Tired

I got my PM almost two months ago. No complications. I was back to my cardio after a month and checkup went well. Now coming up on two months and still get bouts of tiredness. I have another check up this Friday. I am 72 and I don't expect to have the energy of a 30 year old but I thought by now I would have more energy.

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It depends upon a lot of things

by Theknotguy - 2015-09-24 06:09:09

You don't say anything in your bio. So it's hard to guess about other things going on other than you're 72 and have a PM.

Your tiredness can depend upon a lot of things. Did you get new medications along with your new PM? What kind of heart problems did you have? What are the on-going heart problems. Anything else happen?

I had a lot of trauma before getting my PM. Had to get enough energy to walk. That took me three months. I used to go out, walk 800 feet, then come back in and take an hour nap. Gradually worked it up to a mile.

It was five months before I even started thinking of "normal". Then it was at seven months before I started trying to do "normal" things. On a busy day I'll still come home and drop off. I feel good but I'll still drop off and that's at the two year mark. It has nothing to do with the PM but a lot to do with the underlying heart problems plus the medications I'm taking.

So your tiredness may be due to other things than just your pacemaker.

I do hope everything else is going well for you.

Check up OK But Still Tired

by donsabi - 2015-09-28 08:09:53

I went in for my check up and all is well. I asked about the tiredness and was told it takes different people different times to recover. I have had my PM 2 months now.
I have been on Sotalol which can cause tiredness but I have been on since the first of this year and the tiredness was nothing this bad. I was put on Sotalol for afib dx'ed in January. I seldom have afib since I got the PM. No new meds with the PM.
The only thing I have been doing differently is trying to get back to walking. However I am only walking a quarter to a third of a mile.
One thing I find troubling is I do not recover with a nap. Actually I feel worse after a nap.

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