3rd Day After Implantation-pain?

Implanted below my pectoral muscle. More pain than I expected.

Pacing 100% and nothing below 80 bpm.

Any suggestions?

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1 Comments

Normal

by golden_snitch - 2014-05-19 04:05:55

Hi!

It's quite normal to experience pain three days after a subpectoral implant. It takes a while for the muscle to "forgive" the damage done during the surgery. Depending on the approach, the surgeon has cut into the muscle, and later stitched this cut up again; he has torn at the muscle; the pacemaker is now rubbing against the muscle (after a while the body will create a kind of capsule around the pacemaker). After my last two subpectoral placements, I was on a good amount of painkillers for at least 5-7 days, the first two or three days I even needed opiates.

Sounds like your base rate has been programmed at 80bpm. Might be a little too high, most people have it at 50-70, depending also on what their resting heart rate was before surgery. If you feel uncomfortable with a resting heart rate of 80, let your cardio know. It's easy to program it a little lower.

Hope you get better soon!

Inga

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