Weird feeling while sleeping.

• by KrelvinAZ
• 2017-08-23 04:17:27
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Just woke up from a really weird feeling on my left side.  As I woke up, I felt a very cool (cold) feeling move from the left side of my chest to the left side.  Or at least I think I did.

I did not feel an actual shock but then I was sleeping when whatever it was happened.

I checked my HR which was normal 67'ish and my BP which was 111/79.  I didn't have any breathing issues, didn't feel uncomfortable, nothing.  Just woke up with that weird cold feeling on the left side and was awake lying down.  Sat up, felt normal.

So couple possibilies.

1) I didn't get shocked and the cool feeling was my imagination that caused me to wake up.  Probable.

2) I did get shocked but didn't feel the shock itself, just the aftermath of it as I woke up. Doubtful.

I am guessing #1 since I had and have no issues since I sat up, no rapid heartrate, BP is normal, no breathing issues, just... normal except being freaked out a bit.

I've never felt a shock actually since I got the ICD, but I've been told it can feel like you got kicked by a horse.

So, anyone ever been shocked while they were sleeping, didn't feel the shock but had a feeling of cold on the left side when they woke up immediatly after the shock??

Some background.

I had a major even in mid-October '17 but they were not really sure what the issue was after I got the hospital other than I was having breathing problems.  They had me intebated for 6+ hours until they thought I was fine and took me out of it.  Tests taking after that showed I had a constant low afib and they decided to install an ICD.  The ICD was implated 3 days before Xmas '17 (interesting gift).

11 days later I had a major event where I started to have breathing issues, blacked out, fell on the floor and was there between concious and not for a little more than an hour.  Never felt a shock but learned the next morning I had been shocked twice, once at 9:30pm and anoher at 10:40pm

I eventually was able to get up and was basically okay after then didn't think I needed to go to the hospital.  I reported the incident in the morning and they said the monitor showed I had been shocked twice that night.  they had me come in and check out the ICD and it showed I had really been zapped twice.

Months later, I had a series of of 4 additonal events of afib in a 3 week periods.  These would start out with rapid heartrate, some breathing issues that would last 30+ mins before I needed real help. Was admited to the hosital after the 2nd was there for 7 days, then the week I was released had onother, and the next night while still in the hospital, another. Its been 40 days since the last one.  Note at no time did I actually get shocked during any of the 4 events, I was told it was afib and not the type of rythim that would be checked with a shock.  IE the ICD is working fine, just not seeing what is necessary to deliver a shock.

I was already on Sotolol during the first 3 but was moved to Amiodarone the early morning of the last event when I was in ICU.  I've had that reduced in 1/2 over the weeks and have had no additional events since.