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For a while now, I forget, or don't want to take my metropol tartrate twice a day and my aspirin. I take it at least once a day. Sometimes I look right at the vial and still don't take it. I dont know why. I tried taking them at different times, at night and during the day I tend to forget or...

A side effect of this blood pressure medicine is shortness of breath...also fatigue, less capacity for exercise. I experience these and have been taking it since 2017, after my 2 surgeries. Cardiologist does not connect the medicine with these side effects as cause or effect. Wondering if any...

Assuming you are years past your valve surgery (mine was mitral valve and double bipass over 5 years ago) how often do you take the test? That is, when your cardiologist tells you to. Do you take it even with no symptoms and feeling fine? I understand its purpose and some patients take no...

And he is out for the rest of the season, indefinitely. Odd thing, I had a premonition that he would be gone. Tony LaRussa is in the news...a hall of fame baseball manager, age 77. And yet the feedback is that fans are indifferent and some don't want him back. Not sensitive at all. Some players...

Five years ago, mitral valve replacement and double bypass. Successful. No symptoms now. Had to rehab all alone without help at home...hospital followup was excellent.

Four years after my double bipass and valve replacement, my doctor ordered this "deluxe" echo test. I have no symptoms of new heart trouble. With my BlueCross, it is $250. or 10% of total. I wonder, why did I need this? (It was normal.) Usually tests are $50.00. I don't want to take...

It is now 4 years since my double bipass and valvereplacement. Seems longer. Cannot complain. I was well taken care of. Took major stress test last week.

Three years since my double bipass and valve replacement. No problems since. Still see my doc every 6 months for checkup. No new medicines. Very grateful!

Have any of you taken this medicine and later on developed heart problem as side effect? Or tendon problem? A study done last year showed that .9% of patients had some mitral regurgitation. I don't know what regurgitation feels like, but I had it prior to my surgery almost 3 years ago. I'm...

Valve replacement with tissue and double bipass successfully done at MacNeal (Loyola) Hospital, Illinois I always felt very taken care of. Just wish I had someone with me during home recovery.

In this forum, rarely does anyone mention how their surgery affected their family, relations with friends or whomever. Why? Also, not much is written on positive or negative emotional or psychological reactions from OHS. Is everyone very private? Is this not a good issue? The forum needs more...

Have any of you returned to visit the nurses and medical staff that took care of you at the ICU or rehab in the hospital or elsewhere--maybe to thank them? Or just to talk? Do you ever think about them--if your surgery was recent? My hospital is very close by and I have other appointments there...

As I said in another message, I am recovering alone and managing all right. However, I am disappointed in my senior age sister because she had not called me in the last nine weeks, or since a week after I left the hospital for a double bipass and valve replacement. I sent her a nice card, still...

My doctors told me no alcohol for a while after my valve was replaced with tissue and my double bipass was done almost a month ago. Also no driving for 4-6 weeks. I can live without a drink but no driving is very inconvenient and difficult for me to to do basic errands. I have no one to help me...