Lead complications

I had my PM put in on Monday. While in recovery I started having some intense spams until my whole body bucked upwards and I could not breath. I had all these nurses looking confused and lost and my husband was having a fit. Come to find out one of my leads fell and was touching a nerve attached to my diaphragm, so back to surgery I went. The next morning when the PM rep came to test my PM he noticed something was not right, so I went down to xray, the lead fell again so back into surgery. It seems to have held this time, but now I am paranoid to move my arm at all. Has anyone else had this problem? Also sometimes I feel a slight twinge behind my breast, is this from the leads activating?

Tinkergirl

3 Comments

Thanks

by Tinkergirl - 2014-10-09 08:10:47

Thank you for your fast response. I m not in the hospital they sent me home the evening after my 3rd surgery. I am not sure if my cardiologist is a electrophysiologist or not, but he did both my angiogram and PM insertion. He stated that the walls of my heart are thin and the screw did not stay in place. He said on the third time he was going to try it in a different place. I am assuming it worked this time.

As far as OKC goes the heart hospital is awesome and that is where he did my angiogram, I had my PM surgery at Midwest Regional hospital, definitely not the same as the heart hospital.

I do not go back to the cardio until the 23rd to take the staples out.

Again thanks!!!

CharlyB

by Tinkergirl - 2014-10-10 10:10:28

I hope everything goes better for you this time. I am very new to this whole experience and I have noticed the positive effects of my PM along with the bumps.

I think it is weird every now and then I can feel what I would say the PM kicking in, but just every now and then.

I will keep all of us in my prayers!!!!!!

Same boat

by CharlyB - 2014-10-10 12:10:52

I too am on my third lead revision, which now is turning into an extraction as the lead kept moving to pace my diaphragm. I have dialated cardiomyopathy and the docs here at Emory felt that when my heart was large and went down a lil caused the lead that was revised twice already to move. I have a CRT-D in so this upcoming Tuesday I will be bk again. If it happens again after this one they are opting for Epicardial placement. Here's to speedy recovery for us...

Also I did have PTSD also about moving my arm, but hung in there and hey it's sometimes just the make of our heart...

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