Noticeable heart feelings

I have had my pm since May of this year. I have had several noticible heart feelings that I never had before the pm. I'm curious, realizing we are different with our experiances with the pm, what can we expect to feel that we didn't used to? I have had hr speed bursts that have no reason for happening, that I know of. I could go from the 60s to over 120 for no reason other than a body position change. That was pretty much fixed by an adjustment of turning off the blood pressure sensor but I still have less palpaple episodes. I don't know for sure but I'm guessing I {we} might have sensations when the pm does it's own checks on itself. Any ideas to what we can expect that we didn't before?

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No answers, but some other questions

by Gotrhythm - 2017-08-14 15:46:09

What can we expect to feel that we didn't use to?  Who knows?

Read all the posts for a while--every one, whether you think it applies to you or not. It won't take long at all to realize that all our hearts are as individual as we are.

Some people feel every little thing. Some people feel nothing. Some people feel some things but not others.

The thing is, for most of us, 

*1 our heartbeat hadn't been normal for a while, maybe years, before getting a pacemaker. So...

*2 it isn't reasonable to expect to feel exactly the same as we did. It feels different because it is different.

*3 a pacemaker beat mimics a normal beat but it is not a normal beat. The heart does have to adapt to it.

but

*4 we probably wouldn't know what a normal heartbeat felt like if we had one (see *1 )

So

Trying to guess what the pacemaker is doing based on sensations in the chest is an exercise in futility. But more importantly, it doesn't ask the right question.

Significant chest pain and or shortness of breath are sensations that warrant immediate medical attention. Otherwise...

The right question is, despite the ocasional symptom, do you feel better on the whole than you did? Do you feel good enough to do what you want to do? Are you more able to care for those you love, and because you feel better do you derive more enjoyment from the things that make your life worth living?

Noticeable heart feelings

by explorer1803 - 2017-08-14 22:31:39

I had my pm implanted in February of this year after learning I was in stage three heart block.  I had a three lead pacemaker implanted with three leads.  The next morning the Dr. had to turn off one of the leads as it was causing my diaghram to pound.  I did not feel good for two months experiencing heart feelings I also never had before.  Furthermore, I have a constant low level nausea.  So that said, in April, the Dr. removed the lead that was turned off, removed the three lead pacemaker and implanted a two lead packmaker keeping the other two leads intact.   I still don't feel good with bouts of low energy, nausea, pounding heart beats for no reason at all whether sitting still, walking or otherwise.  I am told by the Dr. that the pounding heart beats are PAC's, (Premature Atrial Contraction)

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