Needed help sleeping the first few weeks

So I'm 3 months post op and I was just remembering that on the first weeks after the surgery I had to put some show on netflix so I could go to sleep. To give a little background, I've never been someone to need a nightlight or sounds to fall asleep, but if I'm sleeping with someone and they wanna watch tv while I sleep I've never had an issue with it, even though I'm a relatively light sleeper. Also for the surgery I was extremely calm, despite everyone around me being on edge over it. Maybe on the inside I was a little nervous but I've always been someone that keeps her emotions to herself, and sometimes I don't even realize what I'm feeling so I might have been more nervous or stressed than I thought. So getting back to my point, for some reason I couldn't sleep the first maybe three weeks without having some tv show in the background. I'd play it just loud enough for it to be audible but not intelligible, and withtin half an hour I'd be asleep. I wanna know if any of you had something like this happen as well, or if you started doing something that you didn't do before as a way to cope or deal with what you were feeling at that point.

4 Comments

No one knows

by Theknotguy - 2019-03-24 12:30:48

No one really knows what may happen or what is going to happen after you've had a pacemaker implant.  You've just had a surgical procedure,  they've messed around with your heart, you've had an emotional crisis, and you've had physical trauma.  Trying to predict what will happen after that is impossible.  Post implant, your heart is beating differently, you may have a better blood flow, and you may be on different medication.  All of that leads up to big changes in you life.  So it isn't surprising you notice things differently and do different things.  

Post implant I started sleeping better. (Yea!)  But then I started having serial dreams.  I'd have one dream one night, then pick up where I left off the second night.  Kinda like those serial TV shows.  Can't say the dreams were bad, but they weren't the greatest either.  I chalked it up to new medications.

The main point is, are you feeling better overall?  If so, I'd just sit back and go with the flow. Things will eventually return to "normal" - whatever that means.  

Hope everything else is going well for you. 
 

mu experience

by Uelrindru - 2019-03-26 07:27:09

After my heart attack and ICD were placed I started having a hard time sleeping in my bed, my couch on our loving room will put me out.

It's getting better for sure but it still impacts my life. Also during my recovery my sleep schedule was thrown off so bad I was sleeping 7-8 hours a day but it was broken up and it took months to get back to sleeping 7-8 hours in one solid block.

Me too

by Grateful Grammy O - 2019-03-26 23:20:40

I’ve had my pacemaker 6 months now, best thing I’ve done in years. I wasn’t nervous at all the day of surgery, as I’d watched the procedure the night before on YouTube. I do, however, have trouble sleeping at night. Bradycardia here, and my body just isn’t used to my pulse running that fast at night. Prior to surgery, my pulse would drop down into the 20s at night. I take melatonin every night, but that’s not the answer.

Waking Up Every Night

by TomL56 - 2019-03-28 04:47:09

I used to be a very sound sleeper. Slept straight through each night. Since getting my PM over two years ago, I wake up every night for about one hour. No matter how tired I am or how late I get to bed, I still wake up. I stay in bed and read. At first I would get up for a while but I found it much harder to get back to sleep if I get up. 

At at this point I think it is just a bad habit.

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