2 week old pacemaker - heart beating fast

I've been doing well with my new pacemaker but tonight my heart feels like it's beating fast. Daughter checked my pulse and it feels normal but I don't feel right. Feels like it's speed up and slowing down. Dual chamber, pacemaker dependent. Anyone have any thoughts? Scared. Just saw the doctor today and he said I look good.

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by Tracey_E - 2016-04-21 01:04:27

When in doubt, call your doctor! Better to call for a false alarm than tough it out when something is wrong.

If you fill out your profile, it makes it easier to answer your questions. ;) Do you know why you have the pacer and how slow you were before? It could just be that normal feels fast now, that happened to me. My rate went from 40 all my life to 30 to 20 then suddenly it was a normal 60-70 and it felt crazy fast sometimes. After a while, it felt normal again. It could be something like caffeine or getting dehydrated, if you were active when it happened it could be your pacer settings need tweaked, it could be something else is going on and now that you're paced it's more obvious. Only your doctor can tell you for sure.

this happened to me

by holtd3 - 2016-04-23 01:04:12

This happened to me. I felt weird and my heart felt like it wasn't the normal beat. everyone around me kept telling me that my pulse seemed to be ok.I finally bit the bullet and went to the emergency room. Ian glad I did. I was right, I was in a flutter and they had to put me to sleep andshock it out of me. I always say follow you gut if your body is telling you something is not right then something is not right.

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by Skippy123 - 2016-04-27 02:04:26

Whats your normal pulse when not being paced. What are u set at now? My normal pulse is 60 to 65 and during my bypass they turned me up to 80. I was at that rate for 6 weeks unknowingly. Had trouble sleeping, breathing and feeling calm. Went to cardiologist and tge medtronics rep told me i was being paced. I reminded him that i was set at 40 upon implantation. He reset the parameters and i feel great now that my heart is doing wut it wants rather than what its told to do

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