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Back from trip.

Just a message to let you know my wife and I just got back from our cruise. It was a great vacation. The first real vacation I have taken in 30+ years. We started in Las Vegas where I bowled in a tournament. Had a great week there and won $3800.00 in prize money. On top of that won $2,000 playing Keno. That made the cruise that followed a very easy 5 days as there was no worry about spending too much. So we did anything we wanted to do. This was our first cruise and I highly recommend it. Unless...

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It's been 5 day since my surgery..

Have been pretty nervous about the whole thing. I know I am going to feel better, I have that hope. The day after my surgery didn't go as well as I thought it would. An hour after I was returned to my room my incision started bleeding really bad and or course they put this pressure patch on my chest to hold pressure for 2 hours. They called it a hematoma, like a blood clot and told me they may have to go back in to clean it out. My doctor decided not to go back in. Chance of infection could be...

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Bumpy Roads and Fluttering Heart

I have had my PM for 13 months and lately whenever I'm on a bumpy road (I live in PA so there is a lot of them) it feels as though my heart is beating very fast and that it is going to explode out of my chest. If I stop the car it goes away as fast as it started. I never wear the shoulder strap from my seat belt because it hurts my pacer site so much so I don't think it's from being physically manipulated.

I have called my doctor but trying to get a call back when you're dying is...

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Wii games

I had my PM put in last December. Last evening I was playing the Wii game with my family and started feeling light headed. When I stopped and took my pulse, it was low (54). My PM always keeps it right at 60. I read the Wii instruction book and it does say it can interfere with pacemakers. Has anyone else had this happen? It is only certain games, or all Wii games?
Thanks anyone for your comments!

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thanks Cathryn :->

Hey girl
Thanks heaps for your message. Yep, looks like the Australian Army takes ALL kinds!! Hope all is well in your world. Actually, where IS your world??? That's the weird thing about this medium. we are anywhere and yet at the exact same place. Sometimes you just gotta love the www.....sometimes!
Take care, talk soon
Gonzi ( or Sasha to my civi mates) !!!

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i set off alarm @ walmart/kmart

I have been setting off the alarm going into and exiting some stores...usually our walmart and kmart! They all know me by now, and it is not my parcels. It does it going in to the store. It's a great way to get some attention!!!!!
Anyone else have this issue???

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First reduction in meds...

Well, I had my first reduction in my Sotalol last Wednesday. Doc lowered me 20%, from 200 mg/day to 160 and I can already notice a difference.

I actually have blood pressure again, not 80-90 over 38-50, but back closer to normal of 100-110 over 60.

There are a lot of things to start getting used to again, for example when I work out, I Actually heat up now, and get flushed like I should. It's difficult to determine what is normal anymore, so I watch my pulse monitor, but ev...

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update on a soldier

hey all
Well for anyone out there that read my post almost exactly a year ago(Hey Hannah,Hey Cathryn), here is an update. It took me a lot of arguing, and a massive amount of support from both my doctors, my superiors and my partner, but we did it. I am now the first member with a pace maker who has been given the official ok to not only stay in the Army, but to chose the direction of my career with almost no restrictions. I still train hard, tho, at almost 39 now, and with the pacer doing...

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my wonderful cardiologist Bruce Wilson

this is one message I never thought i would be posting. It is funny how we end up being so very close to the doctors involved in our diagnosis, surgery, recovery and ongoing care. But alot of us do. Dr Bruce Wilson was a dear and loved friend of mine, who also just happened to be one of those doctors described above. We laughed, cried and prayed together. And tho I know, he had a hundred patients, he would always have that time for me. On the evening of the 23rd April 2008, Bruce felt a niggly...

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Pacing cells??????????

Hey, I know you are tired of me, but I was looking up the artificial heart on this one site, when I just thought I wouls see what's under Cardiology. Well, doctors are coming up with cells to "inject" into a person's heart to regulate the beat. Call me crazy, but I LIKE my pm, and definatly do NOT want these new cells!

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Heart muscle twitching

I'm going to ask if anyone is experiencing or has experienced a "twitching" of the heart after PM implantation? Not anything that is visible through the skin, but it seems like it should! It started the day of implantation. At that time, it was an average of 200 to 500 twitches a day . . . very, very light twitching, irregular, and slower than my heart rate, and sometimes going a few hours of just being normal, i.e., not aware of any movement at the heart. My PM was set at 50 at the time, and...

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cycling after pacer

Well it has been one year since I had my pacer installed Medtronic ADDR01011D
I cycle up to 300 miles per week and have entered several races including a 200km just 18 days after the pacer was installed. I found out that the Doctor that did the install did just an "out of the box" install and had to go to a different doctor for 2 adjustments. That took care of the problems I had (minor)
I have noticed that my Polar heart monitor will show readings of up to 230bpm but have no feeling...

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Thanks for changing post time!

Thank you to whoever is responsible for changing the time the posts are listed! The current 7 days or so is soooooooo much better than the last 10 posts! On a busy day the post you may have been really watching can "disappear" and sometimes searching for them isn't so easy...

I like this format much better! Thanks.

Swedeheart

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Blue tooth cell phone ear pieces OK?

Do blue tooth wireless cell phone ear pieces interfer with pacers?

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traveling

I go to Disney Orlando every year...due to my bad back I always chose my rides carefully.......I received my pacemaker/defibular 1 and a half years ago. So this will be my first trip since surgery.....I have my card to show at the airport...very nervous about that I had problems at my local courthouse with showing my card and receiving an attitude...I am telling myself airports deal with this all the time.so I shouildn't have problems. Also in my booklet it said if you plan on sex tell your doct...

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problem

i have a question i have had a pacemaker/defibrillator since june 1 2005 the specialist said it was supposed to last 4 to 5 years but it is at 2.55 and they change it at 2.4 so im kind of worried about what is going to happen he said that they want me to start goin every 3 months now and he said that im gonna have a new one here shortly so if anybody has any suggestions please let me know thank you

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Can't fly

Noticed the ad on this page "How soon can I fly again". I was told not so long ago by my cardiologist that he would prefer that I don't fly again in future - have to take holidays in UK which wouldn't be bad if my OH was keen on driving!
I have pulmonary hypertension and believe this is why he has asked me not to fly.

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South Orange County?

Hello Friends,

I've used the Member List to search for friends in my local area without results. Anyone out there who lives in So Orange County, CA? I am in Rancho Santa Margarita. Thank you.

Sharon

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gaining weight

I have a problem with my weight. Since getting the pacemaker 4 years ago I have put on 40 pounds. I am 59 years old and work as a L&D nurse. I also have hypothyroidism. I watch what I eat and try to work out at least 3 days a week. I drink mostly water and do not eat fatty foods. I am on Diovan, Zebata and Synthroid. It is as if my body refuses to let go of the extra weight. I hate the way clothes look on me. And forget looking in the mirror. All the doctors tell me I should lose weigh...

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The Pulse Spring 2008

I read the issue and was so thrilled to see something that I can purchase for when I am in a car and the seat belt hurts my chest where my pacemaker is. Also the comfortHer bra strap is also something I really need. My pacemaker is big and parts kinda bulge out of my chest.........They say I need this size because I have a three lead one and this one makes both sides of my heart work in unison. I also have obstructive cardiomyopathy and my heart does not fill as a normal heart will......Have to...

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You know you're wired when...

You name your daughter “Synchronicity”.

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My eight year old son had a pacemaker since he was 6 months old. He does very well, plays soccer, baseball, and rides his bike. I am so glad he is not ashamed of his pacemaker. He will proudly show his "battery" to anyone.