Recent content by coolcoop36

haha like a boss. Yeah I am not looking forward to getting cut open, but more specifically the anesthesia again. But maybe I can live with my tiny little protruding wires who knows!

Yeah the whole sudden death thing freaks me out! I am a young guy but yikes sometimes its scary! Would you think thats a pretty common occurrence with heart defects from birth?.

Yeah the whole sudden death thing freaks me out! I am a young guy but yikes sometimes its scary! Would you think thats a pretty common occurrence with heart defects from birth?

YEah I am a really skinny guy so that seems to be my issue. Now they have been poking out for months, just ever so slightly, just a bump really. I am nervous about infection, I mean I would know if i had an infection i would assume? I am just getting paranoid about it now all of a sudden, I am...

Wait, so help me out here, I have tetralogy of fallot, you're saying that congenital heart defects don't have much to do with heart attack risk? I thought there was increased risk, I could be wrong, I am not as well informed as some older fellows here I bet.

Hi, I'm a 22 year old male, have tetralogy of fallot, and have had surgery once when I was a baby. Now I had surgery 2 years ago to give me a pulmonary valve instead of the shunt I had. Everything went well. Now I am a very skinny guy, so I noticed on my chest there were some bumps where you...

So I have TOF and I have received a pulmonary valve last summer. But that is unrelated, my question is about how sleep effects everyones heart rates. I notice that when I do not sleep, or get enough sleep my heartbeat becomes a lot more noticeable, im not sure if its irregular, but not so...

Just an update--It will be 1 year this August. I have been feeling great! It is nice to live without the stress of an arrythmia. My chest scar is healing, not as nice as I would hope but I was a re-op so I didnt expect it to be perfect. But overall I am pretty much back to my normal self, most...

Greetings, I am a 20 year old male who was born with Tetrology of Fallot. I had a repair done when i was 4 to fix the defect and 17 days ago I had my Pulmonary Valve repaired. Now I am writing this to try and grasp if this is normal or not. I had surgery, got out of the hospital in 3 days, got...