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cary-58

did you grrt my message? kessie

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cary-58

please go to chat quick jessie

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stop harassing me todd

look todd i want a stop to this and now, you can't go around saying things like that to people, you think you can say anything because you are an attorney. not so. so cut it now or i will involve blake. jessie

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hay river

who is the young man who lives in hay river? my memory is bad for names. do you have a need for mitts? childrens mitts hats etc up there please let us know.also used blankets?

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new pm

I'm getting my second pacemaker in a week. My doctors told me the battery is so low that they can't even run more tests on it because it would take too much voltage. For the past few weeks I've felt tired and lightheaded all of the time. I'm only 21 and that isn't normally the case. Could this have anything to do with the PM? How did y'all feel right before you needed a new one? Any thoughts would be great. Thanks!

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New Year's Baby

I could give you the whole long verson of the last 2 1/2 years but to sum it up 14 months ago I lost 106 lbs, took me 1 yr to do it, on my own no surgeris! Shortly after I began having proplems with low heart rate 40's but no symptoms.Went through all the heart tests told me all was well my body just needed to adjust. About 6 months ago started feeling very fatigued, cold just coudnt get myself moving, now they said depression. 2 months ago started fainting for no reason would just drop over. 2...

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Chest Pain Update

Thanks to everyone who welcomed me to the site and offered their advice!
I contacted my EP this morning, and she is pretty certain that my pacer is causing the chest pain. She said that it is probably either the pacing that I am feeling, or some sort of maintenance that my particular device preforms.
I often feel it pacing in the atrial lead, but never in the ventrical lead...she informed me that I am probably extememly sensitive to the pacing in that area. I am not so sure though, a...

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HAPPY NEW YEAR

I would like to wish everyone in this fabulous group a very happy new year. I really enjoy this site, and as I have been a pm user since 1987, I am still learning quite a lot. Sounds stupid really being in the medical profession but we learn something new everyday on this site.
Someone wrote maybe last week saying that they have been treated for epilepsy nearly all there life and have only just found out that it is not epilepsy but heart related, could this person please please contact me...

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aldeer

This is Theresa from Iowa.

Have you received your seat belt cushion yet? I ordered one too and got an email that said they would contact me but never did, and I have never gotten anything from them.

Thanks!

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Post Implant Exercise

4 days to PM day! It suddenly occurred to me that I did not ask my EP exactly what his prescription for post PM activities will be. I think I remember him saying that after 2 months I could do 'pretty much anything'. I am not a body builder by any means but I hope the usual weight machines in the gym are not going to be off limits after, say, 2 months.

I have one question: I have read all the advice in here about taking it easy post PM to avoid fracturing leads. Does this refer just...

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Chest Pain

I am a 23 year old female and I have had my pacemaker for 6 weeks. My pacer was implanted because my heart-rate was dropping below 35 bmp, which was causing me to faint several times a week.
Since the surgery, I have had no other symptoms or complications...until now. Last night as I was getting into bed, I had this severe chest pain in my left side, just under my breast. It felt as though someone had tied my heart in a knot and was pulling it tighter, I felt the sensation 3 times, and the...

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Recovering after Lead Extraction

I got home Thursday after having my surgery on Wednesday. They wanted to remove all the leads in the vessel where the fractured lead was, only they weren't successful. The two hours scheduled procedure took over 5 hours. The fractured lead was easy to remove, but the other two had tissue grown around them and were attached to the thinnest portion of my aorta. They gently tried, but were not successful with extracting them. Then they put in a third lead because my ejection fraction (the % of...

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///////Happy Birthday Susan////////

Since our Birthday wish girl Valerie is stil not up to speed yet... (get well young lady)
I guess it is for me to put the birthday wishes on this page for Susan (queen_beez) my lovely daughter......
Happy Bithday Susan .Have a truly beautiful day......stay well
and may all you wish for lay ahead.....Love "dad".........Peter N,

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never could i have guessed!

Wow the big day is almost here!! To tell you the truth I tryed to stay away from this site until after I got home. Kinda to forget about the pm I think but it hasnt helped @ all! hehe I think it has actually made it harder, so here I am! lol I think it finally hit me last nite that its actually going to happen in 14 hours! I didnt think I would be this afraid! I mean you guys have all given me the help I have needed why cant I just stop thinking about it and do it! I realize I will be much bette...

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Muscle twitches - eye and heart

I still get muscle spasms/twitches (soft, and non-painful) in my heart, ever since PM implantation. They are intermittent, usually one at a time, and occasionally 6 or 7 in a row, about the rate of heart rate, but do not coincide when I immediately check my pulse rate on my wrist. 20 to 40 total a day average. Also have left eyelid twitching that I thought was not related, but naive as I am, could that be related to some of the electrical impulses from the PM and its leads?

~Jean

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any experience with staples

Hi Friends,

I was wondering if any of you had any experience with your incision being closed by staples.

I had my 3rd pm implant on 12/27. The same incision was used.
I have 8 staples. These staples are due to be removed this Tuesday.

This morning I noticed some very red areas around the staples.
My incision looks good minus the irritated red areas around the staples.

I 'm thinking that these areas are irritated due to clothing touching the...

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Its been a while but....

I got some questions. I have read a little of all the recent ones but not all of them.
I have been having some problems lately if I lay the wrong way I loose my breathe and get sharp pain. I have had this for a long time and just assume it comes from having the pm in my body. Well I got kicked by my friends kid the other day right in my chest. I feel like it is swollen and it hurts... though I do believe that I hate pain so something little can be painful. I also know that I should have...

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Up for a chat

Going to the chat room. Come on in. Bob

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Chronic Afib

I'm in my mid fifties, and have had chronic afib for the last 7 years. I've now had 6 ablations for afib/flutter, and am not much better off - I'm still in afib/atypical flutter 6 days out of 7. I'm just so sick of it, it has completely changed my life. But the "carrot on a stick" of a cure (ablation, maze) has kept me from getting an AV node ablation and a pacemaker. I also worry that after going through all that, I may have complications or may still feel the afib.

I'm wondering wha...

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Cardiologpist...

I had my Cardiologist appointment yesterday, and I stressed myself out over nothing! I found myself wondering a few days prior to the appointment if I was going to have to have a heart catherization (for those who have had one, I am sure you will agree that they hurt). At anyrate, my bp was good, my heart ultrasound was good, and my ecg went great. He had no concerns until....until I started talking to him about the pains in that chest area that I get when I do anything too physically stressful...

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