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I feel better than I did a month ago, but still having issues that prevent me from saying I feel way better. I was noticing a lot of palpitations and loud thumping in my chest, preventing me from sleeping and still having a lot of sweating at night and waking up gasping for breath. I saw my...

Hello everyone. I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season! Well it has been 2 months now and I have to say it has been like a roller coaster for me. Some days I felt good, really good, and then others reallly bad. Since coming out of the hospital I have gotten sick with 2 stomach flus, and...

This week I have been sick with what I thought was the stomach flu. The first half of the week, Mon-Wed., I had vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, no appetite. Then Thurs and today I am hungry but after 2 bites of food I feel sick with nausea again. Before eating, I feel fine, but hungry. No more...

i have been on coumadin for over 6 yrs. it took me about 6 months to get to the therapeutic range my then dr wanted me to be on, which was 2.0. my surgeon wants me to be 2.0-2.2. in the last few weeks i have been 2.3, then they fiddled with my dosage, then 1.5, fiddled, then 2.5, fiddled. i test...

first time thought it was just i got up too fast from the sofa. second time, just knew it was that i had to go to dr and was fatigued from that. third time, at lunch today, sitting quietly drinking a water with lemon, i realized this just aint right! i am getting horrible double vision, it is...

Hello everyone! So sorry I have not posted before now. It has been a whirlwind of activity around here. My AVR surgery was Oct 22. I spent 12 days in the hospital. During the surgery I got a pneumothorax (collapsed lung). I woke up in ICU with a horrible pain in my right breast, the chest tube...

So after all this is over, do you think that I will be on new meds when I get home from the hospital? I am already on Coumadin so that wont count. I was just wondering also about rejection of the mechanical valve. Is that a possibility also? :) Debbi

I am feeling so much better having spent time with the anesthesiologist, Cardiac nurse and cardiac rehab people. They answered so many questions and were so nice about it all. A man from Mended Hearts was there, he had OHS 17 yrs ago. He helped with some of my fears also. They had us watch a...

Hello all! Well I found out that my OHS is going to be next Thursday Oct 22 at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati at 7:30 am. I had an angiogram yesterday and they also found I have a blocked right carotid artery, so they will have to fix that also. I am very nervous, stressed, anxious, etc etc. I...

I was a member here many years ago. I had so much going on and I just didnt stay up on posting. To make a long story as short as I can, I have a 5.0 ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm with a leaky Bicupsid Aortic Valve. I have known about these disorders since 2002(!) and have had sooo many...