should the pacemaker feel glued to the bone under

I got a pacemaker a week ago, & due to my blood thinner medication had some bleeding under the pacemaker & it feels that is not healing well + I am in so much pain. I am going to see my doctor on the14th. Meanwhile I was wondering, once healed, the pacemaker should be sturdy attached to the bone underneath the pacemaker, or it should move with the skin to provide flexibility to move my shoulder around without rubbing my shoulder bone to the pacemaker? At this moment it feels like my pacemaker is glued to the bone underneath.

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Hmmm Questions

by Theknotguy - 2014-11-06 04:11:11

You will want to look over postings on this site about pain and healing. Angrysparrow has a good litany of what to do for pain and tenderness. Hopefully she will chime in soon.

I'm surprised at the bleeding. Usually the doctor who does the insertion gets it into a "pocket" that is under the skin but doesn't affect the muscles underneath. Is he sure nothing was nicked and you don't have any damage to anything else? Any sign of fever?

Soreness can be due to swelling. Cold compresses and tylenol helps with that. I didn't want anything directly on my PM scar for quite a while but cold packs helped.

How much water are you drinking? Notice I didn't say fluids - just water. I was drinking three liters of water per day after I got my PM. Sounds like a lot but it helped flush out anesthesia medications and a lot of other stuff. Not to mention the water helped with my mental adjustment. You wouldn't think so, but it does.

Are you just sitting? Or are you getting up and moving? I know it hurts but keeping on the move helps more than just sitting. Not strenuous exercise, but just to keep moving. Doing something else keeps your mind off the surgery site and helps reduce pain.

You didn't give any information on your bio so it's hard to give suggestions. There can be a lot of reasons for pain. I had a lot because of the trauma I went through before getting the PM. So most of my PM pain was due to swelling. As the swelling went down my pain gradually receded.

One other question. Buyer's remorse? Did you go through the surgery, wake up, and say to yourself, "I don't want this?" Sounds peculiar but we've had people on this forum asking how they can get the PM removed after it was implanted. Not a good idea. But sometimes waking up with a foreign object in your body causes all kinds of mental stress. If you're mentally saying, "I don't want this!", it will cause you to have a lot more pain.

So, cold compresses, water, tylenol, mild exercise, rest, and time.

For a lot of us life is better with the PM. Hopefully it will be the same for you.

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