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Acupuncture

Guess what? I tried acupuncture the other day (as in yesterday morning) and well...I HAVEN'T FELT THIS GOOD IN YEARS!!!!! I stopped taking my meds due to a general lack of them working a few days ago and yet since the acupuncture treatment, I have not had an irregular beat, my blood pressure has gone down and my heart has started reacting to exercise the way it is suppose to again! I go in again for another treatment on Thursday and it should take awhile for long term results, but I am amazed...

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ANTIBIOTICS

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone here takes antibiotics for the heart. I recently had an ear infections and I had to take antibiotics for the infection. In some weird way, my heart function a lot better with fewer extra heart beats.
My question to anyone here, is antibiotics good for the heart. I once saw on the news a Doctor stated that people having heart disease should take antibiotics, but, I never pay any attention to it until after this last ear infection when I was given antibi...

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Atrial tachycardia

A few weeks ago I posted saying that I felt really bad, with skipped beats and a 'heavy' heartbeat etc. I went to A&E and the ECG there showed nothing, and when the cardiology technician interrogated the PM he didn't find anything either, so I tried to ignore it after that. Well, it continued to happen and yesterday it happened so badly that my heart raced and raced and I thought it would burst out of my chest so I knew something was wrong. Today I saw the technician and when he interrogated the...

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Heart Transplant

Larry goes in October 6 to the Mayo Clinic to be evaluated for a heart transplant. They are going to do an X-ray and ekg and who know what other tests and then he gets to talk to the Doctors. Can they do the x-ray when you have an ICD? I think I saw some place that they could.

I thought my nerves were shot when he was getting the pacemaker, but that was nothing compared to this.

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increased instances of pvc's

I have had my dual chamber pacemaker for over 3 years now and about 18 months ago I started experiencing pvc's. They are increasing in frequency now and I experience them sometimes as much as 10 in one minute, but usually just 3-5 in a minute.
Does anyone have any advice about how I can change this?
I stopped drinking coffee completely and I rarely drink alcohol.

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multiple Ablations/modifications

How many have had more ablations/modifacation after they had there pacemakers place in?

I am just curious, I had 2 sinus node modifications, 2 ablation near my SA node, then my pacemaker installed and 1month later an AV node Ablation, now docs wanna go back in and quote be more aggressive quote sence I already have a pacemaker.. My EF is like 40-45, I have mild distolic function, moderate global hypokinses, Mild Regurgitation in all of my valves, and being my heart is still at rest 11...

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Flomax and Bradycardia

I currently have a Medtronic Dual Respose pacemaker implanted for Bradycardia. Slow heartbeat that dropped at one time to 18 beats per minute which led to a pacemaker being implanted.
I am 70 years old and my Urologist wants to put me on Flomax to control my frequent trips to the bathroom. Flomax has a history and warnings that it can drop my blood pressure and heart beat and lead to fainting for some patients.
Does anyone have a similar condition and take Flomax? What dosage? Any prob...

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Hello

Hello everybody!!!!
Can anybody guide me regarding implantable pacemakers.. actually i m doing one project where i need lot of info on the same. First of all what is role of doctor u r consulting at first; do he actully perform surgery or he only consults other doc. and how these pacemaker companies are brought into action. Do patients who will undergo surgery contact these companies or doctors (cardiologists) contacts these companies for relevant pacemakers??? Please guide me. Thanks

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Lead trouble!

Hi all,
I know some of you have gone through this so I was seeking well not exactly sure right now. I was suppose to have my pm check this past fri in Chicago but had to delay it due to a asthma attack the worse I have had so far having asthma. I am on a lot more drugs to try and keep my lungs functioning to the best of my ability.
I saw my old family Dr back at home in Iowa and he told me that coming back was great but was hard on my lungs b/c of the floods that they had last...

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Missing a Beat!

Thursday night my PCP prescribed Lopressor for my BP. I took a half of one that night and took half Friday morning as directed. After getting to work on Friday, I started getting weak, and told my boss I was going to the ER. I came to find out that the Lopressor (Metoprolol Tartate) was causing my heart to drop a beat. They said it looked like it was not letting the signal get to the bottom for some reason. Needless to say, I ended up staying the night and came home today. I have a new HP...

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Thank you Valerie!

Valerie,

Thanks a lot and that would help a lot. We'll do that. God Bless you!

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Idiodiagnostic

"Idiopathic" is an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause.

I've decided to coin a new term "Idiodiagnostic" to mean a diagnosis guessed at spontaneously or from obscure or unknown information.

How about it?

frank

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blackouts

hi
I am on my second pacemaker, have had this one for five years with little problem. Recently have been admitted into hospital twice with chest pain and fainting. pacemaker was checked and was working fine, My arteries are normal and at the time nothing was found to explain the problem
My pacemaker was set to take egm's and the following month it showed that i had had a ventricle fast rythm that lasted for up to12 beats.
Is this something to worry about?

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Feeling completely drained & weak

Had pacemaker implanted about 2 months ago because of low heart rate, which lowered blood pressure & caused blackouts. Immediately after implant, doc started me on Midodrine. On 1 month check-up, BP was slightly elevated. Do then lowered dosage of Midodrine & started me on Amlodipine & Metoprolol. Now I feel drained, weak, nausaus, break out in cold sweats....basically just plain crummy. Any suggestion. Going to doc on Tuesday & hopefully he will change or reduce some of the meds.

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laryngitis

i lost my voice a week and a half ago and i was on zithromax and prednisone for seven days and now i have discomfort in my chest relieved by zantac. it is like gas i guess is best to describe it. lost 20 pounds by following a reduction diet but may have eaten to many tomatoes as we grew them and in ontario canada the tomatoes in summer are fantastic. anyway wonder if i am doing enough to get rid of it. trying to be silent and that is hard. hehe have a cold air humidifier in bedroom. do you think...

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Coumadin

Just a quick question. Is it unusual to have a pacemaker implant and not be put on coumadin? I had my pacemaker and was not put on this drug but I was already on plavix because of an earlier stent placement. Other people that I know with pm's thinks it odd that I am not on coumadin. I am alittle concerned now..comments please.

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Dronedaron (Multaq)

Hi there!

Since "Dronedarone" (Multaq) has been subject to some postings here lately, I wanted to post an article I got yesterday. It's from theheart.org, and I think one has to be logged in to read it. I'm posting it here so that you don't have to register for reading it. The baseline of the article is: Dronedarone is not as effective as Amiodarone, but it's much safer. I don't want to open another discussion on this, just thought the article might be of interest for some of you.

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Questions on New Med

Hi Everyone,

My mom has recently started taking Diltiszen generic for Cardizem for blood pressure and palpitations but although her doctor insists this is a very good medicine for blood pressure her blood pressure is still a bit hit...i wanted to know if anyone else is on this med for blood pressure and does it work for you? I'm taking her on thurs to get a second opinion.

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anyone taking MULTAQ

hi, I have afrial fib, atrial futter, RVR, I throw pvc, I am usually in atrial fib nearly all the time. I already had an ablation in May of this year. Until January I had no heart troubles, then I had hyopthyroidism, rapid atrial fib, after my ablation I got uclerated colitis. I am on synthroid, cardizem, MULTAQ, lowpressor, potassium, with little to no help, only cardizem IV or lowpressor IV pull me out of afib. I just started Multaq last Tuseday, I got a headache that won't quit, dizzy, a...

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Meds Vs. Vitamins

How many of you use vitamins? What do you take and did any react with your meds?

So far I only found Vit.K to not go with Coumadin. The rest seem OK. I always used a dozen or so vitamin pills but stopped as my meds. increased. I'm now ingesting vitamins again. Your comments?

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