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During my stay, after my 2nd AVR, My tast and smell went all out of whack. Nothing tasted like it should. Citrus juices, which I love, tasted awful. The smell of hand sanitizer gel made me nauseous. It took a while, but things went back to normal.

I had my third AVR 14 months ago. About a month ago, my CBC showed low hemoglobin levels, so my GP put me on iron supplements. Last week, my hemoglobin levels dropped further so my GP referred me to a hemotologist. Tentative diagnosis is either hemolytic anemia or B-12 deficiency (or both). I...

On my second Mech Valve On my second Mech Valve My first AVR was a mech in '96. It only failed 9 years later from bacteria, (possibly from a dental infection), eating away at the sutures. It was replaced in '05 with a porcine valve and a pacemaker.In Feb of '09, they detected regurgitation...

Nothing Too Tawdry there, Miss. Nothing Too Tawdry there, Miss. :DGuess I'd better dust off my camera and strike a pose. Tomorrow is my two-month-a-versary. :D

What qualifies as a Tawdry shirt? What qualifies as a Tawdry shirt? Actually, I can provide my own shirt if i have one that qualifies as being tawdry enough. Where do i post the pic, once I've taken a suitably tawdry exposure? Roger

Tawdry Shirt Sign Up And Tracking Tawdry Shirt Sign Up And Tracking Where do we get the tawdry shirt?

I don't recall any dreams I've had while under anaesthesia, but I'm nearly certain that I did. and just don't remember them. Once, while coming around after a colonoscopy, my first words were "Penny Marshall".

Welcome to the site. While doing research for my first s/f novel (which i am still re-writing) I learned how to initiate lucid dreams (where the dreamer is conscious that they are dreaming and, in most cases, can control the dream). After my first St Jude AVR in '96, I ceased being able to 'go...

I don't know about the mitral valve, but I went from mechanical to tissue and recently back to mechanical.

Back to "normal" Back to "normal" The mild heat, antibiotics and antihistamines seem to have worked. My right hand is now baqck to its usual size. Thanks for the well-wishes. Roger

Not sure what it was. Possibly a bug bit that I didn't feel. The moist warm compress seems to be bringing the swelling down.

Back in the ER Back in the ER It actually started before we arrived at her place, but my wife's family is saturated with members of the medical profession narrowed it down to cellulitis or allergy. I've had it on moist heat treatment this morning and there is improvement. That and the meds...

re: Back to the ER click here: http://www.valvereplacement.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31405

Not painful,just annoying. porbably reaction to a bug bite.

When you were a youngster, did you ever put a latex glove on your hand and inflate it just enough that the palm and digits got fat and made it look like an inverted cows udder? [Like me, you probably had a lot of free time, huh?] Well, I sort of did that today, without the benefit of the latex...

I haven't received a questionaire yet, but if signing up here is the first step, I'll be getting one soon. I've already emailed them and got the info package.

It may take a week or two, but you'll get used to the ticking. Drove me nuts for the first three or four days. Then I started using it to take my pulse. Valve # 2 was a porcine and didn't hear it at all. With #3, a mechanical, I occasionally hear a tic or two. most of the time, i just hear a...

Thanks, Gina. It's strange , but through all of these surgeries, I'd never known my own blood type. This time, I asked and the answer has given me advice in aiding in my survival... B Positive.

Thanks, Lyn. I'm glad there are support sites for us.

DOB: May 14 1951 08/20/96 ? St Jude Mechanical AVR, Lakeshore Hospital ? Chicago, IL 12/05/05 ? St Jude Porcine AVR plus Guidant Pacemaker, Methodist Hospital Peoria, IL 06/03/09 ? St Jude Mechanical AVR plus Guidant Pacemaker, Methodist Hospital Peoria, IL I was born with a heart murmur. When...