Lower limit

Have read a few posts in the past where people have commented on having their lower limit dropped.

I'm interested in what symptoms people were experiencing before the alterations. Whilst I feel so much better I still feel out of sync and not quite right when I'm relaxing watching telly, reading etc and especially when in bed either trying to drop off or when I keep wakeing up.

Have a monitor on for this weekend, then go back on the 27th to see if anything usfull showed up and wether any Pacer adjustments can be made.

Good luck to Tracy on her run which if I remember correctly is some time this month

Cheers Jane

2 Comments

A possible explanation

by Terry - 2017-02-04 17:49:16

Drs. know (hopefully have told you) that ventricular pacing is to be avoided, even if there is a compromise to the atro/ventricular timing. That is because 10% to 13% of patients whom are paced more than 20% of the time experience heart failure, within a couple years, as the ventricles remodel due to the aberrant pattern of activation. The solution - pace the heart at the root of the cardiac conduction system called the "His bundle" for a natural, physiological ventricular activation. see <His-pacing.org> for more. Oh, and Google "cardiac conduction system."

All the best to you and yours,

Terry

Lower Limit

by TomL56 - 2017-02-05 20:16:43

I don't have an answer but I know just how you feel. Been a month now with my PM and I still wake up every night and I feel like my heart is beating too fast. I guess I'm getting used to it as I manage to get back to sleep fairly quickly now.

I'm at a minimum 60 bpm, is anyone set lower than that?

 

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