Hi, newbi. This has been a very long and interesting year. Which started off with a bloodclot in the spine as big as my fist, and ended with a pacemaker. After many tests it was decided on the autonomic failure. I started working only 7 days ago. Hoping to stay out of hospitals for the festive season, now I am having this moments where it feels as if someone nocked my breath out of me. Is this normal? Is it something the pacemaker is doing, keeping the beat. I wake up at night sitting up straight gasping for my breath for a second or so, as if I had some kind of panic attack in my sleep. Then comes the dizzyness thereafter. The room will spin for another second or so. I just got such a fright since the last time my heart rate dropped from 42 beats to 8 beats in a few hours and the doctor nearly jumped my chest to bits..