancel several trips and 3 months of golfing! That said, I continue to enjoy my grandchildren, my church choir, dinner with friends and cycling with my wife so life is not so bad. Best wishes to you for a complete and speedy recovery.

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by manaman - 2014-01-15 08:01:16

By the way, you are already a MEMBER! Welcome aboard!
Cecil

change of plans

by manaman - 2014-01-15 08:01:55

. I can definitely relate to your issue!
Some 20 years ago I went thru the same mess.
Was not able to work 19 out of 24 months because of a pulse rate of 29 bpm with passing out.
I had the positive tilt table test and was even coded while an EKG was being done. One dr. told me I was physical fit because I was very athletic and I should loose some weight and got furious when I requested a second opinion. I was told by another cardio dr. that I needed a PM but it was to risky and was put on several b eta blockers. I worm so many loop recorders that I felt as if I was living in a leach pond! One cardio dr at a major medical center lost me,my records and wanted to program PM that I did not have! Then I went to another major medical center and had a PM in 9 days!
Bottom line is this: a doctor is a POWERFUL person, you ain't alive unless he/she says so and you ain't dead unless he/she says so. He/she can take you out of work and put back to work BUT they are NOT GOD (even though some think they are). SO, if you are not satisfied with your present dr. please change same You and only you know how you feel and how you function. Look for signs on the walls of a doctors office and pay attention as to whether he/she is a christian person or not.
I asked one if he could fix my problem and he immediately pointed to his name tag and said "this says MD not GOD". This the doctor I chose and I haven't changed in 20 years!
Please follow your instincts and control your destiny, you will NEVER regret your decision!
Good luck!
Cecil



















Thank you so much Cecil.

by LGP - 2014-01-15 11:01:02

It sounds like you were put through a lot of the same things that I have been. I've lost jobs from passing out, and I have been told that I wasn't aloud to work by my doctors. I have been to five different cardiologist, and everyone of them but one said that I needed a pacemaker. I keep getting so close to getting it just to be told that I can't. I've dealt with six years of passing out, and I am just ready to not have to worry about what I am going to fall into next. I am Catholic, but I haven't seen one doctor around here with any form of religious symbol.

WOW!

by Moner - 2014-01-16 06:01:15

I can't believe you were denied coverage, after a 40 second sinus arrest.

I don't know where you're from, but when I was hemming and hawing about have a pacemaker, I was given NO choice, and I only had a 22 second sinus arrest.

I believe the criteria in America is anything over 6 seconds makes you a canidate for a pacemaker for insurances purposes.

I was told that if I didn't get a pacemaker, I wasn't allowed to drive for 3 months. All this stemmed from was a stomach virus.

I hope you get to the bottom of this, for your own health.

Moner
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