GREAT first step - I appreciate you admitting to the "afraid to go to sleep at night" because it's very real - and you may lie there and listen to your heart wondering what it is doing! Totally normal - well for some of us! You will catch a few people posting they don't have these fears but for...
Everyone has given you great advice and I came into your post because I will be exactly one year from AVR repair when you go in.... I will be thinking of you and sending you lots of positive wishes. The repair would be ideal and FANTASTIC but it won't be so bad if you have to get a new valve...
Approaching 1 year from my AVR and aneurysm repair and I can NOW say I had symptoms that I just lived with for about 7 years. Numbers are just numbers - do listen to your body!
Thanks all for sharing - and definitely there is depression, anxiety or trauma - at different levels and handled differently by everyone - they gave me anti anxiety drugs in the hospital..... since then i had more depression (week 7 particularly - I was ready for the other weeks but that one got...
I did the same thing! accomodated to where I was - believe me "tired" is a symptom - or as the anesthesiologist said right as I was getting wheeled into the OR this summer - while your "numbers" may have been average/okay and the medicines had the bp down to a "normal " range your poor heart...
wow - that story sounds all too familiar although my cardio argued for the transfusion and we did it
my red count is still low and it does hold your breathing back
I echo everyone everyone above you MUST do your breathingt and walking
my coumadin management is not an issue now - so don't...
I am with you -was in same piosition - even called off the surgery 5 years ago
please listen to BOTH the experts/the numbers - but also listen to your body........ even in small ways it will tell you
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for example in the 6 months prior to my valve replacment - I was sick twice - checked for...
yes - I have now heart this twice - don't now the linkage but your are the 2nd person (plus Malibu) that I have heard have gallbladder and heart surgery in same year - wierd
lol - the docs and surgeons all say you won't hear it!! hahahahahaha
i hear mine at night, in the bathroom, when really quiet - etc
i also have the darn muscle and back pain