pacemaker ddd

what can i do do releive or help with my ddd. it's getting top where i can't even get dress in the mornings or lift my legs. i've been told at the age of 15 that i had this and each year it is getting worse. the pain is so unbearable at times it hurts to sit or stand,and i cry myself to sleep. i have never taken or been given any kinds of medications for this, just some physical therapy, but that doesn't seem to be working.

I just wonder if all of the above is indicative of a heart that is working too hard to properly function? Should I just go for the pacemaker, which I imagine will be a DDD pacer?? Thanks for any advice, I'm pretty nervous and anxious about this pacemaker, but I just want my life back - to walk in the park with my little girl and not have to worry about my HR tolerating the exercise. Thank you!

recently (about a month ago) i injured myself lifting something i shouldnt have, and since that day my DDD has been even worse, including loss of bowel function, difficulty urinating, loss of muscle mass in my right leg/thigh/butt and loss of feeling on the right side of my right leg/foot/butt i have a surgery date for december, which is over a month away, i read somewhere i shouldve had surgery immediately after the loss of feeling in my foot. what should i do?

also at same level I have facet arthropathy present with ventral osteophyte formation. DDD with narrowing and desiccation of C4-C5. There is a focal Central C4-C5 disc bulge. This disc bulge abuts the cervical cord. Mild facet arthropathy is precent. DDD present at the C5-C6 disc level. Annular disc bulging with osteophytic bar formation and ancinate process hypertrophy. Facet hypertrophy is also present. There is a mild bilateral neural foraminal narrowing.

DDDD HOW PUMPED ARE YOU! And how far along are you!?

Both are dangerous. Both are good, short term, for non-DDD related singular disk issues. Both are bad, for DDD, or anything involving narrowing of the spinal canal. Also, manipulations can increase rate of degeneration in the vertebrae. What's important here, is the rate of degeneration. Most likely, your NS doesn't know that now? They will watch you, and over time, get a decent judge of the rate. Start taking steps to reduce the rate of degeneration.

I am looking to discuss DDD with other LIKE members and in search of alternative medicine to treat my pain for Severe DDD (degenerative disc disease) of neck and back.

I have DDD in my neck and was involved with a motor vehicle accident. Since then l now have a chronic burning ache pain in my lower left arm radiating down into my hand along with tingling. Wondering if the accident has made my DDD worse and brought on these sypmtoms. Have had two years of physio no relief.

s I have DDD at C3-C4 ,C6-C7 mild. C5-C6 moderate with a narrowing of the foraminal canal sever to moderate. Mild AP spinal canal stenosis at C5-C6. no evidence of edema , myelomalacia or demyelinating plaque.( DDD at L5 S1) I have multiple smal foci of supratentorial white matter, suspicious of demyelination. 3 periventri cular lession at least 1 juxtacordial lession and a infratentorial lesion. one of them involve the posterior body of the corpus callosum extending to the callospe-septal.

My doctor diagnosed me with DDD (neck).However another diagnosed me with lupus. I have awful pain in my neck and the bottom right of my back. Any suggestions?

Hi..sorry u r going thru all the red tape....I also have DDD and cervical spinal stinosis...I do not how they r connected,but it does appear there is a connection.

Well Chiari could possibly be the cause but with your extensive surgical history it would be hard to say. Have you had an MRI? I know what DDD is but not sure what the symptoms are.

good you ask me.. my pacemaker is set to 80beats and I'm 100% depend on my pacemaker.. i have a Medtronic this my 2nd. pacemaker... my first Medtronic pacemaker i had it for 18 yrs. until the doctor turn it down than it didn't work good.. had to get a new one.. in Dec. it will be 2yrs. i had my pacemaker check last week and i find out the doctor that put my pacemaker in didn't set my pacemaker for life depend.. Good news is now my pacemaker is set for it not to be ever turn off..

The pacemaker itself should not be a deterent from having an ablation. I've had a pacemaker for 6 years (because of an ablation actually), and then had another ablation about a year ago. Unfortunately, the ablations don't work for me, but I have IST, not SVT so hopefully they're more effective for that.

My pacemaker battery had been dead for over a year and a half, and I just now was told that the pacemaker will have to be removed because it can damage the heart if it doesn't have a battery. Is this true? Incidentally, my pacemaker had not been activated for several years, as it was set for the minimum and didn't ever have to kick in.

I have had numerous surgeries including the Fontan in 1987 with a revision of the Fontan in 2006, where at that time I also had a Medtronic Enrhythym Pacemaker install. 3 weeks ago I had a Pacemaker replacement due to the fact my battery on my Pacemaker was running low. The new Pacemaker installed is a Medtronic Adapta. Since the new pacemaker my Heart beat has been all over the place. My 1st Enrhythym was paced at 80 bpm, and it pretty much stayed like that for 5.

i had 3 open heart surgery and on my 2nd. pacemaker.. my first pacemaker last me for 18yrs. and just got my 2nd. pacemaker Dec.2006.. my pacemaker was implanted in my upper chest on the right side.. only thing i hate the surgery doctor told me he would use the same cut as the other pacemaker but when i woke up he cut me in another spot.. well i can say.. ask your doctor his he using the same cut as the first pacemaker was in..

Do you have a pacemaker? The best is to check with your doctor or pacemaker technician. I don't know what can it cause the heart functioning abnormality if you have the inverted T waves? Anyone knows? It also depends if you're a pacemaker dependent or not. I'm not a pacemaker depend. I go well with the equipment which marks "Pacemaker user caution". If I found my heart beats abnormally, then I stop using it and try again after the heart settle.

Hi, I'm sorry about your mom. Its my understanding that they don't "stop" the pacemaker, Nature takes it course regardless of the pacemaker. I went through this with my mom.

My normal pulse rate with out pacemaker is 54 ppm. My dual lead pacemaker is set at 70 ppm, some people with pacemakers have the pacemaker rate set below their normal heart Resting rate Ex. normal rate 50 ppm Pacemaker set at 45 ppm. What determines the optimun pulse rate for the pacemaker? My Doctor is willing to set it at any rrrrrrrrrrate I choose. I am 86 years old in good physical shape,play tennis do nautilis and swim several times a week.

I don't believe a pacemaker is used to control AFib. Perhaps your father has other heart problems. The most common use for a pacemaker is to keep the heart from beating too slow, or stopping. Some times a PM is used when the heart electrical system has to be totally shut down, in which case there would be no AFib or other arrhythmia, but this is not done to my knowledge, to control AFib.

Pacemaker batteries will not run out unexpectedly. When a battery is running low, the elective replacement indicator (ERI) is activated. Physicians can detect this activation during a routine office visit. In addition, the battery status and the general functioning of the pacemaker can be tested over the telephone. This is generally done every one to two months.

You may be able to feel the pacemaker under your skin as the pacemaker is typically placed just below the skin. This area will be sore after surgery, but as time passes the pacemaker should become less noticeable.

my mother had a pacemaker implant ans was told that if she is ok in the next three weeks it will be removed. is this possible? To remove the pacemaker?? so why was it necessary to do this in the first place?

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