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Avatar m tn Per the Halter Monitor results it was found that my heart was stopping for 4.5 seconds at a time and a decision was made to do a pacemaker placement. They decided it would be best to do the dual pacemaker. I was admitted the day before my surgery as I was very sick. During that time I was put back on the halter monitor to where there were episodes of my heart stopping for 9-12 seconds at a time.
Avatar n tn She is currently on Metoprolol (Lopresser) 50 mg BID (recently changed due to simular symptoms from another simular cardiac med). Prior to the pacemaker placement the only symptom she had was tiredness with a heat rate of 30 (amazingly no SOB or dizziness, but did see her physcian for right shoulder pain); this is when it was discovered that she had a heartrate in the 30's. She was then sent to the hopspital and pacemaker was placed in the next day.
Avatar f tn It was the most horrifying experience I have ever gone through as the lidocaine had absolutely no effect and versed does not work on me so I had full feeling of surgery from the initial incision to the creation of the pocket into my muscle and placement of the pacemaker. My heart rate and blood pressure had been dropping to critical levels. A BP of 60/40 at night and a heart rate in the low to mid thirties was commonplace.
1600503 tn?1305349464 When she had her ICD implanted she had complications and the pacemaker mark of the implant could not be connected. What are the chances of me have the same complication. She ended up being in the hospital for 3 days and then rehab for a week.
Avatar n tn I just had a new generator put in my pacemaker and my hccoughing continues, i had this condition before the generator was replaced and according to the pacemaker manfacture this is a reason for the change. Why am i still having this condition?
Avatar m tn Hi, I am 58 years old and had a pacemaker placement for a slow heartbeat. I go to my Doctors on a regular basis and just had a nuclear stress test and blood work. All were normal. I have been expericing some skipped heartbeat for about six months, and I have pain in the left side of my neck. When this happens, it seems to also make me feel tired. My questions are would my pacemaker pick up these events?
Avatar m tn Hi. I think the most important person to ask is your doctor who put in the pacemaker. Follow their guidance. But I've been told that the first three months after placement, you shouldn't engage in swimming mostly because the site where the implantation site can become stressed. And after three months, you can swim but have to avoid strokes that could damage the pace maker like butterfly. I know there is conflicting information on line about this so again, check with your doctor.
Avatar f tn Dear Shabna, The reason that there are 2 incisions for the pacemaker placement is that your child is an infant, which means that the pacemaker is an epicardial pacemaker system. This means that the pacemaker leads have to be attached to the outside of the heart, and this is separate from the placement of the pacemaker generator in the abdomen. Your father, as an adult with large blood vessels, has a transvenous pacemaker system.
Avatar n tn I imagine each case is different but my Dad went from ICD to pacemaker with no problem. They used the same leads but the placement may have been different than yours. I hope your switch goes as easily as his did.
Avatar f tn I am 25 years old. I have a a pacemaker for 24 years. My current pacemaker is located on my left side just below my rib cage. I want children. I am afraid that the placement of it will become an issue if I am pregnant. I am on day 37 of my cycle, it usually is an average of 30 days long. Although this past 2 years have been very unusal for my cycle. In the begining of last year I used to get period and then bleed again 2 weeks after I got it. This happened until Sept.
Avatar n tn My mother had placement of a pacemaker 6 months ago. She was told that the battery should last 7-10 years. When she recently had her pacemaker checked the physician told her that she now has only 2 1/2 years of battery life left. Unfortunately, the reason for a loss of battery life was not given even after the question was presented. Can you help us understand what has happend.
Avatar f tn All surgeries have some risk, but I think catheter surgery (done with catheters through an artery) are among the lest dangerous. You didn't say why you are considering surgery. If the "problem" is minor you may want to consider living with it rather than take any risk. Talk it over with your doctor. The worst I've read that I think can be a bad outcome of sinus node surgery is the sinus node shuts down and one then has to have a pacemaker implanted.
Avatar m tn For third-degree heart block, anticholinergics or sympathomimetics may be prescribed temporarily while a temporary pacemaker is inserted followed by placement of a permanent pacemakerock. First-degree heart block requires no treatment. Exercise or drug treatment that decreases vagal tone (anticholinergics) may reverse Mobitz type I, butTreatment depends on the type of block. First-degree heart block requires no treatment.
Avatar f tn Complete removal of the former pacing system and placement of custom-made silicone free pacemaker components and epicardial use of silicone free transvenous leads were essential for successful therapy.
Avatar f tn How do you know the "batteries need replacing"? Modern pacemakers don't just "die". When the battery voltage drops to a certain level. The pacemaker will go into an "end of life mode" (battery, not person). It's sort of a last ditch conservation mode until the battery can be replaced. What happens then is the pacemaker will fire to a preset pulse rate. It will no longer take into account what the user's heart is doing.
Avatar m tn This suggests that the primary (atrial) pacemaker is not functioning, and the back-up pacemaker in the ventricles is determining the low heart rate. This is likely, but ocasionally the atria also responds in this manner. Talk to your cardiologist.
Avatar f tn I have a medtronic pacemaker,battery change next year,but can low blood pressure be due to low battery, also had stent put in august, 90% lad clogged. I have the pacer that's not defublator, pressure drops to low kicks in. I have been feeling dizzy tired no appetite, nauseated, but have to eat because of meds have to take. I am having pain in my chest and kind of short of breath.
Avatar m tn The cardiologist there said that he needed to replace his 8 year old pacemaker. Obviously, the operation would require transportation to a hospital. Does this make sense? Is the risk of an adverse outcome outweight the risk of not having the operation performed? Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Avatar m tn I had a pacemaker implanted two weeks ago. I am perhaps being overly cautious, but how easily are the leads dislodged? I have been careful to keep my left arm from rising above shoulder level, and sleep with a sling in place. I am left handed and it is a chore, but I understand that I am to keep it below shoulder level for a month. Is there a warning system in palce that will tell me if a lead becomes dislodged?
Avatar f tn I am 1 1/2 post pacemaker implant. I am so exhausted that I just want to sleep all the time. No pain or anything else. I also had a heart attack 4 wks ago with a stent placement. Should I be this exhausted after these 2 procedures?
Avatar n tn My cardiologist told me before the stent was put in that i should have my 2-wire pacemaker replaced with a 3-wire pacemaker. So I began making arrangements for this procedure. Now my Cardiologist tells me that I have to wait another 5 months to do this because I don't dare stop the Plavix and aspirin. And that I cannot have any kind of invasive surgery during the 1st 6 months. I just learned this a month after the stent was put in. My main question is this. What all is invasive surgery?
1331422 tn?1326566597 I got a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted the end of June. The surgery is only a couple of hours and they kept me overnight. I was a little sore but nothing like other surgeries I've had. I recovered extremely quickly. They say not to raise your arm for the first week, no lifting, pushing or pulling for 6 weeks, no jogging or cardio workout for 4-5 weeks. Pretty much the same restrictions as with any surgery except you have to be really careful not to pull the leads out of your heart.
723800 tn?1230887234 Hi, I had my first pacemaker when I was 19 due to being born with a congential heart block, so I was given dual wire pacemaker, everything seemed to be working well as far my cardiologist was concerned when they discovered that 1 of the wires was'nt working properly, although I was not having any side affects to this but because of the size of the pacemaker to which they inserted I did recieve quite a few episodes of chest pains.
Avatar n tn My father aged 100 has decided not to replace his pacemaker battery and in September was told he had 3 months life left in it. To date is is almost 4 months - can anyone give me the symptoms he will experience when the battery starts to wind down - will death be immediate or slow? He has no underlying heart rythym - can the doctors be wrong when they give this diagnosis? Currently there are no obvious signs of failure.
Avatar f tn There are criteria from an electrical as well as from a symptom standpoint for pacemaker placement. The hope is to keep from putting in a pacer until he meets those criteria, since pacemakers don’t last forever, and he will need to have them replaced periodically through his life. I would anticipate that once he gets his pacemaker, though, he should do well, assuming there are no other structural or function problems with his heart.
Avatar f tn I finally found my solo MRI, the one taken before I had my pacemaker and unfortunately it was done on a 1.5T machine.........sigh...........so between no MRI and no LP (scoliosis - doc and I say NO NO NO), I am going to be the hardest to Dx.......but holding out faith for the new neuro in October who has a rep of being fair...... When I had my MRI, I knew nothing about these different types of MRI machines.......you guys have really made progress.......