Gail in Ca

Before my heart surgeries, I had an inguinal hernia repaired. The general surgeon gave me some kind of nerve block and then Valium to...

I’ve been in afib since 2014. I don’t have a pacemaker and my cardiologist just said I would live my life in afib after the cardio...

I went into a-fib 3 yrs after my 3rd surgery. I heard and felt my heart beating irregularly, rarely fast. I had a cardio version and...

I ended up with a very caring therapist that was provided for free to caregivers of people in hospice. My Mom was 99 and finally...

This would be laughable if it wasn’t happening now. I think doctors are somehow encouraged to go to the psychiatric side of medicine no...

I’m sorry you are going through this. I don’t have any experience in this, but it brought to mind my childhood friend who, at 13, had...

I have gotten the CT results/summary. It mentions porcelain ascending aorta, severe atherosclerosis of descending aorta, among other...

Yes, my questions and concerns are the same. I just had the CT w contrast a couple of days ago of the chest, abdomen and pelvis. Haven’t...

I’ve thought of seeing Dr Starnes or driving back to see the Stanford doctor my cardiologist said he would send me to if I still lived...

Surgeon said I was very high risk for something to go wrong during a 4th surgery, like a stroke. He just said if he were me he would do...

I, like most open heart redo patients, expected to be able to have a 4th surgery if my mitral repair from the 3rd failed. I’ve recently...

May you have a peaceful wake up from surgery and a great recovery!

A few members have had 3 surgeries, but when I started a 4th surgery thread, no one responded that had 4.

My surgeon said it took 3 hours to cut through the scar tissue from my previous surgeries. I did fine, though. I looked into 2nd...

Since I’ve had 3 surgeries I’d have to say each one is different, and the complications and recovery is also different. The top...