Mary, Welcome to the pacer club!
I've had mine since 05 and as you, was admitted via ER (night with pacer pads on, spitting out reams of paper to keep the 'tele' people busy pasting it on sheets for my file and finally admitted to ICCU. It was a roller coaster trip. I enjoyed your conversation, having missed using all those big words all the time!
So hope you are back to normal soon and happy with your "ever ready bunny"
I have to have my battery replaced next winter, am down to having a pacer check every month now.
Take your time, we'll all be here waiting for you!
(((Mary))),
Goodness girl...so much happening in your world. I am so sorry you have had to deal with all this, and so quickly. I am so glad you didn't wait any longer than you did to get to the ER. Very scary stuff!
I am thinking of you, take care of yourself and keep your wonderful sense of humor and eloquent way of speaking!
Much love and hugs,
Michelle
Hi Mary, i still love Winnie, i thought you were going to talk about falling down that darn rabbit hole, which you sorta did, again.
I always find it facinating how hard it is to know for sure if a pwMS is having heart issues because of autonomatic dysfunction or if its a seperate issue, but your guy called a spade a spade so now we know! Just a thought, have we ever done a poll on this, cant recall anything on heart rate but think there was something lol can't remember but it might be interesting to see just how many 'dx MSers' we have here that also have this issue too.
lol DH is looking over my shoulder and next thing i know he's sticking his iphone on my finger errr apparently sitting here i'm 71, DH's goes down to 45 but he's really fit. DH did it again whilst we were having dinner, i always say eating is tiring and i was up to 97, which he didn't like but it was my hand that never stops moving so could of been a faulty reading, the other hand came out at 87. (now i've totally fogotten what i was going to ask lol)
I so dont get how you functioned with only 29 beats, mind boggling but i am pleased you were on the ball, again!
Hugs.............JJ
Mary!
You have such a way of describing some tale of woe with such humor, and joyful reading, but yet I learn so much too! How the heck you do that? Indeed sweet lady, you have not lost so much of what makes you - you.
I hope your body begins to get in sync w/it's new equipment, and that you can feel well while you do what you do best :) We learn so much from your posts. Your so right too when you say we here need each other.
Thank you for giving us a peek of what's been going on. Big cyber hugs to you!
-shell
As always beautifully written and chock full of information!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I, too, have dips into the 40s and rates racing to 200...need to discuss this with my cardiologist next visit.
In the meantime, behave yourself, even though you're bored, no marathons or other activities to test out your new ticker.
I hope you get your release to return to work soon.
Hugs,
Ren
I can't believe the coincidence of you writing about your experience just when I thought I was going mad!
I too have been having a severe bradycardia. I've been coming into daycare every day this week and the nurses have been monitoring my pulse and BP. My pulse has been hovering between 40 and 49. I saw my doctor yesterday and told him about it and he just dismissed it as if it was trivial.
I have just weaned off Florinef for autonomic hypotension and now this crops up.
I have no intention of ignoring this and after hearing your story, I will pursue this through a hospital ED.
thanks sooo much for posting about your experience. It's made me adamant that I will have this investigated.
Regards
Chirley