Pacemaker installed yesterday.

Hello everyone.

I just came across your site this evening. I had a dual-lead pacemaker installed yesterday. I have been experiencing tachycardia for the past 8 months. I'm always tachycardic when awake and my pulse varies between 115 and 225.

After the cardiologist decided that I needed a pacemaker I only had 2 days until the surgery. As I'm looking up pacemaker information tonight I'm not finding anything that says a pacemaker helps with tachycardia.

I wore a Holter monitor for 14 days and it showed that once I went 3 seconds without a heartbeat.

Does anyone have any experience with a pacemaker used to treat tachycardia? The only thing that I've noticed since getting it yesterday is that every time I stand up now I get extremely lightheaded and dizzy.

2 Comments

Dont panic

by jessieG - 2015-08-03 09:08:43

Hello,

I was in the same position as you as my heart rate would go to 200 at rest, so after much research and waiting my cardiologist decided to install a pacemaker which scared me quite a bit as I was then only 23. After the pacemaker insertion I waited ten days to let me body get used to the pacemaker then they ablated my SA node in my heart completely so I am now fully reliant on the pacemaker and i have never felt healthier . my pacemaker is set at 70 at rest and can go up to 110 when exercising.

I hope my post has helped you, and relax you will feel absolutely great soon.

Kind Regards

Jess

Not very confident in this

by MarvinTheMartian - 2015-08-06 06:08:38

Thanks for your reply, Jess.

I visit the pacemaker clinic tomorrow. This morning I slept in and forgot to take my beta blocker. I realized this around noon when my pulse was up to 130, I was very short of breath and was having bad chest pains. It doesn't look like the pacemaker is doing a thing about the tachycardia. It seems that it's just the new beta blocker.

I'm really hoping that this surgery wasn't all for nothing. So far not a thing has changed.

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