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On Monday, two weeks shy of my one year anniversary of my AVR; I got dizzy and ended up in the hospital for a day and half. It started a few days earlier when I noticed that I had a sore throat. By Monday I finally got in to see my GP to get some medicine. By then my throat looked like a war...

Yesterday was a very long day for me but it ended up being a great day, I have been released, by my cardiologist back to full firefighting duties. For those who have missed my occasional posts, June 1st I passed out at the eye doctors, 90 hours later I was in surgery having my bicuspid valve...

I am now four months post op. I am working out about an hour of cardio exercise four to five times a week and feeling pretty good over all. Now last Friday my cardio wanted me to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours to watch my heart rate. He was thinking that my resting heart rate was too high...

I am currently in Cardiac rehab and I use a heart rate monitor so that heart rate does not go too high. I have a mechanical valve. But lately when I put one on, I get a bad or low reading. Most of the time, I get readings about half of the actual rate. I have tried a Polar and a Timex exercise...