Marguerite53
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Hello all!
Well, it's one year to the day since my surgery. I had my first annual echo last week and my first annual check-up with the cardio this afternoon. My echo was fine. I got so busy talking with her about blood pressure meds that I forgot to get a copy of the echo. It's weird. I don't even care!!! If it's good, I just don't care how good....just that it IS good!! A different me, I think!!
We are going to double my dose of Diovan since the BP is hovering in the 120/75 to 140/80's and she would like it lower.....me too. The one comment she made about my heart was that since it had worked so hard all those years to compensate for the bicuspid valve, there is some nominal thickening (I knew this). What we don't want to have happen is to allow it to work hard now and trend toward increased thickening. Duh. (well, I guess those echo numbers would be interesting......)
As far as getting off the beta blocker (which I am anxious to do since it has given me a low grade headache now) we (cardio's okay) did try that last weekend. 3 days off the Toprol XL and I had a very scary shock-like feeling run through me and then my heart felt like it was being squeezed. Ten minutes later it happened again. These sensations were only a second or so long. Not too deep. Just scary. I went home and started up the Toprol again and there were no more. She wonders if that is what a PVC feels like now that my heart is fixed. I wondered if it was a heart attack!! She quizzed me and said no. no heart attack! Wonder if any of you have had feelings like that at some time. It sure wasn't like the PVC's that I'm familiar with! I still want to go off the Toprol, but I'm going to wean myself rather slowly from it!
Anyway, besides all the little nuisance particulars, the concensus was that I do not need to see her for a year....and I do not need to have an echo for 2 years. Sounds GRRREAAAT to me!!
So thank you all for being my constant companions through all of this. I honestly feel like a weight has been lifted. There is something about these anniversaries!! A good time to reflect, a good time to let go, a good time to rejoice. I'm so glad that I have all of you there with me, knowing what it's all about!!
Marguerite
Well, it's one year to the day since my surgery. I had my first annual echo last week and my first annual check-up with the cardio this afternoon. My echo was fine. I got so busy talking with her about blood pressure meds that I forgot to get a copy of the echo. It's weird. I don't even care!!! If it's good, I just don't care how good....just that it IS good!! A different me, I think!!
We are going to double my dose of Diovan since the BP is hovering in the 120/75 to 140/80's and she would like it lower.....me too. The one comment she made about my heart was that since it had worked so hard all those years to compensate for the bicuspid valve, there is some nominal thickening (I knew this). What we don't want to have happen is to allow it to work hard now and trend toward increased thickening. Duh. (well, I guess those echo numbers would be interesting......)
As far as getting off the beta blocker (which I am anxious to do since it has given me a low grade headache now) we (cardio's okay) did try that last weekend. 3 days off the Toprol XL and I had a very scary shock-like feeling run through me and then my heart felt like it was being squeezed. Ten minutes later it happened again. These sensations were only a second or so long. Not too deep. Just scary. I went home and started up the Toprol again and there were no more. She wonders if that is what a PVC feels like now that my heart is fixed. I wondered if it was a heart attack!! She quizzed me and said no. no heart attack! Wonder if any of you have had feelings like that at some time. It sure wasn't like the PVC's that I'm familiar with! I still want to go off the Toprol, but I'm going to wean myself rather slowly from it!
Anyway, besides all the little nuisance particulars, the concensus was that I do not need to see her for a year....and I do not need to have an echo for 2 years. Sounds GRRREAAAT to me!!
So thank you all for being my constant companions through all of this. I honestly feel like a weight has been lifted. There is something about these anniversaries!! A good time to reflect, a good time to let go, a good time to rejoice. I'm so glad that I have all of you there with me, knowing what it's all about!!
Marguerite
