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I am hoping this will show properly. This is my new adventure. Implanted the day before Valentine’s Day February 13 and will be connected on Monday, 27 February. I am hoping it works and I truly get a second chance at life.🙏🏻 According to my EP, if it all continues as the first part did, I could find this life-changing for me. I pray others get the same opportunity. He told me just a couple of years ago what they had for a pacemaker would not work for me, and I would continue in heart failure, which usually ends up meaning a transplant. If a person is lucky. They are working every day to find new ways to give us quality of life. 😊

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Threecats profile image
Threecats

Hi Dawn

That looks amazing! I sincerely hope that it works for you. I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow. TC x

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DawnTX in reply toThreecats

hi hon thank you so much. I don’t know if anyone might be interested, but I am lucky enough to be given the chance with it because the other pacemakers would not work for me. I have no doubt there are others I would here just like me. I met the tech who will help my doctor when I was in the hospital on the 13th. I will also see him again on the third. I think it is with my doctor again to fine-tune things. I am starting to get excited I’m just afraid to be excited in case it doesn’t work right like my cardioversion. 😞 it had not crossed my mind that I wouldn’t get some type of relief from that so when they told me it failed, I was really upset. These are things we all need to be aware of as far as things don’t always work. My doctor has been very positive and upbeat, however I always get that little something from him knowing he can’t promise anything. It’s better to know that then be crushed if it fails.

but I think I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully it’s not a train lol.

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Threecats in reply toDawnTX

You’ve had a few too many trains Dawn! High time for a lovely bit of daylight at the end of the tunnel this time around 😊

I’m very glad you’ve found a good doctor who you can trust, it makes all the difference.

Keeping everything crossed for you x

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Gumbie_Cat

All the best Dawn - you’ve had such a rough ride. You will be like Bionic Woman soon, ready to face anything!

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CDreamer

Hi Dawn - it has been available for a few years now and it’s the algorithm which is unique.

I’m curious as to why it was not connected immediately? Mine was connected and programmed to restrict my HR to 70 and then adjusted 6 weeks later. I was in AF when PM was implanted - which stopped as soon as it was switched on. I have a slightly earlier version without all the bells and whistles but it certainly gave me a new lease of life and sincerely hope it works as well for you.

Very best wishes

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Goosebumps in reply toCDreamer

hello CD. Could you clarify a bit please. I thought a pacemaker didn’t stop the atria fibrillating but provided regularly heartbeats from the ventricles. Did all your symptoms disappear when it was turned on?

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CDreamer in reply toGoosebumps

It just stopped my AF period.

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stoneyrosed

Hope all goes well Dawn x

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DawnTX

thank you so much

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jeanjeannie50

Looks great, wishing you well.

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DawnTX in reply tojeanjeannie50

thank you hon. I already have it in me. They will ablate after they connect on Monday.

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Nannysue1 in reply toDawnTX

This is what I have and I feel so good now.

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Bagrat

Hope all goes well, technology is amazing

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Afibflipper

Hope all goes well DawnTX - I’ll be keeping tabs on you keep updating 😊

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mrgwair567

Hope all goes well tomorrow! Best wishes!

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DawnTX in reply tomrgwair567

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wilsond

Best wishes to you xx

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opal11uk

Had mine 8 years now and it certainly is a life changer, good luck with yours!

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fairyfeathers

I wish you well. x

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Sheepbreeder

Had mine implanted on 9th Feb last. Going back for it to be checked in a few weeks followed by AV node ablation. All good so far.

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oscarfox49

Interesting but I always was told that no kind of 'pacemaker' device would work with AF as it was not a case of ensuring there is a beat but stopping the arrhythmia and tachycardia. We certainly need to know far more about such a device and how it works, especially if it can help just a small proportion of people.

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Buffafly in reply tooscarfox49

Dawn is having ‘pace and ablate’ I think.

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Ppiman

All the best, young lady!

STeve

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Cha275rL

Thinking of you today. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Noni99

That’s incredible! Best of luck to you!! :)))

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Ossie7

sending you positive vibes today Dawn . Got everything crossed fur you x

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a241529

Sending prayers up for you to have a new lease on life! Let us know how you are doing. Your posts have been so helpful to a newbie like me and I wish you well.

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4chickens

good luck with the connection today. Sounds like it could be a game changer

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Buffafly

Best wishes, looking forward to update x

All the very best Dawn in your last step to having a far better quality of life. I have both the pacemaker and an AV node ablation and life has changed immeasurably for the better! The AF is still there but you don’t feel it as the pacemaker is in charge of the main heartbeat. It is the main heartbeat! I have had only one problem and that was with ectopics. My superb cardiologist upped the pacing to 80 bpm and I felt nothing more. I have a “Merlin” transmitter sitting by my bed which can track what is going on with the pacemaker and download the information to the hospital. My next checkup is merely a download from the pacemaker in a year and then another appointment the following year which will be in person. In theory, I believe the pacing team could make tweaks to the pacemaker without you having to physically attend the hospital but that this is never done as it would be totally unethical. You will find your quality of life improvement a real gift so much so that I wondered why I hadn’t had the procedures years earlier! Of course you will have to stop playing rugby and other contact sports now Dawn!! AnneL

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Tantaanna

where in Tx did you have your ablations? Curious as I came from Minnesota to Austin after I had three in Minnesota. After two years of NSR began to have funky beats only at night. But calmed down to now intermittent af and hr jumps from 70-130 back and forth. Yes I’m in contact with Tx Dr who says no pacemaker. Here in Minnesota trying to seek care from MHI my previous Drs - on meds that are playing havoc

Originally MHI -(after my 2019 third ablation)wanted to do a pacemaker but said I would still feel the af and still be in at

Headaches from med so terrible. Trying all my previous (from 2014 first af encounter) techniques/ breath, yoga, magnesium baths lotion

It feels so depressing and hard to have hr jump around/ been in the ER , talk with nurses

Finding gratitude each day for this column and my faith

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Snowgirl65

Keeping fingers crossed that this is your ticket to a new life. Best wishes for you.

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reinaway

I went through this procedure last year and had a Medtronic Azure pacemaker put in. I suffered many years with Tachy/Brady PAF and had very extensive symptoms which affected my QOL. Now 6 months since I can honestly say it was the best procedure I have done. It is slightly worrying that it is not reversible and somewhat of a last resort and although the AF is still there my pacemaker keeps my ventricles nice and steady while my atria are dancing and I feel virtually nothing. Best of all I can sleep well!! 🤩 Good luck with your procedures and you'll be dancing in the aisles in no time. xx

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