FredEx
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Too much happening the last 6 months. Not felt right for many months, been tested for everything. Finally I lead the cardiologist to a problem. I told him my pulse when I check my blood pressure is always 60. Unusual it is that low all the time for me. I have a pacemaker due to a defect that I was born with and acted up in early 2011. He looked at my records and then had me go into the pacemaker lab. The hot tech babe didn't even get my heart to speed up. My pacemaker is set to run at 60 to 120. They checked the onboard memory and it showed it constantly fires to keep me at 60 beats, but it is otherwise unresponsive. I could run a mile and it doesn't pace me faster than at 60 beats. When I did an exercise bike last year I could get up to 127, a tad over what the pacemaker limit is. They adjusted the sensitivity. It helped a tad, but I never went over 71 in the next month. When back in I had the hot babe tech watching the pacemaker readings while another straddled me pushing around my chest. They got the pacemaker to report external interference. What they determined is one of the two leads is flakey. I need a new pacemaker.
Okay, here is a problem. I also went in to set up a dental exam. I need extensive work. It goes way back to an old medication causing my gums to swell. I'm long off that med, but the damage it did lingers although the swelling is gone. I have to have $6800.00 US in dental work. They can't/won't do the pacemaker until the dental work is done. The reason is there could be a bacteria problem in my mouth and if they did the pacemaker my body might attack the pacemaker and leads as it does the bacteria.
I go for the dental work Thursday, I'll be paying for it for 4 years. After the dental work is done on the 4th and a week of healing goes by I'll call about getting the new pacemaker. At least that is covered by insurance. I have no dental coverage and it would only cover basic stuff, not all I have to get done.
The dangerous part...when I got the pacemaker my heart had slowed to 30 beats, but I felt okay, found it out by coincidence when getting something else checked. They are not sure my heart any longer has that 30 beats back-up. Could be if that lead totally fails, it is lights out permanently for me.
Take care mates.
Okay, here is a problem. I also went in to set up a dental exam. I need extensive work. It goes way back to an old medication causing my gums to swell. I'm long off that med, but the damage it did lingers although the swelling is gone. I have to have $6800.00 US in dental work. They can't/won't do the pacemaker until the dental work is done. The reason is there could be a bacteria problem in my mouth and if they did the pacemaker my body might attack the pacemaker and leads as it does the bacteria.
I go for the dental work Thursday, I'll be paying for it for 4 years. After the dental work is done on the 4th and a week of healing goes by I'll call about getting the new pacemaker. At least that is covered by insurance. I have no dental coverage and it would only cover basic stuff, not all I have to get done.
The dangerous part...when I got the pacemaker my heart had slowed to 30 beats, but I felt okay, found it out by coincidence when getting something else checked. They are not sure my heart any longer has that 30 beats back-up. Could be if that lead totally fails, it is lights out permanently for me.
Take care mates.
