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Hello all, It has been a long time since I've been on this site. I celebrated my fourth anniversary yesterday. It is always a mixed time for me (I have had very frequent migraines since my surgery), but this time is especially so because my lovely Mum passed away two months ago (at 54), and...

Someone on here told me I would probably feel much better on my 2nd anniversary than my 1st, and I think they were right! Celebrating two years with piggy today. Still getting migraines (since surgery) which can be really hard to deal with BUT otherwise compared with this time last year, I am...

Wow, I made it. Never has a year gone by so quickly and at times so agonisingly slowly. I remember (it seemed like all of a sudden, and basically, it was) in October 2009 I could no longer breathe properly when I walked. Stairs would literally take a whole hour to recover from climbing...

Hi there, To all of you with tissue valves, I have been really interested and surprised reading through this site to find a few younger men who have had bovine or porcine valve replacements. I have a porcine valve and my reasons for choosing a tissue valve were twofold: the main one was I...

Hi there, To all of you with tissue valves, I have been really interested reading through this site and finding a lot of younger men who had bovine or porcine valve replacements. My reasons for choosing a tissue valve were twofold: the main one was I wanted to be able to have children in the...

Hi, I'm just going to post an email I sent to my cardiologist today. I'm sure he will answer my question but I'm interested to hear your thoughts. Can you please tell me, I have been confused about this for many months now, do I still have a heart condition / heart disease? I assume what I...

I just wanted to know how you were / are feeling 9 months after surgery... It has been this long for me and I have come such a long way and in many ways feel very good (definitely much better than before), but I feel so sad now, an underlying sadness all the time that has been there since...