heart beating so hard i can feel my beat in chest

hello friends i am male/20 my pm was replaced 3 month before. everything was good unitl two weeks before i had fever 102F for two days. after recovering i start feeling something is going inside my heart i have very bad feelings i feel my heart beat in chest. i visited my cardiologist two times he did ECG and pm interogation and said my pm is fine. now i am worried about any other heart disease what you think guys what is causes of my problem? is this normal will goes with time? it doesn't let me sleep

6 Comments

Threshold change?

by Grateful Heart - 2014-12-05 03:12:19


It sounds like the threshold has changed (the amount of voltage necessary to initiate a beat). That is common after a few months of initial pacing. Your heart is getting used to being paced now and inflammation has gone down so if they lower the voltage on your pm that should correct it. Easy for your Doc to fix. That's assuming of course that your fever is gone and was related to something else.

Your PM may be working "fine" but it needs to be adjusted for you. Just ask the Doc to try it for you.

Grateful Heart

She's right

by Theknotguy - 2014-12-05 08:12:40

Grateful Heart is correct. Have the doc do some adjusting.

As for your other question, yes, some people can feel the PM when it initiates a beat. Before they lowered the voltage on my PM I could tell when it kicked in. Sometimes more sometimes less. And, yes, it would wake me out of a sound sleep.

I used to go on coughing jags because I'd be expecting my normal, out of synch, heartbeat. But the PM would kick in and initiate a beat. It felt really strange to have a regular heartbeat.

Once they lowered the voltage I didn't feel the PM kick in most of the time. There were, and still are, times I can still feel it kick in. Kinda nice to know it's working.

Hope things get better for you.

thanks both of you for response

by ballydhanoa - 2014-12-05 11:12:08

threshold vlotage of artial is 0.5v amd ventricular is 1v
upper chamber pacing 37% lower chamber paced 64% is this parameters are normal ? pls reply i feel problem after fever

PM Paraneters

by Theknotguy - 2014-12-06 10:12:51

As reported by you, parameters are normal. Everyone varies slightly due to how your body has grown.

Problem after fever is due to changes brought on by disease or infection that caused fever. Everything should change once body returns to normal.

While it is normal to be concerned about feelings caused by heart disease and PM, it is best not to dwell upon each miniscule symptom. You just waste time worrying about things that mean nothing.

If you do have a real problem, you will feel sick, or hurt, or have a combination of the two which will tell you to have it checked out. In the year+ since I've had my PM, I've had one afib episode with RVR and one session of high blood pressure. I was very sick both times and both necessitated a run to the hospital. Everything else were just weird feelings that went away.

Pacemakers allow us to get on with our lives and give us a good life.

thanks

by ballydhanoa - 2014-12-07 06:12:33

hu theknoguy i dont have any other symptoms except heart palpitations when i am lying down they bother me so much. i feel that heart beating so hard with every beat in chest. i hope they will go away with time its already two weeks gone with this feeling. i never feeled this from the day i receive my pm after fever i have heart palpitation i hope nothing serious as you say with my heart. thank you

Holter 30 Day Monitor

by Artist - 2014-12-07 12:12:40

In reading your comments about feeling your heart beat in your chest, I can't help but think you may be having episodes of AFIB or other heart rhythm problems. My cardiologist told me that my pacemaker implant would fix the Bradycardia, but would not address my AFIB and other rhythm problems. I was unable to take medications for the AFIB etc. since they acted to lower my already too low BPM so they implanted a pacemaker. I am on two medications now and it has only been 31 days since my PM was installed. I thought the medications had resolved my AFIB until I had two scary incidents in the last four days. But, this is still a vast improvement for me. The use of medications involves a period of experimentation to see what works without a lot of side effects like dizziness. It sounds to me as though you need to wear a Holter monitor for 30 days to find out exactly what is occurring that causes you to feel your heart beat. Prior to my recent treatments I used to have such aggressive heart palpitations that I could be sitting in my recliner and they would rock my body from side to side. So I recommend that more testing be done to find out the more about cause and type of your heart palpitations.

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