heart pounding in jaw

Hello! I am new to this group and to having a pacemaker. I had my pacemaker installed 4 days ago. I have a third degree heat block and it happen several times a day for 7 second or more. I felt fine after my procedure and even went back to work the second day after. Yesterday and today I'm in some severe pain. If I am sitting still I am fine but if I move around or I can feel my heart beat (I should say pound) in my neck, jaw and teeth. It continue to pound until my heart rate goes back down. It hurts so bad I feel like my teeth are going to explode. Had anyone else experienced this? Could this be pacemaker syndrome? Thank you for any information you can give

2 Comments

Bring it on

by Gotrhythm - 2014-11-14 01:11:44

Sunshine is right. Call the doctors.

I don't know if you have pacemaker syndrome or not, but I had it, and the symptoms were pounding heartbeat and bad pain, sometimes traveling to my jaw.

Regardless, you know that sitting makes the pain go away and moving around brings it on. Don't do what I did. When they put you in the room, don't sit still. As soon as there is someone in the room with you, do everything you know that will to bring it on.

Pain is something doctors can't see, and if you just talk about pain when you are not having it, they don't discount it exactly, but they don't perceive it to be as seriously debilitating as it is to you. All too often they just interrogate the PM and tell you it's working fine. And dismiss you.

If they see you when the pain hits, they will take the problem much more seriously.

Thank you!

by steeneyre - 2014-11-22 07:11:26

Thank you for your comments. Sunshine in sorry about your daughter but you are absolutely right just to have had them in our lives is a true blessing.

I went to the doctor the day of my post, they adjusted the settings on my PM but it didn't elevate my pain. For the next week I suffered through pain, which at times made it impossible to do my daily living, I had to stay in bed. Yesterday the pain was so severe I went to the er. They gave me some pain meds but my chest xray and EKG were fine they were going to let me go home but thankfully they checked with my cardiologist first. He had them interrogate my PM before they discharged me and sure enough there was a problem. A lead punctured through my heart and I had fluid on the heart which was constricting it. I underwent surgery last night to reposition the lead, the ended up repositioning both of them, and I am waiting on an echo this morning to see the status of the fluid.

I feel so much better already!!

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