Beware: Pacemakers Can Cause Very Serious Harm

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The Pacemaker  – It will not prevent stop heart disease or prevent heart attacks.

What it will do is cost a lot of money and possibly give you side effects, perhaps including death. There are many adverse side effects of implanting a pacemaker. Some studies show up to 83% of people are suffering from severe side effects. Pacemakers are recommended for many symptoms that are also caused by medications. Did your doctor take you off the medications that caused the symptoms that warranted the pacemaker? Or did they tell you that you need a pacemaker without ruling out drugs causing the symptoms?

Did you know the side effects of having a pacemaker are the same symptoms that you would have that would have your doctor recommend a pacemaker in the first place?  There are many adverse side effects, and they are prevalent. We suggest you gather as much factual information as possible from reliable science before taking such a drastic risk.  We have compiled some documented peer-reviewed science for you to read with links to the articles.

Right from the beginning, you should know that if a defibrillator shoots out electric currents when there is no heart problem with the patient at that moment, it can cause irregular heartbeats and cardiac arrest. After a discharge causes the heart attack, the device will no longer have the power to emit another release to stop the heart attack. A defibrillator that has lost power or has issues with wiring will not emit a shockwave. Pacemakers can send out a warning signal to external devices indicating serious pulse irregularities or a heart attack. If the equipment is defective, the person may believe they are having a heart attack when they are fine. This, in turn, causes panic and a placebo effect, inducing an actual heart attack.

Pacemakers cause Pacemaker Syndrome, a severe Iatrogenic disease (Disease caused by doctors) which can lead to death.

Heart disease is reversible even when you are waiting on a heart transplant.  Dr. Dean Ornish reversed the heart disease of nine people on the heart transplant list.  There is a much better alternative than this risky, invasive, potentially deadly pacemaker procedure. We would never consider this procedure under any circumstances after investigating pacemakers for only about 6 hours for this article.

Defective Pacemakers are Extremely Common and Pose a Huge Risk

Defective Pacemakers cost 1.5 Billion Dollars to Medicare in Ten Years. Putting in Pacemakers is a $ Making Business. Some believe these numbers are extremely conservative and should be drastically higher.

So is heart disease, for that matter. Heart disease is avoidable and completely reversible if caught early enough, but that is not pushed out in the world run by big-pharma for-profit businesses. Here are some facts for you. Your doctor will not sit down and seriously discuss the points with you in detail because they get paid a lot of money to put pacemakers in. They are in the business of making money, so taking you out of it is not an option in their world.

Some doctors will not even discuss or mention pacemaker syndrome, which can be deadly.

Pacemaker syndrome, or intolerance to VVIR pacing, consists of cardiovascular signs and symptoms induced by VVIR pacing. Do you know what this means? Putting in a pacemaker can cause signs and symptoms of cardiovascular disease!

Why do we need pacemakers in the first place? Most of the time, the issue is caused by medications, including treating heart disease. Is this not just pure insanity? Just a reminder, the number one cause of death is death by doctors and the big pharma-trained doctors are told this is the answer when it is not. Putting in pacemakers is a big money-making business. Gather the facts that your doctor will not tell you.

In 2016 1.14 million pacemakers were put in. In the fiscal year 1984, Medicare paid about $42 billion to the approximately 6,000 hospitals participating in the program. They estimate that inpatient hospital services for pacemaker surgeries under Medicare in the fiscal year 1984 amounted to about $775 million, of which about $400 million represented hospital payments to manufacturers of pacemakers. 

Cardiac Implantable Devices Market to Reach $43 Billion By 2020

From the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institue

Read how utterly absurd this is. This is what they advise, and we add in our two cents.

Your doctor also may recommend a pacemaker if:

  • Aging or heart disease damages your sinus node’s ability to set the correct pace for your heartbeat. Such damage can cause slower-than-normal heartbeats or long pauses between heartbeats. The injury also can cause your heart to switch between slow and fast rhythms. This condition is called sick sinus syndrome.  

Having a pacemaker put in can cause sick sinus syndrome. So a side effect of pacemakers causes the disease it is being implanted for.

  • You need to take certain heart medicines, such as beta-blockers. These medicines can slow your heartbeat too much. So you are going to put in a pacemaker, an extremely serious procedure with risks of death, to combat a side effect of a medication? 
  • You faint or have other symptoms of a slow heartbeat. For example, this may happen if the main artery in your neck that supplies your brain with blood is sensitive to pressure. Quickly turning your neck can cause your heart to beat slower than usual. As a result, your brain might not get enough blood flow, causing you to feel faint or collapse.

Medications Cause the Symptoms that Doctors Say You Need a Pacemaker For.

A pacemaker is recommended for this, but did you know the abnormal rhythm can show up after a heart attack or as a side effect of heart surgery? Certain medications, such as those to treat high blood pressure and other arrhythmias, or abnormal heartbeats can also cause this.

  • You have heart muscle problems that cause electrical signals to travel too slowly through your heart muscle. Your pacemaker may provide cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) for this problem. CRT devices coordinate electrical signaling between the heart’s lower chambers.

More than 50 medicines have been found to cause LQTS. Some common medicines that may cause the disorder include:

  • Antihistamines and decongestants
  • Diuretics (pills that remove excess water from your body)
  • Antibiotics
  • Antiarrhythmic medicines
  • Antidepressant and antipsychotic medicines
  • Cholesterol-lowering medicines and some diabetes medicines

Doctors also may recommend pacemakers for people who have certain types of congenital heart disease or for people who have had heart transplants. Children, teens, and adults can use pacemakers.

True Incidents of Pacemaker Syndrome – Pacemaker syndrome is a disease that represents the clinical consequences of suboptimal atrioventricular (AV) synchrony or AV dyssynchrony, regardless of the pacing mode, after pacemaker implantation.[1][2] It is an iatrogenic disease—an adverse effect resulting from medical treatment—that is often underdiagnosed.[1][3]In general, the symptoms of the syndrome are a combination of decreased cardiac output, loss of atrial contribution to ventricular filling, loss of total peripheral resistance response, and non-physiologic pressure waves.

Pacemaker syndrome was clinically recognized in 83% of patients paced in the VVI mode (as compared to dual chamber mode.) with 65% of patients experiencing moderate to severe symptoms.

Overall, 12 of 16 symptoms were significantly worse in the VVI as compared to dual chamber mode. The most highly significant (P less than 0.005) were shortness of breath, dizziness, fatigue, pulsations in the neck or abdomen, cough, and apprehension.

Symptoms commonly documented in patients’ history, classified according to cause:

  • Neurological – Dizziness, near syncope, and confusion.
  • Heart failure – Dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, and edema.
  • Hypotension – Seizure, mental status change, diaphoresis, and signs of orthostatic hypotension and shock.
  • Low cardiac output – Fatigue, weakness, dyspnea on exertion, lethargy, and lightheadedness.
  • Hemodynamic – Pulsation in the neck and abdomen, choking sensation, jaw pain, right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain, chest colds, and headache.
  • Heart rate related – Palpitations associated with arrhythmias

Studies have shown that patients with Pacemaker syndrome and/or with sick sinus syndrome are at higher risk of developing fatal complications that calls for the patients to be carefully monitored in the ICU. Complications include atrial fibrillation, thrombo-embolic events, and heart failure. https://www.ajconline.org/article/0002-9149(90)91379-K/pdf

Permanent Pacemaker After TAVR Increases Mortality, Readmission Risks

The insertion of a permanent pacemaker following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was associated with increased long-term morbidity and mortality, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Pacemaker syndrome consists of the cardiovascular signs and symptoms of heart failure and hypotension induced by right ventricular (RV) pacing.
The reported incidence of pacemaker syndrome likely approaches 20% in rate-modulated ventricular-based (VVIR) pacing

11.5% of patients found to have sick sinus syndrome

Out of a pacemaker clinic population of 182 patients, 21 (11·5%) were found to have sick sinus syndrome. Their ages ranged from 30 to 80 years and averaged 62.

A high incidence of cerebral embolization was observed, and the use of anticoagulant drugs, therefore, merits serious consideration.

Failure of inhibition of demand-type pacemakers occurred in two patients. Two patients who exhibited competition with fixed-rate pacemakers died. Two patients were treated with electrodes surgically implanted in the right atrium.

Sick Sinus Syndrome: Experience of a Cardiac Pacemaker Clinic

Mortality.-Six of the 21 patients (28-6%) died. Death occurred one to 19 months after implantation, and the average was 5-3 months. The cause of death was myocardial infarction in two patients, cerebrovascular accidents in two, uncontrollable ventricular arrhythmias in one, and acute hepatocellular necrosis attributed to two halothane anesthetics in one.

In rare cases, SSS may be associated with conditions such as:

  • Diphtheria (an infection that can damage the heart muscle)
  • Hemochromatosis (excess iron in the blood)
  • Muscular dystrophy (an inherited condition in which the body’s muscles are damaged and weak)
  • Amyloidosis (a condition in which a protein called amyloid is deposited in tissues or organs)

After implantation of a permanent pacemaker, patients may experience severe symptoms of dyspnea, palpitations, malaise, and syncope resulting from pacemaker syndrome.

Pacemaker Syndrome Complications

Studies have shown that patients with Pacemaker syndrome and/or with sick sinus syndrome are at higher risk of developing fatal complications that call for the patients to be carefully monitored in the ICU. Complications include atrial fibrillation, thromboembolic events, and heart failure.

How ironic the side effect of a pacemaker is atrial fibrillation, what it is used for. Thrombo-embolic events are blood clots, blood clots that break loose and block a vessel in the lung, brain, leg, gastrointestinal tract, or kidney. Thromboembolism is a significant cause of disease and death.

Here are the highlights of the story that we mentioned earlier in our article.

Officials said the $1.5 billion lost from the seven devices from 2005 through 2014 was a “conservative estimate.” Patients also paid $140 million in out-of-pocket costs for this care, the report noted.

The inspector general did not identify the manufacturers of the seven devices. Still, officials said they included implanted cardio defibrillators and a pacemaker that either had been recalled because of flaws or had “prematurely failed.”

David Lamir, an official in the inspector general’s Boston office, said the $1.5 billion figure represented a “drop in the bucket” of the true costs to Medicare from medical products that malfunction. He said device failures not only waste money, but also can expose patients to a “high risk of illness,” including needless surgeries.

The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General report is the first effort by the government to gauge the losses from faulty medical gear. This report is from By Fred Schulte and Christina Jewett on

The first time examining losses from medical gear? This shows the system’s pure insanity, which means the costs have been hidden from us until now. We are happy to see this information brought to light.

The standard attribution is:
Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

Lybrate – A website to find medical information gives you only these side effects:

Pacemaker: Treatment, Procedure, Cost, and Side Effects

This entire website only lists these side effects – It does not list all side effects

Are there any side effects?

Some of the side-effects associated with surgery to install a pacemaker are bleeding, bruising, infection at the site of the procedure, damaged blood vessels or nerves, and allergic reactions to anesthesia. In rare cases, a person may suffer from a collapsed lung or a punctured heart. However, these complications are rare. Remember, they say rare, and the medical definition of rare is 10% or less.

Why are they not listing all the side effects, we ask?

Where is the information on Pacemaker Syndrome and Sick Sinus Syndrome? Why do they lead you to believe there are barely any negatives to doing the procedure. That’s right. $$$

20% percent of patients with pacemakers, experience painful shocks during their last few weeks of life, because of this, the Heart Rhythm Society is able to give end-of-life preparations to patients needing information.

Permanent Pacemaker After TAVR Increases Mortality, Readmission Risks

The insertion of a permanent pacemaker following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was associated with increased long-term morbidity and mortality, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Pacemaker syndrome consists of the cardiovascular signs and symptoms of heart failure and hypotension induced by right ventricular (RV) pacing.
The reported incidence of pacemaker syndrome likely approaches 20% in rate modulated ventricular-based (VVIR) pacing

Sick Sinus Syndrome: Experience of a Cardiac Pacemaker Clinic

Mortality.-Six of the 21 patients (28-6%) died. The death occurred one to 19 months after implantation, and the average was 5-3 months. The cause of death was myocardial infarction in two patients, cerebrovascular accidents in two, uncontrollable ventricular arrhythmias in one, and acute hepatocellular necrosis attributed to two halothane anesthetics in one.

In rare cases, SSS may be associated with conditions such as:

  • Diphtheria (an infection that can damage the heart muscle)
  • Hemochromatosis (excess iron in the blood)
  • Muscular dystrophy (an inherited condition in which the body’s muscles are damaged and weak)
  • Amyloidosis (a condition in which a protein called amyloid is deposited in tissues or organs)

We cannot seem to find any science on how rare these conditions occur?

After implantation of a permanent pacemaker, patients may experience severe symptoms of dyspnea, palpitations, malaise, and syncope resulting from pacemaker syndrome.

What are the alternatives to the treatment?

Magnesium helps to stabilize the heart, and people in cardiac intensive care are sometimes given intravenous infusions of magnesium. Research has shown that fish oil helps to prevent dangerous heart arrhythmias. Vitamin C helps to prevent atrial fibrillation that can happen after a person undergoes coronary artery bypass grafting. N-acetyl cysteine also helps to reduce the occurrence of atrial fibrillation, which is a form of arrhythmia.

We will be creating an entire section on reversing heart disease soon. Until then, find a good functional medicine doctor who will find and cure the problem that you are having with your heart. The answer lies in what you eat, don’t eat, supplying the body with nutrients, and avoiding toxicity.

The first thing you must do is stop eating processed foods and start eating whole organic foods.  Remove toxicity and deficiency from the body, and you can reverse heart disease. We suggest until we complete our section, you buy Dr. Furman’s book, “Eat to Live.” They usually have it on the shelf at Whole Foods. Stop consuming aspartame and do what you need to do to get off toxic medications that might be causing your problem in the first place. Only eat good healthy fats such as coconut oil and avocados. Reduce all bad saturated fats and stop consuming sugar, including bad cabs, bread, pasta, potatoes, and the such. We will have much more information on reversing heart disease, but this information in itself is the main component of reversing it.

We did a prospective randomized trial in 225 consecutive patients

(142 women, 83 men; mean age 76 years) with the sick-sinus syndrome, randomized to atrial (n=110) or ventricular (n=115) pacing and followed for up to 5 years (mean 40 [SD 18] months). During follow-up, atrial fibrillation frequency was higher in the ventricular group, except at the first follow-up at three months. Thromboembolic events (a stroke or peripheral arterial embolus) occurred in 20 patients in the ventricular group and in 6 patients in the atrial group (p=0·0083). 25 patients died in the ventricular group compared with 21 in the atrial group (p=0·74).

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