Bras after getting a pacemaker

Built to move

by Gotrhythm - 2019-07-27 20:12:35

Your surgeon places the pacemaker just under the skin, in a spot relattive to your collar bone and left arm. Your pacemaker is intended to be able to move around as your skin moves.

My breasts are about average but I've come to the age when a bra gives them quite a boost skyward. Bra on or off, the pacemaker doesn't move at all.

Built to move

by TessaD - 2019-07-27 20:18:22

Thank you for your knowledge

Built To Move

by Chowchowma - 2019-07-28 02:07:57

My Dr. advised me to wear a bra after surgery beacuse my breast might aggravate the device placement. Wearing the bra was torture so I wore it only when absolutely necessary. I hung in there and it's much better after 3 months.

I didn;t fret!

by atiras - 2019-07-30 14:00:04

TLDR; wear a bra if if it's comfortable! It will not disturb the leads, and your surgeon will have placed the pacemaker to accomodate lifting your t*ts. They do it all the time.

OK, I have an "endowment" (44DD on a very slight frame) otherwise described (by my late mother) as a huge crumb shelf.

When the surgeon was planning my surgery, I said 'There's nothing to hide it behind' and he said it would be fine. Afterwards, he said: we had to put it deeper than planned so you're lucky: it isn't visible.

Bras? After the operation (nine months ago now) I have not been able to bear wired bras, but I started wearing unwired bras as soon as I got home (including at night) -- as in within one day . Wired bras are painful including wires to the side as well as underneath but you can buy unwired bras that are equally effective.  OK, things aren't hoisted as far as they used to be, but (a) I like being alive and (b) anyone who cares how close my t*ts are to my chin needs to get a life... without me. (My partner is just glad that I can get up and get his breakfast after 15 years of not being able to -- he hasn't dared comment on the new configuratton of my chest).

My bra strap doesn't rub on the pacemaker. So that's another plus.

My scar is visible but I suspect that's because the PM had to be replaced within a few weeks of the initial insertion. So I hae two parallel silver lines-- doesnt' bother me, but others willl differ

Re postioning,  mine varies with time: right now 12 hours after getting up, it's tucked down behind my left breast and I cannot feel it at all. ( I suspect this happens much earlier in the day but I've never cared enough to check. ) When I get up 12 hours later, it might have shifted up or left, and twinge when I turn over in the early hours. The twingeing prompts me to turn over -- or not; it really doesn't matter.