8 weeks post op

Hi fellow friends 😊 so I’m 8 weeks post op and just wondering does anyone else still have pain? It’s not the incision but almost where the leads go into the vein, the PM also hurts if I lay the wrong way in bed and other times it just aches. Getting very frustrated and the doctor says it’s healed perfectly and I just have to forget that it’s there. I sometimes wish I didn’t have this and just left things alone.

 Thanks any responses would be much appreciated 

Celeste67

4 Comments

Pain

by AgentX86 - 2018-09-09 20:15:19

Yes, after seven months, I still have some pain when something comes in contact with the PM or the scar tissue around it. I sar pretty badly, though.  I still have problems with the scar tissue from my CABG, almost four years ago but I wouldn't take that back either. I rather like living. 

I think you have some serious issues to work through and perhaps they're not all due to the pacemaker.  Perhaps you should seek some help coping.

Thanks

by Celeste67 - 2018-09-09 20:27:53

Wow that was helpful AgentX86, coping skills? I was perfectly fine pre PM and have had severe RA for the last 17 years so pain is nothing new to me. I think my coping skills are just fine just was wondering if anyone has that same type of pain and if so how long did it last 

Thanks

by AgentX86 - 2018-09-09 22:08:11

Oh crap!  I'm sorry Celeste. I had you crossed with "Looped".  I was having a lot of trouble with the site knocking me out when I tried to post and was working on answering both and got your backtrounds crossed.  I appologize for implying that you were loopy.

Healing at own pace.

by Theknotguy - 2018-09-09 23:09:05

Your body heals at it's own pace.  Some heal faster, some heal slower.  It just depends.  

While we live in the mickey-d world where we can walk into a store, order something, wait a few minutes, then walk out with the finished product, the body doesn't hold to those rules.  You can't count so many days, make a mark on the calendar and expect things to be healed at that time.  Very frustrating but that's the way it is.  

There was a video out on YouTube that showed a pacemaker implant.  If you'd watch that video before you got a pacemaker, you'd never get one.  Fortunately I watched the video a couple of years after my implant.  No wonder I was so sore.  And that doesn't count the busted ribs from the CPR.  

In addition to the surface cuts to the skin for the implant there are sore areas under the skin from where they made the implant pocket and moved things around.

I think it was nine months before the underlying soreness went away.  Because of the busted ribs and the re-separated shoulder from CPR it was over two years before I could even think of sleeping on my left side.  At four years out I can sleep on either side without problems but it took that long for the soreness to go away.  

I know it's frustrating at eight weeks but give your body some time to heal.  You'll get there.  
 

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