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  1. Pete81

    What is a good watch/ wearable to measure heart rate and heart rate variability?

    Can really recommend ‘Polar’. Have had my Vantage M for four years now. Real sports watch. Does heart rate and variability on the wrist, activity tracker and much more connects to great app tracking activity, progress and recovery. also had workout suggestions and great Blog.
  2. Pete81

    How did you discover your valve issue?

    Unfortunate enough I hope that in your case they found out a bit quicker you had IE on you BAV but because you said ‘similar’ I take it took a while for you too. Surgery went all good? What INR target was set for you for your On-X?
  3. Pete81

    How did you discover your valve issue?

    Hi Deepak, I had my surgery at Papworth hospital which has now moved to Cambridge. Mr Large was my surgeon. Given my complex situation of active endocarditis at the time I was very happy to have such an experienced surgeon.
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    How did you discover your valve issue?

    I was in the UK at the time and indeed most healthcare professionals follow ‘NICE’ guidelines which states antibiotic prophylaxis is not recommended. Fortunately I had a fantastic Australian consultant cardiologist in Addenbrooke’s who gave me a prescription for whenever as she called it ‘people...
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    How did you discover your valve issue?

    5 years ago, just 4 weeks after our first was born, happy times became troubled times. After a week of feeling incredibly tired, I experienced fever of 41 oC for a weekend. Terrible, felt I was dying. Fever dropped but kept feeling really ill for weeks. Had low grade fever, nightsweats to the...
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    Royal Paworth

    I was in the old hospital in Papworth village 5 years ago for an emergency procedure. My valve started to have bits break of causing embolisms throughout the body. Even then I got postponed, was supposed to have mine in the morning but then a heart-lung transplant came in between. So not an ICU...
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    54 years..........but who's counting!

    Wauw! Congratulations and thanks for being an inspiration! I don’t know how it was for you back then at 31 but I took it pretty hard at 35. Badly In need for some perspective and surgeons and doctors can simply not give that the way you do by sharing this with us. Good stuff, thanks!
  8. Pete81

    Airsoft/paintball

    I have about a dozen 😅 they all look the same like this. Right in the centre you can actually spot a couple of tiny vessels sprung but you are right, the look atypical for a bruise. Other Interesting fact, I saw a couple of the others’ bruises not on any Coumadin and some of them are a lot worse...
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    Airsoft/paintball

    Went playing airsoft yesterday. Fantastic activity, running, crawling and diving whilst dodging bullets. Awesome, can highly recommend it. Took a couple of hits on the forearms and legs, but nothing to bad on an INR of 2.6 (when I got home after the pubcrawl 😎).
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    Airsoft/paintball

    There were times I was super careful indeed, not exceeding 2 a day. Fortunately, I now know things aren’t as bad and I regularly enjoy my liquor again. To quote my surgeon when I asked him about life on warfarin; “life is for the living”.
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    Airsoft/paintball

    Thanks all, for sharing thoughts and experiences, I’ll make sure to post footage of the best of bruises should I catch a couple of nice ones. 😀
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    Airsoft/paintball

    Have a bachelor party coming up and idea is to go airsoft-gaming. That’s quite common here in the Netherlands, followed by BBQ and pub crawl. For those who haven’t heard of airsoft; it is like paintball with smaller pellets shooting from replica rifles. Looking forward to it but have no idea...
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    Hi everyone from England

    Hi Paul, got my mechanical AVR at the old clinic in Papworth whilst they were building the new one in Cambridge. You’re in good hands there at Papworth. Mr. Stephen Large was my surgeon at the time. There were a couple of complications afterwards but the valve itself is doing really well after...
  14. Pete81

    Did you have a follow-up echo 4-6 weeks post-op?

    Hi Amy, I got the impression that after surgery there’s a switch of tracks. First I had a stress-ecg 6 weeks after surgery which was still part of surgical discharge and a prerequisite for the commencement of the in clinic cardiac rehabilitation program, all under surgeons supervision and in...
  15. Pete81

    Age of Mechanical Valves

    Sorry, what I meant was ofcourse the fact that a rigid thing like a prosthetic valve and the changing shape of a growing heart 🙃
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