Exercise..... I cant walk across the room.........

I read these exercise posting with a bit of envy. I had my pacemaker defribrilator implanted over a year ago, and I cant walk across a room without feeling a lack of oxygen to my brain, and an auto response of gasping for air. I use to be like the energizer bunny before my implant but the A-fib I experienced almost killed me. The ablation fixed the A-fib, and the implant landed me on the couch.

Upon reading other postings I have come to realize: My Dr. set my rate at 61 BPM, and didnt turn on the acccelerator. Despite any physical activity especially sex, my heart rate never goes above 61 BPM. Can anyone comment on their experience of a rate set too low  vs. an adjusted rate and the difference in how they felt or responded to exercise after the adjustment?

I cannot simply make anappointment to see my Rythm specialist as I now live in the Philippines and Mt. Sanai Hospital is 9,000 miles away. I am hoping to learn from others before I take the trip back to Miami to demand the re-set of my pacemaker to something above comatose.

 

If I dont get back into the gym I will become seriously obese from this sedintary life I now live on the couch.

 

2 Comments

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by Gotrhythm - 2018-06-02 15:20:53

Before all this heart rhythm issue started I had always had a resting heart rate of exactly 72. Having read posts here, at my insistence, my rate was changed from 65 to 70. The difference was immediate and seemed miraculous. I felt like myself for the first time since I got the pacemaker. Everything was smoother and easier, like going from manual steering to power steering.

Other people even noticed the change in me.

Response rate has always been on but about a year ago, it was made more sensitive. That too has helped. Of course, reaching for a tissue can send my heart rate to 87, but I'll take that if it makes stairs easier.

Hope you can get your setiing straightened out. Just a thought...do you really have to go all the way to Miami to get your pacemaker settings changed? If the Phillipines are out, how about Japan, or I understand Thailand has excellant medical facilities. Just wondering. You know best of course.

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by The real Patch - 2018-06-02 19:33:08

If you live in or near Makati or one of the other metropolitan areas, they have the equipment to change your device settings.

See a local doctor, I know they deal with this all the time. And we havs a lot of members in the Phills

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