Recent content by Amy

Does anyone know anything about continuous double heartbeats? Last night I had them for over an hour. Today it’s back; it’s been going on for hours; even when I manage, briefly, to get a ‘normal’ rhythm back (by getting up and walking a bit, or drinking water, or taking a slow deep breath) I...

Hey @Protimenow - I just found your thread here after having double heartbeats for the last hour and trying to quickly research what they are, what they mean, what I can do. I’ve been jumping around, eating magnesium, drinking water and hoping they go away. How have you been?? Gosh, you had a...

Clearly I’m not spending enough time on this forum to not even know you can be defibrillated while conscious. Wow!

I had a big shot senior surgeon who was too busy and important to talk to me for even a minute or two about how the surgery had gone. After days of insisting, however, on talking to someone who’d been there, finally the resident who opened and closed came to talk to me. He told me I’d had a...

Oh how I wish my pre-op cardiac cath had been ‘interesting’. An Asian woman doctor at CC did mine, I’ve long blocked her name out; I was so out of it and I don’t remember feeling anything or reacting to anything, but the doctor afterwards said I was very anxious and difficult, and that I...

So that makes a total of how many machines you have now? Ha ha - aren’t you the one with like six or eight of them? ; ) Sigh. Men and their machines.

I’ve been using 23 gauge accu-chek safe-t pro plus lancets; also actually, embarrassingly, forgot the depth was adjustable; I usually use some pressure to really push, and get a little bruise sometimes. They come out to about 25 cents each, but that’s if I get a good deal. So with these - -...

Pushups and flinging your arm around like a helicopter?! Now I won’t feel silly anymore about breaking out into some jumping jacks.

I was started on 25 mg of metoprolol post-op and it was wayyyy too much, it was awful being so out of it/half asleep/feeling like a huge fat person was sitting on me. I think I ended up taking a half pill, then a quarter, so just 6.25 mg, for months. When I decided to come off of it, i thought I...

Ooooh, they’re *golden*.

This is really good advice. My husband gave it to me and it worked twice to get a warfarin prescription, after other doctors refused, since I’m self-managing INR and won’t go to their Coumadin clinics. I need a good cardiologist too. Lately I feel like all doctors (I’ve seen six in the last...

I’m 2 years post-op and have had daily constant arthritis-like pains for 4 months, in bones of the pelvis, (front & back) arms, hands, feet, toes, hips... They seem to be increasing, and are especially triggered by certain foods, like cheese or sugar. I’m only 42, and was perfectly healthy...

I was also put on the tartrate post-op without explanation or warning - something like 25 mg 2x/day, which was way too much - I had this same experience: Ended up finding that 12.5 mg once a day was better; then went down to just a quarter pill a day for months, so 6.25 mg.... And I had to...

This sounds scary: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25501289/ I’ve had constant lower abdominal pain for three months now, and am trying to find a potential cause. It’s two years post op, and I’ve been on 81 mg aspirin a day with warfarin. Has anyone else had chronic pain develop in your lower...

Something I wish I’d done post-op (I guess I had too much else on my mind) was to have a big ass candy dish on my hospital table, full of all the best candy, so the nurses would be more likely to come visit and check on me more often. I know it’s frustrating and sad. Are you at the Cleveland...