Waking up Similar distressed feeling...

5 months post PM surgery for heart pausing, which caused me to wake up from sleeping very nauseus, lightheaded, vomiting etc. After over a yr of docs saying I had vertigo (inner ear condition) they found out after I passed out I was having 8 to 19 second pauses!
I have recently experienced 7 different "attacks" that seem very familiar to b4 pm, lightheaded, panic feeling, nausea....only after falling asleep briefly or waking up very disoriented. They check pm, only going off 2%, never letting my heart go below 60bmp. Cardiologists do not have any anwers for me at all. Any one else experience this? The feeling is very Dejavu...it's horrible and scarry. Mabye my brain is trying to stop heart but pm won't let it, and brain still going through the same feeling but not as drastic as before when my heart paused??? Any ideas? Panic? PTSD? Thank you :)

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by busby - 2009-07-13 02:07:42

Hi Rozybud,
You will probably get replies from others as well. I had similar things happen before my PM with up to 1min pauses and fainting. Thought the PM totally cured this until 2 yrs after the PM and had a similar experience to you , about half a dozen times in one day, this time with no fainting. I have seen the experience described as a Dejavu feeling- not very pleasant! I now have the rate drop response turned on so that if my heart rate drops suddenly the PM will kick in and beat at 75bpm for 2 minutes. I think that not only are our heart rates dropping, but our blood vessels are expanding and our blood pressure drops rapidly. The rate drop response has not completely helped , but things are much better.
Haven't had a bad episode now for almost 8 months.

Thank you littlerob

by rozybud - 2009-07-14 12:07:00

Thanks for your response. I also found out after having so many nights my heart paused thus causing lack of oxegyn causing my brain to continue having small brain seizures. Frontal lobe...
Only happens when I nod off to sleep...wierd although during the day I feel fine!
Thanks again

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