3 Weeks since implant

• by miker
• 2016-03-20 11:03:05
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I had a heart attack 8 years ago (49), took about 6 months to start feeling right but heart rate/blood pressure always remained low, like high 40's low 50's and 100/70. Year after year Cardiologist never said much other than things looked great. Ran 30 min every other day, ate great and was pretty active. Had a near-syncope while eating breakfast a month ago and called doc. Put on Holter and after 2 weeks recorded another VT, it stopped spontaneously in about a second and I felt momentarily light headed. Echo, stress test, catheterization, EP test and ICD within 36 hours. Dual lead, Boston Scientific D142 and 120 mg Sotalol twice a day. Sotalol was dropping blood pressure to 92/65 and made me feel horrible so that's been dropped to 80mg twice a day and feel a lot better after 2 days. Heart rate set to 70 but still get "skipped" beats that I didn't expect. Don't understand how that works but happening since implant and I'm still here. Have a checkup on April 1st and have read in other posts to give things 6 weeks to settle down. Practiced some putting and chipping today and can't wait for that 8 week mark, league starts right afterwards.