Hi Andy! I know we all have our own journeys and excellent reasons for our decisions regarding our individual paths...
But as a very active 32 year old who had a mechanical valve placed last year, I can tell ya WARFARIN isn’t that big of a deal. Sure I watch my step a bit more and am a good...
UPDATE: CT Scan came back totally normal - I don't know if that totally rules out anything from my valve being involved? Hoping my cardiologist calls back tomorrow with his input.
Hey RAS, thank you so much for this. I just had my CT today. Called my cardiologist afterwards and asked him to move my echo up. Surprisingly i haven't had one since my surgery in November. I'm going to push for the echo's and a TEE if i can. Even if it's not a life threatening situation, the...
Hey! Thanks glad you found this! I'll have my CT scan today at noon and hopefully have results by tomorrow. From what I've seen above, aspirin might be a good thing to add to my regime. I'm going to call my cardiologist today and see what they think. I remember right after surgery my surgeon...
Hi! This might be a long shot but hoping maybe someone else has had experience with whatever is going on with me lately.
I had my Mechanical Valve Replacement in Nov 2019. In Feb 2020, while I was sick with the flu, i started getting these weird zig zags in my vision and occasionally my vision...
Hello everyone!
I just completed my second open heart surgery last week. My first surgery was a valve repair, this surgery was an aortic valve replacement (mechanical).
One thing I can’t seem to get out of my head was that after the surgery, the surgeon told my mom everything went well but that...
Thank you so much for writing all this! I'm going to start looking the ones you listed up and see what they're all about. I'm a bit OCD so I'm thinking i may try to get two different ones and work with averages.