missed heart beat

I am Dr.M .Radhakrishnan from S.India.I rec ently had apacemaker inserted and was doing great .My pacemaker was the latest one from Boston scientific. I  had  been having  extasystole  extensive diagnosis( angiogram halter ) my acrdiologist suggested taht I go in for apacemaker .I was doing great for aweeka nd the review too went off fine .After about one and a half  weeks , i have started experiencing amissed beat every now and then.Is this common? I am atlking to my cardiologist soon.

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Missed beats

by LondonAndy - 2017-11-29 04:04:23

You don't say why you had the pacemaker inserted, or how much you are paced. I am 100% paced, following surgical complications, and in the early days my pacemaker skipped pacing me for a second or two in order to test if my heart had recovered sufficiently to initiate its own beats.  So your missed beats could be a deliberate test.

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by Tracey_E - 2017-11-29 09:21:23

If your pacer is set to a minimum of 60, it won't let you go a second without a beat. Sometimes there are smaller beats between the stronger beats that we don't feel, but are still beats so it feels like a missed beat but is not. It's common to need the settings fine tuned once the leads have had time to settle and the heart has had time to get used to pacing. No two of us are alike, so they start with a good guess then adjust as needed. 

PVC

by rolson - 2017-11-29 09:42:12

Sometimes pvc feels like missed beats but they are just premature beats, some pacemakers can be set to help with those,  my Medtronic had that setting and it helps a lot. 

PVC

by rolson - 2017-11-29 09:42:20

Sometimes pvc feels like missed beats but they are just premature beats, some pacemakers can be set to help with those,  my Medtronic had that setting and it helps a lot. 

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