Should we be worried?!
Question: my dad is 67 years old and has had a pacemaker for 5 years 2 months and 9 days and now he says it feels like a bee sting when it shocks his heart and the scary thing is he has never once felt it shock his heart till recently. he is not scheduled for an appointment with the doctor for 1 month and 5 days and thats all the way in another county. should we be worried? could this mean his heart is slowing down more? should we maybe call the doctors office and ask for an earlier appointment? please help me im so scared! im worried i may lose my best friend. thats what he is my dad and best friend
Answers: my dad is 67 years old and has had a pacemaker for 5 years 2 months and 9 days and now he says it feels like a bee sting when it shocks his heart and the scary thing is he has never once felt it shock his heart till recently. he is not scheduled for an appointment with the doctor for 1 month and 5 days and thats all the way in another county. should we be worried? could this mean his heart is slowing down more? should we maybe call the doctors office and ask for an earlier appointment? please help me im so scared! im worried i may lose my best friend. thats what he is my dad and best friend
Hey Hun,
Don't worry about the ignorant people! I would call his MD and report what's going on because from the sound of it there may be something brewing. I say better safe than sorry right.
Let me know how things turn out.
the human body is about 65% water and i think salt has something to do about conductability.
I would not wait for a month for the doctor apppointment..I am not saying that you should worry but it does not hurt to pick up the phone and get his doctor's opinion...cardiologists get those calls all the times and your dad's doctor will be happy to answer the question...good luck
Call them - they will ease your worries. Being he's a patient already perhaps they will feel waiting a month to long or talk you through some 'suggestions' to comfort you!
You need to call his doctor immediately, it couild be a malfuntion of the pacemaker or his heart. He needs to get to the doctor.
How old are you? Twelve? Talk like an adult.
Get your dad in to the doctor sooner.
Kevin is an idiot. Pacemaker firing has nothing to do with salt content of the body.
It could be something like one of the leads is developing a break. It would make him feel it when it works. A pacemaker doesn't shock the heart. It helps it to maintain a normal sinus rhythm.
Because he's feeling it now doesn't mean it's working more than it was. It may simply be a problem with a wire and so he's FEELING it more, not that it's working more. If it's a functional pacemaker, it should be continuously working.
Either way you should put a call in to your father's doctor and let him know what's going on. He could probably give you the name of a local cardiologist you could see.
Are you sure you're not talking about a defibrillator? A defibrillator shocks the heart.