Pain accross the chest (occasional)

My wife received a pacemaker 4 months ago. She now has an occasional pain across her chest. sort of like an electrical charge but goes from one side to the other. The physician said he thought she was still healing. Any thoughts?

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healing

by Tracey_E - 2024-09-06 14:01:04

We get a lot of odd feelings as things heal and the nerves knit back together. Has she had a pacemaker interrogation? If something was up with the pacer, it would likely show up there. If her doctor isn't worried, then I wouldn't be either, tho it can't hurt to remain diligent and insist on being seen again if it gets worse or doesn't go away. 

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by Lavender - 2024-09-06 15:28:54

It's still healing in there. I didn't feel "normal " for seven months. I did have a vibrating type feeling when I was really still and quiet upon just waking up. 

Weird feelings

by Theknotguy - 2024-09-07 23:46:26

Depending upon body healing, activity level, your body type, and all sorts of other things you can have weird feelings for a long time after the initial pacemaker implant. All normal. I used to get shooting pains in the implant area and it was all due to nerves healing. Other people talk about feeling "ant bites" in the pacemaker area.  

My weird feelings lasted up to a year and a half after my first implant. On my second implant I had weird feelings for about eight weeks. All normal but, since it was my second implant, I didn't really pay that much attention to them. Occasionally I'd get a shooting pain that would last for a few seconds. They would just happen with no warning. That happened up to two years after my initial implant. Just normal healing. Weird, I know but that's what happened.

The first few times you have the weird feelings you pause, take stock of the situation, then move on. Hard to do I know because you really don't know if it's a problem or not. But if you feel good otherwise, you eventually learn to just move on. 

Won't forget the first time the ventricle side of the pacemaker kicked in. I was walking the dogs. Wondered if something bad was going to happen. The dogs were looking at me wondering what was going on. Took a deep breath and just went on with my life.

Now I just label it as "things they didn't tell you about having a pacemaker". My EP and I used to get into discussions and I'd eventually tell him, "Hey! I've got a pacemaker any you don't. So don't tell me what I should or shouldn't be feeling."

Hope your recovery goes well otherwise.
 

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