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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.)
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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.
Bradycardia
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Disclaimer: I have not been officially diagnosed with dysautonomia, even though I am positive that I have it.
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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.