An update on me

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As a lot of you know I've been having a lot of syncope episodes daily, Dr. B

ordered an mri and eeg which turned out normal, then i had a 24 hour holter anda

24 hour eeg. The 24 hour eeg turned out normal but much to my surprise the

holter did not. It showed my heartrte dropping from 100 down to 40. I've been

seeing a cardiologist who did an echo and a nuclear study to check for defects

and praise the lord that came back normal also. Now I'm scheduled for an EP

study this friday, taht's where they run a catheter up a vein through the groin

up to your heart and put a wire through the catheter and send small electrical

impulses to see how your heart reacts determining the need for a pacemaker.

I went to new york last wednesday to see Dr. B for my 6 month follow up. Theres

a few things going on. First my incision is still not healing, before they had

said not to use silver nitrate to cauterize it, but now Dr. B said he still

doesn't like the idea but to do whatever it takes to get it healed. My pcp gave

me the name of a plastic surgeon who specializes in wound care. The wound

issues are due to the eds. Also Dr. B said due to the syncope issues and a

couple other things my fusion may have failed so I'm having some xrays and am

going to be wearing a cervicalthoracic collar to see who it helps my symptoms.

You can see a picture of it here http://www.aspencollar.com/PC_CTO.html Dr. B

feels that more than likely i will need a pacemaker because he said if there was

brainstem involvement it still wouldnt' cause my heart rate to drop that low,

what i didn't think to mention to him was the the holter showed it doing that in

my sleep not during the day or during my syncope episodes. He is anxious to see

the results of the EP study, whereas I'm anxious about having to have it done.

As far as the severe headaches I'm having that could be from problems with the

wound or from a potential problem with the plate, it's hard to tell. There was

one spot on my neck that hurt like heck when Dr. B would push down on it and he

kept on trying it and it kept on hurting. It just so happens that's the spot as

one of the problem spots of my incision. He injected a local anesthetic and it

still didn't keep it from hurting when he pressed on it, but i know it took

effect because i couldn't feel him touching it.

Has anybody had their fusions fail before, had problems like this with their

heartrate, or worn this type of collar before?

I know I'm full of questions and we'll eventually figure this out, I'm just so

tired of constantly being in pain.