Zoltania

That sounds about like the location of my numb spot, which extends from my right-side incision up a couple of inches on the underside of...

Warfarin questions aside, this must be a frightening time for you, Eva. Wishing you peace and good results.

My surgeon said the heart is "irritable" after surgery, so it can take months for the HR to come down. That was my experience too.

My mitral valve surgery was between the ribs, though not robotic. The incision was just under five inches long, in the crease under my...

Is the visual distortion that bad for you? It only covers part of my field of vision, starting out small and then growing larger and...

Optical migraines (the painless kind, aura only) seem common on this board: Migraine aura anyone? I started getting these many years...

Hi all - Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my BAV / AA surgery. I haven't been posting much the past few months because my...

The AHA guidelines recommend surgery to replace the aortic valve for patients with symptoms and severe aortic regurgitation, and...

Welcome to the forum. Open heart surgical valve replacement has the best long term outcomes. Surgeons and their teams are very...

What a terrible shock. No one is ever ready to lose a parent, and having it be unexpected is even harder. My sympathies to you and yours.

Hi I can only imagine what you're going through. I wrote this post here some time back, basically as a way of saying "it'll be fine"...

When my central line was being removed, the nurse told me to hum, and that seemed to help. My chest tube and drain tube didn't hurt too...

Techniques from mindfulness meditation can help with this. What I've learned is that thoughts are just passing things and I can choose...

Just an update for those of you who may be reading this later. The being cold all the time has passed and the night sweats seem to be...

It may be hard to believe now, but you will pass through this experience and come out the other side, and eventually you will be looking...