Tachycardia

Just curious if anyone has a pm because of tachycardia, I had my pm implanted at age 15 because my heart would literally just stop beating (not skipping beats, just stop) and my resting heart rate was upwards to 140 bpm just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience :) thanks!!

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I know what its like

by mattsond34 - 2014-02-10 03:02:53

I have an icd now because of my heart stopping during v fib. I dont have a high resting rate lile you have but the episode I had caused me to pass out everytime my heart stopped. Its scary stuff but since I got my icd all of my tachycardia episodes have stopped on their own. Good luck to you. It will get better.

Yes and no

by Theknotguy - 2014-02-10 10:02:42

I had the PM implanted because of an "undefined" event where my heart did some funny stuff (they don't know what) and I passed out. When the EMT's got to me my heart rate was 20 and it stopped in the ambulance. They had a hard time restarting my heart. Finally implanted a temporary pacemaker to get my heart restarted. So the first event was a bradycardia type event.

After they implanted my permanent PM, I went into a-fib where the heart went up to 140bpm while just sitting in bed. Had to go to ER and have a cardizem drip to slow the heart rate down to normal. It was a-fib with RVR.

So I kinda mirror your symptoms of having the heart stop beating and then getting tachycardia. In one sense I had things similar to you.

Don't know if this is what you're looking for or not.

In the meantime, glad to be alive and have a wonderful piece of machinery that keeps me that way.

At your age 15 you are expected to live to at least 100. You've got a lot of living to do. Hope you can go out and enjoy life.

Theknotguy

Thanks!

by Kdalton - 2014-02-10 12:02:50

Yes scary stuff at 15 but I'm almost 24 now living a full life :) I still have those periods of tachycardia but not as often as before my normal resting is around 100 sometimes high but yes, very lucky and glad to be alive!

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