Recent content by Margot

I'm very surprised you are being asked to wait for a valve replacement. I was actually in a similar situation: bicuspid aortic valve with increasing stenosis. I went to another cardiologist for other reasons. He gave me a stress test and said - whoa, it's time. The waiting created a 4.1...

Another member of our fellowship lives in Dunedin. She contacted me through this website because we had similar things happening: bicuspid aortic valve with stenosis. Mine was done almost 3 years ago and hers was 6 months later. She had some similar communications with New Zealand health...

I don't take Zyrtec, so that's not my trigger. I'm glad it's only happened twice - it's very disconcerting!

I have had auras and flashes also - in fact have experienced two occasions of complete gray-out in one eye. All of this is post AVR two and a half years ago. Everything else is fantastic but the visual migraines are odd. Thank God they don’t come with pain.