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Call your doctor if you experience any of these:
- Redness, swelling, or drainage around the wound
- A wound that separates or isn’t healing
- A fever over 101 degrees F
- Joint stiffness, pain, or weakness in your arm
- Fainting, or feeling light-headed, or dizzy
- Very fast or slow heartbeat
- Swelling in your hands or ankles
- Constantly feeling tired
- Hiccups that won’t go away
- Chest pain, or a kicking sensation in your chest
- Twitching muscles in your chest or abdomen
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Call your doctor if you have any of these signs or symptoms after pacemaker surgery:
- recurrence of symptoms you had before your pacemaker implant
- swollen ankles
- redness or drainage at the incision
- fever
- swelling and warmth at incision site
- fainting, dizziness
- chest pain
- shortness of breath
- prolonged weakness or fatigue
- excessive hiccupping
- muscle twitching
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Notify your physician if you experience any of the following symptoms after a pacemaker insertion procedure:
- fever and/or chills
- increased pain, redness, swelling, or bleeding or other drainage from the insertion site
- chest pain/pressure, nausea and/or vomiting, profuse sweating, dizziness and/or fainting
- palpitations
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