Most Recent Messages in Checkups & Settings

Increased threashold

What does this mean? Went for check up 5 days ago, and not feeling quite right. Having some discomfort when PM is pacing. Not quite sure about this new sensation.

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Valve leakage

Hi

Have had a rough couple of weeks since last post. I saw the cardiologist and he has now heard a murmur. He asked me if this had ever been mentioned and only once 30 years ago when I was having my daughter in hospital was this mentioned. Since then I have had three echograms and not once did anyone say about murmur.

I then had an echogram two days after seeing the cardiologist and this showed a slight leak in heart valve. Told not to worry but needless to say I am...

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What does DDDR mode mean?

Hello All

Can anyone tell me what DDDR mode means on my Biventricular pacemaker.

Thank you for your support.

Graham

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Need to Replace PM ??

Hi All
Insignia AVT DR - Model 1292 Guidant Pacemaker was implanted in Oct’2005 for the reason that Neurocardiogenic Syncope. Even after implanting the device i have the same problems which were there prior to the implantation. The settings have been changed numerous times but the problems remains increasing episodes of giddiness, light headedness, short of breath and even i had a fainting (syncope) episodes too. So far around 6000 SBR (Sudden Brady Response) were recorded and to my...

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information about the follow ups

Good day.
Im from another country and I wondered how normaly in US they make the checkups; every year? or six months?

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New to group ? settings

The first part of my message to the group has disappeared into thin air! Basically have a variety of arrhythmias, have first degree heart block, left anterior fascicular block and in order to treat the bursts of VT need flecainide and metoprolol but needed the pacer as back-up because of the blocks, also minor sinus node dysfunction I guess the main thrust of my posting was in the half which has now been posted.
Thanks
Lancashire Lass

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New to group ? settings

what he suspected was an aggressive Search AV hysteresis programmed then they would programme my back-up VVIR or DDIR pacing with hysteresis to minimise ventricular pacing. So, they fiddled around a bit and luckily I asked a few more questions and found that it was programmed just DDI not DDIR as my cardiologist thought! Now I am programmed to kick in when heart rate drops to 50bpm and probably around 40 and upwards when sleeping, and they have turned on the rate response. I now have to see how...

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Self Checking

Can someone describe to me what a PM self checking itself would feel like?

Today out of the blue I had a cluster of abnormal, hard and un-rythmic beats. It lasted a few seconds. I then got dizzy and sweaty. Then it happened again.

Its' been an hour and so far HRH is in the 80's (I'm still nervous), hasn't happened again...but was suggested to me it may have been my PM self checking itself.

Called the dr...no call back since. Think I'm having just some PVC's for t...

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Not sure what is going on

Hi

For the past two weeks I have been visiting my pacemaker nurse who after me explaining that I have been having feelings of my heart in my stomach changed some settings.

First week she put my pacer up to 50 beats being the lower level I was originally 45. This has helped with headaches but I have still the feeling of my heart in upper stomach. Also put my pacemaker into DDD. Tried to exercise and did not like the effect of DDD and next week she put me back to DDI. L...

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Pacemaker Usage Percentages?

Does anyone out there ever get told at their appointments what percentage of the time their pacemaker is pacing? Mine seems to be going up in usage. They told me this week that I'm being atrial paced 75% of the time, and ventrical paced 47% of the time. I'm wondering if this is a lot or if this is fairly normal.

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Post pm

Hi
I got a pm 2 weeks ago for second degree heart block (that happened only when I was exercising). Yesterday and today I went to the gym to ride the bike and my hr still dropped exactly like it did before the pm. Any ideas if this is just a setting problem? Would I know if I dislodged a lead? (I don't depend on the pm unless I am exercising)
Also, they said it would be burried and the nurse said it was too far under to be able to feel it. I can definitely feel it though with my fi...

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V tach

Hello everyone! I haven't been on here in ages. I was actually forgetting i even had one. Then last week I had a V Tach episode and past out. My daughters age 11 and 7 where home with me and my 11 year old called 911. It was pretty scary. I had a cardiac arrest in 2007 and it took 29 minutes to revive me. So needless to say my girls where very scared. I keep trying to assure them I am fine but I truely I am shaken a bit. What bothers me is that my ICD didn't kick in tell after I past out. They...

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an update

Went in for my every 3 month check. I expressed great concern to my doctor that I feel like something is going on outside of my pacemaker as I am so activity intolerant that I cant even explain it. We did an echo of which I have not gotten the results back yet. We debated and debated about putting the rate response back on. I tired it when I first got my pacer a year ago but found that it was pacing me inappropriately and so we turned it off. We decided to give it a try again as when I was d...

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New Experience

Having a double chamber pacemaker fitted tommorrow 15th September. Age 56yrs.

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Pacemaker adjustments

I am not really sure what I am asking but here goes. I have been having trouble ever since I got my pacemaker 6 weeks ago with diaphragm stimulation. I have had it adjusted 5 times. The last time (Friday) the technician adjusted the atrial lead to 0.5 to keep it from stimulating my diaphragm and turned off the auto checking. My EP wants to replace and reposition both leads this week. Each time they adjust it I feel worse. Should I be able to feel the difference as much as I have? I have t...

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pacemaker check up

Just wondering if anyone gets an aching feeling after getting pacemaker checkup? Had PM fitted in June due to heartblock, leads came out 8 days after and had to be repositioned so just had my 3rd pacemaker check and get aching feeling in the heart area after checkup.

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Good Cardiologist/EP in SW Florida?

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone else lives in the SW Florida area (Fort Myers/Bonita/Naples) and knows of a good cardiologist/EP? I've had VERY bad luck finding a good doctor since moving here 7 years ago. My first PM implant in 1995 was a great experience with a wonderful doctor in Albuquerque, NM. He later moved to TX and I moved to FL. My experience with cardiologists since then has been pretty bad. I need to see one very soon as I think my current PM (implanted in 2004) may be nea...

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MERLIN

Hi folks, as many of my friends here know, I have a dual pacemaker. It is an "Accent" and is monitored by a remote system.

I received a schedule from my cardiologist office stating that I was to do check-ins on certain days over the next year. Ok, I thought... there are no directions as to what I was supposed to do. I phone the dr. office and they said that I simply sit in front of the monitor and push the button and wait. So today... which is Labor Day, that is exactly what I did. I...

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Improved understanding....

Had my PM fitted 24th June 10 for 2nd degree HB (insufficient beats relayed from atrium to ventricle). Post-op, I felt much better, have recovered fully & been very active with my hobby (classic cars), lifting engines, fitted a tow bar, etc. I noticed I was still a little SOB walking up steep hills and mentioned this at my 2 month check-up. The physiologist said my heart had raised my rate to 130 bpm on several occasions, but when I pursued the issue further, arranged for me to wear a 24 hour HR...

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office check up

the last pm check i had in the office 6 months ago hurt i have had a pm since 96 and never had it hurt before it was when she turned my heart rate up the only thing i can think of is i had a stent put in a few months earlier my doctor said that shouldn't do anything i have another office in 2 weeks and i am a nervous wreck has any one else had this happen thanks pat

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