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safeinOhio

(32,525 posts)
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 04:43 AM Dec 2020

My 5th week with a pacemaker.

Jogged 3 times this week. Miles, 3, 5 and 4. Average speed 13 and half minute per mile. Out side in the cold.

Feeling great and less tired during and after my runs. I have put on an extra 10 pounds. I'm 71 years old.

My resting pulse is now 80 beats per minute. A month before I got the pacemaker it was 45 and the week or two before I went it dropped to the high 30s and was at 28 the day I went to the ER.

I now wear a mask when I run. I can breath easier with it on as it warms the air I breath in and keeps pollen and dust out of my nose.

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DFW

(54,047 posts)
1. The few people i know/knew said a pacemaker improved their lives significantly
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 06:24 AM
Dec 2020

Even my grandfather, who got one put in at age 98. He said he didn't want anything that would artificially prolong his life. His doc said, it wouldn't do that, but it would make the rest of it better, so he consented, and lived another four years.

safeinOhio

(32,525 posts)
2. It was like lifting a curtain and coming out
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 09:49 AM
Dec 2020

of the fog. One great thing is my memory seems much better. I can find my phone and glasses now.

safeinOhio

(32,525 posts)
4. About the only negative is my tremor.
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 10:11 AM
Dec 2020

For about the last 10 years I've had an essential tremor. Not very bad and not noticeable. It seems a little worse now.

safeinOhio

(32,525 posts)
6. I have one I see once a year.
Tue Dec 29, 2020, 10:53 AM
Dec 2020

My latest research into it, I've found a correlation between tremors, blood flow and cognition. Pubmed.Gov is your friend. So, I get get the cognitive test once a year. He told me I have mild cognitive impairment. This year, I'll have lots to bring up with him.

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