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Hello all it’s been a while since I posted here. Coming up on my 11 year anniversary of my aortic valve replacement. So here I am, 62 years old, mechanical aortic valve. INR stays within 2.5-3.5 on 2.5 mg of Coumadin. My problem is osteoarthritis pain, mostly in in my knees. Tylenol doesn’t cut...

Hello all. I have an appointment with our family Doctor in a couple of weeks to see about some relief from pain in my right knee. With the colder weather kicking in its really bugging me. I know that cortisone injections are commonly given for joint pain and inflammation but I've read that it...

On April 17th of this year I had open heart surgery to replace my stenotic, bicuspid, aortic valve with a mechanical valve. I have to admit, the first six weeks after the surgery were very hard. I felt at that time that I would never be able to do my job again. For those of you that don't know...

Ok this sounds weird and is hard to describe. Whenever I lay down or sit a certain way in a chair and breath in deeply/exhale, I get this sensation in my left side, at the lower end of my ribcage. At one point I had it on the right side. It feels very similar to when I had bronchitis some years...

Hello everyone. I seem to read a lot about people here needing to go through surgery twice due to bacterial endocarditis setting in. How does one get it? Are there measures to prevent such a thing from happening? I did a Google search on this and didn't come up with much info except to not use...

First post here. Thank you Hank for the welcome, I appreciate your time. Well, here's my situation. I'm a healthy fifty one year old that was born with a bicuspid aortic valve and also had aortic stenosis. On April 17th I had my aortic valve replaced. The surgery went well and I am doing fine...