Swelling around pacemaker

Pain

by Cabg Patch - 2017-02-13 10:53:28

It's possible lying on it or some other activity has caused the issue, however, and I cannot stress this enough... this sounds like it could be an infection manifesting itself. and yes infections have cropped up years after an implant. And infection is nothing to mess with, get it checked immediately and keep an eye on it no matter what you learn.

My infection I was hospitalized 2 weeks, had all leads and device explanted. Wore a vacuum pump over the wound 24/7. Wore a life vest 24/7. Wore an infusion pump 24/7 and went to the hospital 6 times a week for 4.5 months. A lot of doctors got new cars and I got a rusty CRT-D that smoked

Swelling around pacemaker

by seasider18 - 2017-02-13 11:44:21

Thank you, I phoned the pacemaker clinic and they have given me an appointment for tomorrow to check it out.

In 2015 November my GP said it looked different than his fathers one and thought that it had moved. At a later cardiology appintment they said that it was well seated with no evidence of skin tension, erythema or swelling.

Use Great Caution

by dumb - 2017-02-13 13:34:55

Cabg Patch explained the danger.  Your EP is the most likely to recognize infection before it becomes acute.

If infection is diagnosed insist on a culture so you will receive the appropriate antibiotics.

I had a animal bite become infected dispite my best efforts to prevent such an outcome. As pointed out above, it was a major production to fight the infection.  The area around the infection still lookes like it has been through a meat tenderizer, I am almost three months into fighting this infection. I will need plastic surgery at some time in the distant future.

Just a hint.  I went into Urgent Care shortly after the attack, ER 24 hrs later, private doctor 3 days after the ER.  My injury was not healing. MY doctor insisted on a general antibiotic. The Cindamyacin did not clear the infection. Back to ER, infectious disease helped me,  I am healing just really slow.

So get going find out if you are growing something then make sure you receive appropriate antibiotics.

Write it down!

by LondonAndy - 2017-02-14 19:43:22

I realise that you said the appointment with the Cardiologist didn't go as planned, so sounds like you were thrown by something, but I have realised that my memory is quite bad at times (and I am 'only' 51 years old!) I have ended up writing down what I want to ask whatever medical person I am seeing because I have kept forgetting to ask something I wanted to raise.

And also I find that when I go for the annual pacemaker checkup I intend to summarise what I understand that they have told me during the tests, as it wasn't clear if they had changed any settings after I made some comments.