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10 years with a mechanical St.Judes "clicker" - heart function normal, ventricle size reduced to normal a few month post surgery, very active ==> I lead a normal life :) allow me to share a few thoughts 1. I exercise regularly, always with a Polar HR monitor 2. Doing a fair bit of high...

dear co-valvers today a year ago i was wheeled out of the theatre with a brand new st judes aortic valve clicking and ticking in me. Want to share some observations with all of you: * luckily been a text-book case all the way through, left ventricle size back to normal after 3 month * went...

dear co-valvers an update on how things have developed: first and foremost - especially to those who are in the waiting room - I'm very lucky: things thus far went very smooth ==> I'm back to the life pre-sugery. I work full time, travel on business (sometimes to quite exotic places), play...

dear fellow valvers I'm trying to enlarge the 'what-do-valvers-do' exercise-data collection on this forum. Currently slightly over 4 month post surgery with a SJM AVR at the age of 40. HRmax were given to me by my cardio ,essentially following the 220-age formula. @3.5 weeks: treadmill and...

After upgrading to a 'fully qualified' member of this e-VALVING society, please allow me to share some views/observations with all of you: * 10 days post-op, 25 mm SJM, done by 'Grand Master S', Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore *recovery: slowly, but steadily. Living up to the general mantra...

im at the upper end of normal limits of all cholesterol measurements (total, LDL, HDL, ratios), however my cardio insists that I take cholesterol lowering durgs in order to slow down calcification of the valve. Since surgery is anyway on the agenda within the coming 6 month (mainly because the...

im sure not the only one who had this thought: i have a bicuspid valve (at least according to the echo), so i was just wondering whether this is a spontaneous natural error, or something I am carrying in my genes, hence something i might eventually pass on to kids? i have been doing some...

if OHR is such a mechanical strain on the sternum, rib cage, lungs, etc, why not do some yoga, extensive stretching (or whatever) PRE surgery in order to prepare the body a little bit for the incoming strain? I imagine that could reduce the strain, soreness post-op??? Furthermore, the yoga...

dear all in addition to the coumadin (for the mechs) i was always of the (naive??) assumption that within a few weeks post-op there shouldnt be any other medication left, provided that all other things are well. Hence i am surprised to read that most people are on some sort of cocktail of...

went to see my regular cardio today (whom i actually regard as quite diligent and good), diagnosis unchanged, however all of sudden he said AVR is not that urgent anymore, come back in 2 month we do another echo and a radionucleide stress test and then we see... so much about consistency...

i am looking for some sort of a non-medical pre-surg routine check list, ie what do i need to do before surgery? *dentist *other med checks *play around of golf ;-)) *etc can u share your to do lists with me? regards ar bee

need some advice: i am up for avr some time this year - so far so good ;-)) i am not very sure how i am going to handle my mom: although she knows about my leaking valve (for almost 20y), she assumes (although i have told her of the opposite) that i might get by without avr. ==> Issue is that...

as if i didnt have any other worries, but still: any golfers here? how long after open heart surgery until the doc let you go out and hit balls again?? (yes i am addicted...) tks for some hints ar bee

hi all iam 39 with AR (severe, but asyptomatic) for almost 20 years (biscupid and endocartitis) and i am on hyzar to decrease pressure. ie the day of avr will come (as i see it now i would almost surely go for a mechanical valve). the issue i am facing is that 1 cardiologist and 1 surgeon...