Recent content by robojerry

I would also very much like to know the answer to this. I've heard that if you're offered the flu jab every year (in the UK) then that is a good indication that you're high risk. I am, but at the same time I feel like my heart issue has been fixed and to certainly doesn't effect my day to day...

Hi everyone, Hope you're all well or well on your way to getting there! I've not posted on here for a long time but I know that over the past decade or so this place has been of great comfort and a font of information regarding all things valvey, and is always my first port of call if I have any...

I'm in the UK so its different here, free health care and all that so why the hell not? Seven years post-op and I've been every December since then with no change. In fact I had an appointment just last week and they mentioned then that an echo is only necessary every five years whilst things...

Mechanical (St. Jude), and I just take warfarin with a fairly stable INR.

Hi everyone, I've not posted for a while, I've been getting on with life and generally not been worrying about my heart! Its coming up to the seven-year anniversary of my avr. I went for my annual check-up on Thursday having had an echo in August, the doctor had a listen as usual, looked at...

Hi Ruby, I've been a vegan since I was about 15, and had my aortic valve replaced when I was 23 (I'm now 28). Throughout, all of my cardios and GPs have never had a problem with it and most have said its a good option. As for the Vitamin K, so long as you are maintaining a balanced diet you...

I saw this elsewhere and would LOVE to do it. For some reason my wife and I have got in the habit of, whenever we go somewhere on holiday, we climb the highest "thing" or at least a tall building. Eiffel Tower, the TV Tower in Berlin, etc. The closest I've got to this kind of thing is climbing...

Christ, you've been through a lot. Just wanted to say "hi" from a fellow uk-user and wish you the best of luck

Hi fellow valvers, I had an avr almost five years ago now, at the age of 23. I've been experiencing spells of dizziness, or more precisely, feeling "off-balance" on and off for a few months, so I went to see the doctor last week. She listened to my chest, took my bp and everything was/sounded...

Hi Alex, Sorry to hear that you may have to have surgery. I was around your age when I had to have my aortic valve replaced (with a St. Jude's mechanical one) due to a congenital defect. This was around four years ago (I'm 27 now) and at that time I remember feeling excited about the upcoming...

Thanks for the kind responses. I think one of the problems is that there is too much misinformation out there. At least I hope it is misinformation; I spoke to a cardiac nurse last year, at a time when I was having a lot of anxiety about what the future may hold as a young adult with a...

Hi fellow valvers, I've not been on the site for a while, my last (and only) post was regarding life expectancy in young adults post avr. Since then I've continued to worry about those kind of things on-and-off, but also forgotten about them, been on holiday, worked, gone out having fun...

Hi everyone, thaks for your kind replies. I guess this is something that everyboby worries about, I just seem to be going through a prolonged stage of worrying about it at the moment. I keep getting palpitations, so that doesn't help. My doctor says that they are nothing to worry about, but the...

Hi fellow valvers, When I first had my aortic valve replaced with a St Jude mechanical valve three years ago I didn't really think about the "long term". I was 23 at the time and kind of breezed though the operation and the recovery, maybe ignoring the seriousness of it all. About six months...