Vibration Above Pacemaker

I've had my pacemaker for two years because I was having episodes of fainting.  Yesterday shortly after waking, I began to feel  vibrating sensation between my pacemaker and my shoulder.  I believe this is the area where the leads connect from the vein to the pm.  I felt the sensation from two to four times per hour all day long.  I transmitted and was told my pacemaker I was doing fine and everything was good. I persisted on being seen so I went in and had a device check done by the nurse. They said everything is normal and it must be a muscle contracting.  The sensations are still happening today. It does feel like a muscle.  It feels like a cell phone on vibrate.  Anyone else have this issue and if so, what was the resolution?

 

2 Comments

A nerve

by oldearthworm - 2017-02-14 20:29:57

My guess..  A nerve was severed during the implantation and now its trying to reconnect ?  This , like all other lettters, is one for the medical profession , not an old worn out  auto mechanic  ... I've never had any problems with the PM , maybe I am totally insensitive  ...

strange feelings

by Gotrhythm - 2017-02-15 12:17:58

Oddly enough, muscles can jump, quiver and vibrate when they have been tense and are trying to relax. Don't know if it's a muscle or nerve that's the real cause, but it happens to me all the time, and seems to happen more the older I get. 

I expect it would be alarming if I felt it just under the pacemaker. Glad you checked it out. In my experience the feeling goes away in anything from minutes to a few days.

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