One week post-surgery

Hi all. Very glad I found this site! I am 65 and was diagnosed with atrical fib a few years ago. It is well controlled. However, I developed sleep apnea and my pulse began dropping into the low 30's at night and in the morning. Wore a monitor for a month and it showed sinus pauses at night as long as 7 seconds. Solution: pacemaker. I got 2 opinions and ran it by my primary care doc.
My heart was also not responding to exercise. No matter how far I walked, I could not get my rate up. The new pacemaker is helping that.

I believe both the CPAP machine and pacemaker have saved my life and definitely made the quality of my life so much better. I felt the benefits of the pacemaker immediately. I am truly grateful to be living in this day and age!

2 Comments

Welcome

by Grateful Heart - 2014-08-24 10:08:55


Great attitude!

That is so important for recovery with these devices. Glad you are feeling so well.

Grateful Heart

three weeks post op

by cabbie - 2014-08-25 02:08:56

Congratulations and best of luck on your continued recovery. I am also a newbie, three weeks post implant of a CRT-D.

Like you I am truly grateful for the advances in technology (as well as medical therapy) that help improve the quality of my life and prolong it as well. I am also excited at the prospect of regenerative medicine for the management of heart problems in the next decade or so.

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