Hi all, my dad has a pacemaker for a heart block and a collapse. He is awaiting OHS for aortic valve replacement. Yesterday, he felt a pin prick type pain just above the pacemaker scar (top left shoulder) - he had 3 of these “pains” over the course of a couple of hours. On the advice of 111, we brought him into A&E where he went on to have a further 9 “pains” (all the same place / same sensation). He had two ECGs which were fine, no chest pains or feeing unwell. A chest x ray showed everything in place with the pacemaker. We are waiting to see the cardiology team this morning to check the pacemaker.
The nurse we saw wondered if the weather (we had awful storms here yesterday, with lightening / thunder but dad was inside all day), could’ve caused these “pains”, as she has seen quite a few patients before who have had pacemaker pains when the weather was stormy.
Please can I ask if anyone else with a pacemaker has experienced something similar? We are just waiting to see the cardiology team to check the pacemaker, but the doc we saw hadn’t heard of thunder storms causing issues before (but he said he didn’t have much knowledge about pacemakers).