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I'm curious if anyone with a pacemaker has ever had a similar experience:
I had my second 6-month pacemaker appointment (interrogation, download, etc) recently and have had a mild soreness in the area of my heart ever since. It's nothing dramatic, I hardly notice it most of the time, but there is definitely something a little off, a little sore. No other problems, everything perfectly normal.
Now, during the appointment, they did the usual "Let's just turn the pacemaker off and see what happens" thing, and as usual because of my heart block, I could really feel it, and it was much more dramatic. Well, I thought, maybe there is some residual soreness/discomfort related to that? It was more pronounced the day of, and day after, then easing slightly over the last week. So, that was my completely novice guess anyway.
Now, I know the obvious answer is to call the arrythmia center, which I did. They did a remote check just to make sure everything was fine, and it was. No real medical explanation from them. No settings changes, no medicine changes, nothing that would explain it. They didn't buy into my guess that a heart in temporary distress would have residual discomfort, either, no matter how sensitive the patient.
Their best guess is that the settings are a little off, and just need to be tweaked. Something, the atrial pacing I believe, is at a higher percentage than it was in the past, so that's the targeted starting point. Still, seems a little odd to me how it would only happen immediately after a checkup.
So, just was curious if anybody else had ever experienced anything like this? Thanks.
I had my second 6-month pacemaker appointment (interrogation, download, etc) recently and have had a mild soreness in the area of my heart ever since. It's nothing dramatic, I hardly notice it most of the time, but there is definitely something a little off, a little sore. No other problems, everything perfectly normal.
Now, during the appointment, they did the usual "Let's just turn the pacemaker off and see what happens" thing, and as usual because of my heart block, I could really feel it, and it was much more dramatic. Well, I thought, maybe there is some residual soreness/discomfort related to that? It was more pronounced the day of, and day after, then easing slightly over the last week. So, that was my completely novice guess anyway.
Now, I know the obvious answer is to call the arrythmia center, which I did. They did a remote check just to make sure everything was fine, and it was. No real medical explanation from them. No settings changes, no medicine changes, nothing that would explain it. They didn't buy into my guess that a heart in temporary distress would have residual discomfort, either, no matter how sensitive the patient.
Their best guess is that the settings are a little off, and just need to be tweaked. Something, the atrial pacing I believe, is at a higher percentage than it was in the past, so that's the targeted starting point. Still, seems a little odd to me how it would only happen immediately after a checkup.
So, just was curious if anybody else had ever experienced anything like this? Thanks.