Not sure, greetings from 6-6-97 and need info or help. (Heart)

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Hello everyone my name is Bob from Massachusetts, some of you will

remember me as Sog. I know Vitalady will.... Hello Vitalady :-) I

had open rny in June 97 and went from 367 to 185 and have been

holding at 195 to 200 for about two years now?. I am ok with that

although like the rest of us we can never get to skinny or two rich

I would like to get that extra weight off. But that's not what I am

trying to figure out. About two and a half years ago I was sick and

the weight went down to 173 to make a long story short I had stage

two colon cancer that I seem to have recovered from even though I

have a couple spots on my liver foes not seem to be anything and I

still need to wait for the five year mark. And believe it or not

that is still not the problem. I am ok with that I think. For the

past year an old heart problem has came back now that I am 58 years

old. Its Atriel fibrillation and after the Doc's not having any luck

with medicines and I wonder if the failyer of medicines has anything

to do with malabsorbtion which is one of my questions, Now finally

the crux of the story. It finally donned on me to perhaps ask in

here. Two weeks ago the cardiologist put me in the hospital after

trying two cardio versions that didn't put me back in rhythm. She

decided to do an ablation and install a Pace maker. The summary is

that the ablation did not work that well because in 1965 I had the

femoral veins tied off and she had to go through the neck. I got a

Medtronic kappa 800 dr pace maker and that has a double lead which

is in both chambers of the heart as opposed to one chamber and this

is supposed to pace me because my heart goes to low as well as two

fast. The Doc. says it wont slow me down that's why I take 240 mills

of verapemil and .025 of digoxin each day and 7.5 mills of coumidin.

I feel very good and have almost no symptoms and am going back to

work Mon. My question is what exactly does this pace maker do. The

doc says that it can't slow me down that's why the medicine, but

when I wake in the morning my heart is 57 an sometime during the day

it can shoot to 145. I think the pace maker kicks in at 75. I asked

the doc and her thinking seems to conflict with the booklet that I

got that says it paces me to my activity. I went to the pace maker

web sight and can't find anything, This model is so new It's not

even on there sight yet. If anyone can figure out anything from what

I said here I would love a little feedback. I am not asking for

medical advice because I know better then that but when I have had

questions in the past the identification I got was wonderful. Please

post here or feel free to write me at this e-mail address or at

sog1972@...

Yours Fraternally

Bob (Sog)

sog1972@...

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> I went to the pace maker web sight and can't find anything, This

model is so new It's not even on there sight yet. <<

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Hi Bob,

Is there a number on their website you can call? I think that's the

best way to get info. Glad you're feeling well, and don't be such a

stranger!

in NJ