Wow, on the quick decision to install a pacemaker at such a young age. We do have one or more younger aged pacemaker patients on this Community, I hope they can give you some experience information.
Exercise with a pacemaker is something that is, I hope, approved by your doctor. But, it sounds like you are doing fine in that regard... as for hormones, it is possible that could be a stimulus and problematic. Make some tests on your diet to see if any improvement can be found.
Hi Jerry,
Thank you for your post. Yes, a very quick decision to put in a PM. If I knew then what I know today, I would have never allowed them to put it in. Anyway, thank you for your post. I think I am going to see an endocrinologist. Hopefully, they can give me some answers.
I don't think the pacemaker and PVCs are related if the pacer is working properly. When
I agree on the pacer implant. that would be indicated for symptomatic bradycardia (slow heart rate). that's all a pacer can do is speed your heart rate up, and the only reason why you'd want to do that is because, well it's too slow.
I've never heard of a pacemaker being used to pace-out SVT. I could be wrong, someone correct me if I am.
If it were me, I'd like to know how often the pacemaker is activating. Your doc's can tell this by interrogating it. If it's not even getting used at all, perhaps consider removing it.
Hi, Thank you for your comment. Perhaps my post wasn't clear. The pacemaker was not implanted to control my SVT but to keep my heart rate at a "normal" level. However, after I got the pacer, my PVC's got a lot worse as they were nearly non-existant before implantation. My heart throws itself into SVT once it's had enough of the PVC's. For some reason after an SVT attack, my heart rate returns to normal. For the first two years after the implantation I was using it about 3% of the time and only when I was sleeping. As a healthy active female in her 20's, it is normal to have a heart rate that is in the 40's while sleeping. Over the years, I use my PM much more and that is because it is set higher and higher each time to bypass the PVC's. All my pm is really doing is helping with the PVC's. I would like to know if anyone else has PVC's 3-5 hours post exercise and if they think this could be hormone related.