In the beginning times of having a pacemaker, it can take some adjustments. Tell your EP md about the symptoms. A 7.5 second pause is very significant, but THAT shouldn't happen anymore. Are you set at a base rate of 60? Is your pacer rate responsive? They usually are any more and they are GREAT. I got mine for bradycardia and pauses (and stopped) caused by the heart medicines. It has made life a LOT easier. Mostly, it has made me be not dead yet and I guess you can't beat that. Once you get it adjusted to you, you won't even really notice it much except to know it is doing its job saving your life day after day.
About the ticker. I don't know how to change that. Obviously I do not have the goal of gainin up to 260 pounds though I may have already done that over Christmas. I hope I can edit it. Maybe I will just delete it and start over.
I haven't been through what you are going through but sure hope you have found someone who can help by now. I have a granddaughter who will be three soon and I want to feel better for her. My daughter (her mother) is the one who told me about dysautomonia. She put it this way, "Mom, you better tell your doctors, your dentists and any of your health care workers that you have dysautonomia before one of them kills you." I said, "What is dysautonomia." That was this Christmas so now I am looking for someone in our area who is a specialist. I haven't found anyone so I think I will be my own "speicalist" until that time. I'm trying to learn what I can. Maybe we can share anything new we find in our area.