Pacemaker Settings please help

• by JLTREBEL23
• 2016-08-23 01:00:47
• Checkups & Settings
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Hello everyone, 2 years ago I receieved a replacement pacemaker. I had a dual chamber Medtronics that lasted me for about 12 years. What puzzled me is that when they replaced it they gave me a St Judes Pacemaker. My doctor told me that Medtronics and St Judes are almost alike.. anyway I just asked them to please kep my settings the same. With my Medtronics I had them set it up beautifully that I was doing anything I wanted to do, I played basketball, went hiking, I mean just about anything and everything. Once they replaced it with the St Jude as soon as I arrived home from the operation I felt "different" not myself, upon the intial couple checkups they said everything was programmed the same and just to give my body time to adjust to the pacemaker. Everything did start getting better but I never regained that energy I had before, I feel more tired, I get more dizzy spells and this is causing a great deal of anxiety. I started notifying my cardiologist about how I felt and he just has done blood work, echo, stress test, holter monitor and they all come back excellent. Now The last couple check ups I asked for a copy of my settings, although I am not a pacemaker tech but I compared my old settings to how I am set up today. The only difference that I can see is the Pulse amplitude and Pulse width are different. My old settings were Pulse amplitude 2V and pulse width .4ms on atrial lead....... 2v and .3ms on my Ventricular lead. My new settings on the St Jude are Atrial pulse amplitude 1.625v and .5ms pulse width... Ventricular is 2.5 pulse amplitude and .5ms pulse width.

Other than that everything else looks the same... Anyone else had any similar issue like mine??? please help.

Thank you everyone.