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To: jimtorr
My first sign of heart rhythm issues happened in 1994 when my pilots physical began requiring an EKG. I was OK with it and had a waiver. In 2008 I had a heat stroke putting up hay in the heat of the summer. After that my heart rhythm got knocked off enough my heart began to enlarge because the valves weren't in time. I was put on meds to keep things ok.

Fast forward to 2020 and I began to have serious vertigo and hallucinations during the physical tasks in my job. My discharge fraction was very low. Like 21%.

Today with a synchronization pacemaker I'm at 50% which is a perfectly normal heart function. No heart disease, no high blood pressure, no clogged or hardened arteries. Never smoked. Now my heart is normal size too.

8 posted on 04/11/2022 1:29:01 PM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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To: blackdog

Glad to hear your pacemaker helped and I hope you had help paying for it.

I have one as well. The cardiologist at the VA who put it in said it the Mercedes-Benz of pacemakers.

Ejection fraction of 21% is pretty low. I had one measurement in the upper teens, but like you, mine is much improved these days.


19 posted on 04/11/2022 4:01:31 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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