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Hi All, I'm happy and very grateful to say that I've been doing very well for a year now. My anniversary was Oct 28. I'm so glad that you have all been here to answer some of my questions during pre-op and helped me throughout my recovery. There is so much to talk about but I'll just keep it...

I've noticed that I still get PVCs when I workout. Is this normal? I'm not doing anything too crazy. I'm 6mth post op and we'll be seeing my cardio in a month. Aside from that and being slightly hypochondriac, everything is great! Life feels so good! :D

So I've noticed a few ingrown hairs around my incision (red blood blisters/pimples). One of them is bleeding now. Should I be worried? Or is this like any other sort of thing but near my incision? The last thing I want is an infection at the incision. Aside from that, the incision was well...

My BP was always normal before the surgery (~120/80). Then all of a sudden it spiked. After the surgery I was put on Bisoprolol to keep that in check and it worked. My BP was actually lower than normal at times 110/60. Slowly I was taken off of Bisoprolol and now 9 weeks post I am getting pretty...

So I'm now 7 weeks post-op. My feelings are mixed and I'm not sure how I should be physically at this point. I am 30 years old and had my BAV replaced with a mechanical valve and my ascending aorta + root replaced (Bentall) at the end of October. I haven't been able to exercise much since it's...

Did you get put on this medication post surgery? What was the dose and how long? I hear it's a pretty bad drug to be on, really don't want to be on it longer than I have to. I got a-fib in ICU, and I'm not sure if it was caused by someone trying to get me to do physio in the worse possible way...

My drainage tube incisions were left open and they weren't stitched. I've asked everyone I could in the hospital and was re-assured that they would close up and heal normally. Has anyone else been discharged with the drainage tube incisions left open? I change the bandages everyday and they're...

Hi everyone, If you could please dump all articles, studies and data links in this thread, that would be great. I'm trying to compare the two without being influenced by the marketing strategy and efforts of each company. Going in for surgery in 5 days and would like to choose between the two...

Hi, I just joined this forum recently since I'm about to get heart surgery in the coming months. I still need to pick a date and choose the valve/procedure. I have a bicuspid valve that was stenotic from birth and it started to regurgitate after I had a balloon valvuloplasty at the age of 12...