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Yoga

Does anyone here practice yoga? Can anyone think of any concerns doing it? I've started yoga and I wonder if all the stretching could cause a lead to come out. I've had my pm for 9 months now and all is fine. Is it ever possible for a lead to pull out, even after it's been in a long time?
Thanks,
Rusty

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Positive Attitude!!!!!!!!!!!!

I geuss that knowledge and experience make all the differance. Getting my PM at the age of 36 was a shock and scary for everyone involved. I have been very fortunate that that was the "fix" and not a problem to speak of since. This week it was thought that my elderly uncle had a heart attack and everyone was worried. It was discovered that he din't have a MI and only a drastic slow down in his BPM. To make a long story short, my Mom (his sister) went to see him in the hospital this am and inform...

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tiredness

Hi PM Pals

Does anyone out there suffer from extreme tiredness. I just can't seem to shake it. It is worse when I sit down to the computer. I know they say blue is a relaxing colour but the energy seems to just drain out of me. My blood test was ok with just a rise in iron level. My ecg showed no further changes. My doc rang me last night. My only conclusion is that it is the heat (it is summer here) or I am just getting plain old and worn out. My brain is so active but the bod...

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reposition pm

What is the reason to reposition your pacemaker? Is there a reason other than comfort?

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Projects

Have you ever felt like you're being left out? Well, I know that felling very well. One day in school, I was assinged a video project and one of the girls that I worked with told me to pick out the music. So whiile I was doing that, the girl pushed me out the way and she picked out the music. I dealt with this very carefullly because I didn't want to hurt her feelings. So, I backed out and let the other two girls to the project by themselves.

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My auntie it recovery

Hello,
I'm happy to report that my auntie went through a quadruple bypass surgery yesterday and the latest report is telling that she's coming alone just fine. I'm excited and still a bit nervous about the whole thing. I'm sure she's going to be okay. I'm hoping she'll be able to come over and have a nice tilapia and penne pasta dinner, prepared of course by muwha. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Special thanks to Ela-girl, Smitty, Jessie and Carol for your testimonies. God...

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chat

well i gues noone is interested. good night all jessie

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Do it yourself settings

I just posted a picture of my new dial it up pacermaker. Don't we wish!

for fun,

frank

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chat

anyone want to chat?

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What is DMMS?

I don't claim to know more than anyone else. I too wondered what DMMS was. I looked high, and I looked low, and I found............

Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMMS) is part of the Department of Informatics at University of Oslo . Formed in 2000 to investigate all aspects of distributed multimedia systems, the membership of the group includes academics, visiting academics and industrialists, research associates and postgraduate students.

Multimedia is a discipline tha...

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diet

Hey I just wanted to see if anyone out there has ever tried the grape fruit diet?!?! It says it a heart healthy diet and the have heart patients who need to lose weight do it. I wanna start and I wanted to see if anyone knows anything about it.

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Okay I'll ask.....


Just what is DMMS and how many people actually would go there and why?

I realize that I am dating myself, but hey this is the year that I will turn 55! So if I don't ask now I might run out of steam and I would never know. Now you all know that it would not be a good thing! How could I sleep at night if I had to wonder.....

Now someone please take mercy on me and bring me up to speed before I resort to phoning my granddaughter I can almost hear her chuckles now...

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propanalol

hi just wondered if anyone had any experience with the drug propanalol (beta blocker)? i only take 10mgs twice a day to control fast heart beat/palpitations of which no real cause has been determined(pm in place for heart block. )if i dont take it the symptoms are unbearable but taking it has side effects of dry mouth, cough and horseness and tight chest so no real fun with or without it also seem to keep getting painful burst blood vessles in fingers whist taking it. any comments would be grate...

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Isn't it amazing?

Isn't it amazing how many people are on the member list? Ok, besides Shorts1800 and Flamingos22, I am wondering how many people go to DMMS.

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Post surgery condition

My husband had a pacemaker/defibrillator put in 3/22/07. He has not been able to get back his energy and says he just doesn't feel good. They said he had developed an infection and needed 4 weeks of cefritaxone injected after the surgery.

Can others who have had the same surgery tell us their condition post surgery. Have you recovered your energy and health since the susrgery.

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OptiVol Fluid Monitoring

Howdy,

I found out during my last visit to my EP that my ICD has a feature, described below, that monitors the build-up of fluids in the thoracic cavity that is apparently caused by overindulging on liquids & high salt intake from food.

My doctor showed me a chart and asked what I was doing around New Year's and the week before in general. I told him I was celebrating the holidays like lots of people do here in the US and he replied that everyone "cheats" on their diets at...

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nervous about tomorrow

Hi all. I'm going tomorrow to get my first bi-ventricular pacemaker. I've had open heart surgery before, so I guess this should be a piece of cake (tell that to my nerves!). I really love this website and have gotten a lot of good information from your posts (thanks for asking the sex question - I was dreading asking my dr about that in front of my parents). :-)

I'm having the device put in under the muscle. For those of you who have done that - how noticeable is it going to be?...

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POOR PACING SERVICES IN UK

The UK is poorly served for pacing services compared to Western Europe. The service is also patchy what we call here a postcode lottery. To catch up on our near western europe partners the UK needs to implant another 28000 pacemakers per year. This is a shocking indictment of our health services and our government. People who need pacemakers are not getting them when they need them and this of course can and does prove fatal. Pacing specialists are not getting the support they need. There also...

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pain when lifting

hi i had my pacemaker 6 months ago and everything is going fine but i still find i cant lift anything heavy with out getting a pain down the middle of my chest is this normal ?

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Questions from pacer-to-be

If there is anyone who got a PM while asymptomatic could they let me know how they got on?

I am meeting my cardiologist next week to finally plan getting a PM. I have complete congenital heart block and I am 34. Thankfully I have no symptoms. Seeing as I am asymptomatic I dont expect the pm to make me feel better, but will it slow me down? and for how long? I can only imagine that its a bizarre sensaton...can you feel it ticking away. (my heart rate is just below 40bpm so I imagi...

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