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Most people aren\u2019t thinking about heart conditions and pacemakers before their thirties, but actress Julie Bowen recently revealed the scary heart condition that left her feeling like she was \u201cgonna die\u201d when she was 29 years old. The 55-year-old actress was speaking to Michael Rosenbaum on his podcast, \u201cInside of You with Michael Rosenbaum<\/a>\u201d when she revealed the sudden diagnosis. The actress currently lives with what is known as Sick sinus syndrome, a condition that leads to irregular heartbeats and a dangerously low heartrate.<\/p>\n

Growing up, however, Bowen hadn\u2019t seemed like the sort of person who would suffer from a heart condition. She had been a runner throughout high school and had run competitively for years, knowing that her heart rate was low but never thinking about it. It wasn\u2019t until her sister, Annie Luetkemeyer, who was a med student, checked her heart rate that there became a real concern. \u201cWe were on vacation, and she was like, \u2018I want to listen to this. And she listened to my heart, and she was like, \u2018That is not what they’ve been telling you. And it’s not runner’s heart or whatever. \u2026 You need to go to a cardiologist immediately,\u2019\u201d Bowen recalled.<\/p>\n

Despite the warning, Bowen didn\u2019t want to take the concerns seriously. But her sister did. \u201cShe told me, and she wouldn\u2019t let it go. I was like, I\u2019m fine. She would not let it go.\u201d A month later, after she shot the pilot episode for the TV show \u201cEd,\u201d things took a drastic turn. \u201c”I shot the pilot of \u2018Ed\u2019 and immediately had to go get a pacemaker afterwards,\u201d she said. It was a sobering moment for Bowen. \u201c[I thought] \u2018My life is over. This is so weird. I’m gonna die.’ I don’t know what I thought it was because I was 29,\u201d she said. Had she not received the pacemaker, Bowen was at risk for passing out. \u201cThere was a vague feeling \u2026 whenever I was relaxed, really relaxed, I’d be, like, watching TV or [a] movie. It felt like I’d been holding my breath for a while, that feeling of, like, lightheadedness,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they said, ‘You’re gonna be driving a car, and you’re gonna pass out, and you’re gonna kill somebody.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowen revealed that prior to her pacemaker, her resting heart rate had been in the 30s. Her pacemaker does not let it get any lower than 45. Now that she has the pacemaker, it has become such a part of her life that she hardly notices it until it\u2019s time for a new battery, which she\u2019s had to do about three times. \u201cI forget about it all the time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people aren\u2019t thinking about heart conditions and pacemakers before their thirties, but actress Julie Bowen recently revealed the scary heart condition that left her feeling like she was \u201cgonna die\u201d when she was 29 years old. 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