What happen to me please help me..

Hello family. ,i have pacemaker since 07, and suffer from time to time from palpitations,  and i also suffer from anxiety but i have under control. I use to take xanas , but that was long time ago..my issue is this..i went to the swimming pools, my son was having such a great time , i try to fit in..i rode this long and fast waterslide,  it was fast, when i landed on water i landed so fast and i had a little hard time swimming out, when i got out i started feeling bad, like very dizzy,  and i had to laid down on a pool chair , my heart rhythm was fast, i felt like i was going to have a heart attack,  no chest pain, nothing like that only this bad feeling like very panic and fast heart, this happen in another country the ambulance was call, it took me a good 30 minutes to get up from chair cause if i got up i started to feel bad again..ambulance told me my blood pressure was a little high but nothing major, i went to hotel and took Xanax,  for 2 days straight and it help me alot. Since then i been feeling like my old self, can anyone here tell me what happen to me please, i use to go on theme parks and this is the first time this has happen to me. I currently have 6 more months left on my pacemaker battery. 

3 Comments

Hard to say

by Good Dog - 2016-07-16 09:13:21

I would like to be helpful, but it is very difficult to say what may have occurred. It could have been a simple anxiety attack. I have had a similar experience on many occasions if I do anything that requires exertion within an hour or two after I have eaten. If I try to mow the lawn after eating dinner there are times when I get so weak and dizzy that I almost pass-out. At times it is so bad I need to stop and lie down. No doctor has ever been able to explain it except to say that the blood is directed to my stomach after eating, which reduces blood flow to other important areas like my lungs and brain. I don't know, but they simply tell me not to do anything for a couple of hours after eating, which works! It is kinda like "it hurts if I do this"...........so (they say), don't do that!

 

Don't know if that was a factor for you, but just thought I'd throw it out there. If you are fine now and it is not a reocurring problem it may be best to just put it behind you.

anxiety?

by Tracey_E - 2016-07-16 09:21:08

They can check your pacer to see if anything odd was going on with your heart at the time it happened but it sounds like maybe it was just anxiety? As Good Dog said, if you feel good now and it hasn't happened again, maybe put it behind you and move on. 

Exciting times

by Selwyn - 2016-07-16 12:31:35

If you suddenly ( out of the tube slide, into the pool) try to exert yourself there is a delay with the rate response of your pacemaker being activated ( there are different settlings for the rate of response for this in your pacemaker). It may be that you needed to have a faster setting to get your heart rate up quickly, otherwise you can get short of breath- not a pleasant sensation. 

Excitement ( and anxiety) releases adrenalin (ephedrine) from the adrenal glands - this has a direct effect on your heart to increase the heart rate. This may worsen your shortness of breath, by this time your heart rate is uncomfortable, your breathing has increased and the whole thing may ratchet itself up to worsen the situation. 

It is worth checking as to the  quickness of onset of your exercise rate response on your pacemaker settings if you are going to take sudden exercise. 

I ran up 4 flights of stairs the other day and had to sit down at the top, absolutely gasping for breath, and that is with a fast rate response setting!

Selwyn

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