pacemaker rhythms

I just had a dual lead pacemaker put in 3 days ago to control accelerated junctional rhythm. The same night of surgery I had ajr of 135 it had overridden my pacemaker. I continue to have junctional rhythms and very rarely is my heart rate,at 85 which is what pacemaker is set at. I can't walk from one room to another without heart racing and out of breath. I feel horrible.. Will this get better as maybe my heart is irritated? I feel worse than. Before pacemaker.

Life Vest would likely be more effective for treatment of these lethal rhythms but you mentioned that there is no history of defibrillator shocks (i.e no history of lethal rhythms or no history of lethal rhythms long enough to warrant therapy). Amiodarone have frequent side effects, most (but not all) are associated with long term use. Obviously it is not a case with using LifeVest. On the other hand you mentioned that biventricular pacemaker helps for ‘irregular beats’.

I also got the 2 leads pacemaker and my av node ablated in 1985. The doctor said the pacemaker will pace out of any rhythms. As soon as the pacemaker is working, don't have to worry about the rhythms including V-Fib. Ask Dr McWilliams, he told some people here that long term pacing the right ventricle can cause heart failure. I don't want my heart fail... but my heart does make a lot of mistakes! Take care.

I had a pacemaker implanted in June of 2001 for a disease called Sick Sinus Syndrome. The pacemaker took care of all the issues I was going through at first, but over the past few years the symptoms are returning. The PVC's are becoming extreme. I have started passing out again, and I feel exhausted. I am 31 years old, and I am really getting concerned. My father died at age 32 from a massive heart attack, and my mother has the same condition I have been diagnosed with.

When i visited a different cardiologist couple weeks ago, he said that while i had a junctional rhythm, it didn't sound like something that was a danger...His wording was "The heart rhythm textbook is 6 inches thick and your rhythm is in chapter 1"...He also said "if you are given medication for this rhythm doesn't mean it will go away, but if you don't take any medication, it does not mean you'll die"...

//www.mayoclinic.com/health/biventricular-pacemaker/HB00084. Hope this help.

I don't understand your question, but: 1) I believe bypass surgery (to replace blocked arteries) is not considered "open heart surgery". 2) I believe a defibrillator and pacemaker do not require open heart surgery. Why do you want open heart surgery?

Example, it cuts down (filter) the rate from the Atrial then delivers to the ventricle? Or it would passing 100% rhythms from the Atrial to the ventricle?

The frequency of the machine ranges from 2.9Hz to 50Hz....will this be harmful to the pacemaker if it is being used on her feet? I am hoping that she will be able to use this for her neuropathy and solve her pain that she has been experiencing.

I assume it is a pacemakers that you reference. It is used to treat heart rhythms that are too slow, fast, or irregular. Pacemakers can relieve some symptoms related to irregular heartbeats. It can help your father who has an abnormal heart rhythm have some assurance of a stable heart rate.

my heart came to a grinding halt as I got started. Now, we medicate the rhythms away, but I pacemaker does the rhythms instead. Sometimes I feel TERRIBLE from all the meds. The flecainide does upset my tummy to a degree, but the worst is the negative inotropic effects bundled together to give me nearly no blood pressure. I get so tired and dizzy.

Hey! Good question! First off a pacemaker will not necessarily correct AFib. Some forms of pacing can help reduce burden but it’s actually one of the least effective methods and is therefore reserved for when other methods fail. Alternatively if one requires a pacing device for some other reason other than Afib it may be appropriate (ie for heart failure) More appropriate therapy would be either an ablation procedure or medications.

Because it has a pacemaker built into it, a defibrillator also has the capability of stimulating the heart like a pacemaker, to help stop fast rhythms, at times, and to prevent the heart from getting too slow. "Pacemakers are a somewhat controversial treatment for neurocardiogenic syncope. Many studies have suggested the efficacy of pacemakers.

A pacemaker is for people whose rhythms go too slow. When it is in place, it will pick up and start pacing for the heart. It cannot make a heart regular. So, to answer your question, it is not an answer for PVCs.

The purpose was to get rid of the rhythms and then get the pacemaker. After that we had to just get rid of the rhythms with meds and then get the pacemaker too. Now.. the meds are just unravelling me. I love the pacer. I HOPE there is some way to get rid of the rhythms and just be totally pacer dependent. It almost seems an odd question, but I need another plan. Does anyone know of a great answer? I am up for anything. 2 years ago, I wasn't even willing to try an ablation.

79 yr old female with increasing lengths of episodes up to 4 hours per episode, and several episodes of varying rhythms each day. Candidate for ablaton therapy? Pacemaker?? See my cardiologist tomrw 1/21/11. Sigh. Had card Cath 2 weeks ago. Some plaque. Really need relief. Now up to 300mg diltiazem daily.

t take them though, my rate runs away. The ablations were only marginally successful. A pacemaker now prevents me from too slow side effects of the meds, but I have learned that hypotension can still be a problem. Are there other meds that would do the job of rhythm control without crashing my pressures so badly? Most days, it is down to 90s/50s, but some days it can be considerably lower.

Okay I'm 53 male with a st. Jude pacemaker. Today I was wearing a set of wireless headphones. While carving some wood I felt unusually faint. I stopped and took my pulse. Heart rate was 46. Is it possible the headphones interfered with the pacemakers computer and caused it to stop...my rythum is set at 60bpm...

I recently had a pacemaker implanted and I'm concerned whether it is safe or not to continue using our Ionic Pro ionic air purifier in the same room?

so the md could treat the bad rhythms with drugs. It takes a LOT to control them and then my own rhythms are gone. It couldn't be treated without killing me if I didn't have the pacer. I love it! It brings me a great deal of day to day reassurance. Hope that word of encouragement helps.

Hi. I'm 35 & have had SVT since I was 16. I've had 4 ablations since then, the 1st @ 19, 2nd @ 20, 3rd Aug 08 & the last one Oct 08. I also have Lupus on top of it all. I was still having trouble with it after my last one so I was put on Diltiazem. It seemed to help by making it less frequent. It really doesn't beat that fast, only 100-110, and only about 30% of the time. However, the pounding is what bothers me most.

s, some pauses and artial fib, I have been taking metropl with no real success. would a dual pacemaker work better to resolve these? I am a 63 yr old male with no other medical issues and a clear ultrasound and nuclear stress test.

his can go over 200 and down to 58 with out any issues (scares me as he might stroke out) a few weeks ago he went from 110 (normal down to 48 and passed out. he just bought himself a pacemaker his cardiologist said. he did wear a holter monitor also for 24 hours. it showed a hr of 48 while he was a sleep, DR wasn't concerned. and the highest was 174 at rest.

For a perspective, abnormal heart rhythms are diagnosed by noting the rate of the P waves and QRS complexes, whether expected P waves or QRS complexes are absent and alterations in the normal 1:1 relationship between the P wave and QRS complexes. The P wave are impulses that contract the upper chambers and the QRS complex are impulses for the ventricle to contract after filling (includes part of the P wave during filling stage). That would be the one to one relationship.

My father 75 recently had a defib/pacemaker. He was great for a while.(about a week) Since then he has had lost a great deal of weight. He has the shakes so bad he cannot eat, becuase he cannot eat he is losing his appetite and strength. They put him on a beta-blocker Metoprolol. He coughs so bad he chokes.

I had a sinus node modification and my heart rate continued to drop after ablation -- leaving me in a junctional rhythm with pauses while I slept. After a 30 day monitor I was forced to get a pacemaker. My diagnosis is medically induced sick sinus syndrome. .... I wish I would have waited to have my ablations, but they were actually done after some pre-op testing for a neuro surgery.

I recently had a failed ablation (due to sedation issues and proximity to the phrenic nerve) for IST and SVT and atrial flutter. They redid the ablation successfully with an epicardial balloon and general anesthesia. Fixed the SVT. Fixed the atrial flutter. And maybe over modified my sinus node for the IST. I went from going up to 210bpm at rest and NEVER under 120 to today.

A Holter monitor study in Sept. 2012 showed i have had sinus rhythm along with junctional rhythm....In 2010 i had an event monitor that showed some parasysmal atrial tachycardia....In past, i use to have more episodes of rapid heart rate, but in last year it seems to have subsided...Now, i experience more skipped beats type of feelings, BUT the rapid heart rates and anxiety seems to have disappeared....

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