Kadje

Disclaimer: I have not been officially diagnosed with dysautonomia, even though I am positive that I have it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have bradycardia. I had to get a pacemaker 2 1/2 years ago. My resting heart rate is around 40 bpm without the pacemaker. I did not feel well even with my heart rate in the 50s, so I had the pacemaker set to go no lower than 60 bpm. I would be concerned, too, since your resting heart rate was usually so high.

Jenwic, Oh my, I had such dreadful night sweats for many years! Often I had to sleep in a cotton terry robe on top of beach towels on the sheets and try to just let them soak up the sweat so I could get a little more sleep. Every time I drifted off to sleep I was jarred awake by a sweating incident. I thought it was hormonal because I was close to 40 when they started. I used natural progesterone cream for years. That helped some. Then, in April of 2006, I had to have a pacemaker implanted. After that my night sweats stopped. Completely. Now I believe that the night sweats may have been keeping me alive. When I was in the hospital, the night before my PM was implanted, my heart rate was going down into the 20s! Since then, I have had hot flashes during the day. I am now 53. But I am so thankful that I don't have those night sweats any more. What a luxury to sleep through the night and wake up dry! (I am new here, so I don't know your history. Since you have a cardiologist, I guess you've worn a holter monitor so you would know whether your pulse is too low at night. But, maybe my story will help someone, anyway.)

Hello mkoven, This is my very first post here. I have a pacemaker for bradycardia (stage 3 heart block). I get PACs and PVCs. More PVCs than PACs. I can feel them but am not sure whether it's the PVCs or PACs I'm feeling. I get a bit short of breath and have that heart-skipping sensation. (The pacemaker does not help the arrhythmias. It just keeps my pulse within a certain range.) I was given the impression that they were benign.