Shortness of breath

I just joined, so I'm not sure how this club works. My primary concern is that I just had my first checkup after having this new pacemaker implanted in February. I know the nurse changed a few settings and now I seem to be getting short of breath really easy. I also have a tight feeling in my chest when inhaling. Has anyone else ever experienced this? I'll be calling my cardiologist tomorrow....

3 Comments

Talk with your EP

by Theknotguy - 2015-07-13 10:07:02

Obviously something was changed. So I'd place a call with the EP and/or his nurse and find out what happened. Then request things be changed back. If they won't change it back to the previous settings, I'd want to know why.

call them

by Tracey_E - 2015-07-13 10:07:02

If they changed the settings and now you have symptoms, they need to change it again. It's not uncommon to take a few tries to get it right. We're all different and no two of us have the same settings, so sometimes it's a bit of trial and error to find what works best.

Seems to be fixed

by DebbieKJ67 - 2015-07-14 07:07:23

They did return it to the previous settings yesterday. It does seem to be back to normal. She had put it into a battery saving mode that she said helps if you are using overnight monitoring which I do not. The Boston Sci. employee thought this shouldn't have effected me either, but obviously it did! I still have a bit of tightness in my chest, but that could be from the Canadian wildfire smoke we had blow down our way last week.

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