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My surgeon said go for antibiotic cover because it's a lot better than endocarditis and if you've had the antibiotic before you should be fine. This is in the UK - I don't know whether the dentists can still prescribe the antibiotic or whether a visit to the Doctor would be required here.

I wouldn't touch this kind of surgery with a barge pole - the robots will worm their way into being accepted as surgeons and all sorts of other life-preserving jobs as a precursor to wiping us out!!

I had it after surgery. They fixed it with a de-fib and gave me some really trippy drugs. Though they had it on a test cycle first and it was a talking machine so I thought they had forgotten to give me the drugs and were shocking me anyway which was scary for a second - I was even doing the...

Partly the fact that they're more sophisticated machines but also the fact that they've not been making them for that long, and there aren't that many users so they don't have the massive economies of scale that they get from the diabetes machines. It's not as if the pharma companies aren't...

The white ones are way cheaper. They still work but they're not as good as the yellow ones. Annoyingly not called Softclix Coaguchek lancets (the white ones are called Softclix Accuchek lancets), but are called Softclix XL. Had to go through the whole product list at the pharmacy to find that...

Thanks all - hoping to get a lot more ticks out of the thing yet. Not sure how long it's supposed to last. It's a St. Jude - which doesn't seem to be the popular selection on this site, though looking around I wonder if this site is sponsored by On-X. I was reading up on that sort of stuff...

Me too. Held tight with surgical tape. :) Though I got little contraption for explanding lung capacity with a little ball that goes up and down. And a massive bag of drugs. :D

That's one year the little valve has been ticking inside me now, so thought I'd pop in and say hi and wish everyone luck who is waiting for surgery, recovering from surgery or having issues further on afterwards. :) Also, it's not lost on me that being in England I was lucky enough to get fixed...

Yep, so long as the relevant bits aren't diseased or cancerous, and so long as you don't have HIV or hepatitis. With most of us I imagine they're not going to bother with the heart.

Thanks all for your responses - sure I'll be able to find something suitable amongst these leads. :cool:

My first post on here - please be nice . . :o I'm 8 weeks post-surgery (St Jude aortic valve and aortic plication) and feeling pretty good and I have a question for you all. I was thinking of getting some 'dog tags' made so that if I'm in an accident the emergency services will know what to...