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hello when I had my 3rd open heart surgery for a mechanical aortic valve replacement I was shocked when I woke up with another scar in my upper hip just on the side of the bikini line !! I didn't get the answer when I asked the surgeon but they said they opened it just incase they needed it and...

hello , if any one had read my past posts I'm 30 years old women with a CHD and 3 open heart surgery last one I had my mechanical valve on April 2014 when I was 24 and ever since I was feeling much pain and so many side effects that I haven't exprienced my whole life been going from doctor to...

i want to know if any women in here can share her experiment if she has a mechanical valve and been pregnant is it even possible or there is no one who done that as it is too risky ?? I'm on On-x have one child pre the mechanical valve and now feels like i wanna have another and i regret it so...

hello i made an instgram gathering for all of us who suffer from a chd to add here is the account: valvereplacment thanks.

hello i want to know is anybody feeling worst after surgery than before the surgery ? i mean since i had my last 3rd open heart surgery of a mechanical valve i have this sudden episodes of severe muscle pain it could be anywhere ( back, hand, arms ) anywhere you name it i also sometimes have...

well i had my operation almost 2 years ago ( by April it will be 2 years ) I'm 26 years old had AVR ONX-19 MM ., that was my 3rd OHS i feel like i solved a problem and get over with its symptoms just to have a whole new list of syptoms i feel very upset cause i feel sometimes like i just wanna...

Hello i had a mechanical On-x it's been 11 months since the operation ( almost a year ) Feelin' good and recently started working out, and after pregnancy ( i have a 1 and 4months years old baby ) for sure my belly is not as tight as before so i've ordered an abs belt which works by advanced...

hello, i had my 3rd OHS 7 months ago and I'm 24 years old female which choose ON-X valve .. when i went through the surgery i wasn't the sickest patient and i was healthy enough but i had some symptoms and i had a small baby which i'd preferred to get my surgery over with before his old and...

I'vee been feeling for the last Month now specially more than before a weird feeling in my head it's feels light headed and sometimes strange kinda feeling but it feels bad and i feel like it could lead to passing out or dropping dead but nothing happened so far just the light headed with the...

What's your target INR IS IT 2.0 - 3.0 OR IS IT 2.5-3.5 AND why it differs from one person to another ?

Had ON-X Valve I'm 24 female it's been 1 month and 21 days on my surgery since i've been back home i've felt dizziness and light headed for maybe 5 times like if I'm going to pass out but i don't , today i've felt the same but what scared me that i've had doubled vision and feeling numbness in...

Now that i have flight back home and back to my angel 5 and half months old baby, I'm just so tempted to carry him but the doctor told me not to, all i can do is have him in my lap, and sometimes he cries and want me to carry him but i can't, they told me not to until 3 months passes over, do...

so It's been 1 months and half on my surgery and it was time to go home, My INR STILL isn't stable and not in range, In my home country we are 7 hours ahead ( i was in celevland cline for the heart replacement surgery ) In America i used to take the warfarin everyday at 5 PM, now that I'm home...

almost a month since my 3rd OHS and i still can't feel the area of my scar and what's surround it , as well as the groin in my upper right thigh i can't feel the upper part of my thighs as well where the scar and groin is, are all of you numb or is it just me???

any one who has been on warfarin and went through any kind of surgery?? did they blood because this is a risk that comes a long with the warfarin , im considering having a rhinoplasty ( nose job ) in the near future but not that I'm on the warfarin i know there is a risk of bleeding it should...

hello I'm 12 days post surgery today, just discharged of the hospital and i was shocked of all the medications they've given to me most of them are for one month until my next appointment with the Dr. .. I'm only 24 and I'm feeling little upset for having to take all the medications I'm also...

after having my open heart surgery and a very long middle of the chest scar after 3 days of the surgery i've noticed a scar on the right side of my upper thigh !!! the doctor didn't mention that for me before or after and i've already had 2 open heart surgeries before and no now opened or...

OK here I'm a weak post operation, still in the hospital, still in paiiiin and tiered the nurses told me i may be in all this pain because I'm young and younger people tend to feel the pain more than in the elder people … it's been a very hard weak for me but since I'm done with the operation...

I just wanna know is it really that noisy ? and does it feel like the palpitation ?? because i can't stand the feeling of the palp

Ok well , here I am in the U.S .. when my doctor first saw me thought i don't need a valve replacement yet, but when took a look into my echo they changed their minds, it's easier for me to do it now as well because my child is still too young to understand so it would be easier for me and him...