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Hi, all! Quick back story for those that don't know or remember me. I'm 2 years post mechanical mitral valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair, my third OHS. Last week I went for a routine follow up appointment to see one of my cardiologists. He reviewed my last ECHO and told me my aortic...

I haven't posted in a while but I'm still lurking around. Lol. I hope you are all doing well. I need to voice my frustrations...so here goes. I had a lab INR of 2.4 and my Coaguchek was 2.6 on Friday. Same day, about 30 minutes apart. I am very happy with these results as my meter has always...

Today marks the one year anniversary on my new journey. As I look back this past year has flown by, even though I often had to take it one day at a time. I really didn't want a mechanical mitral valve and I really didn't want a lifetime of coumadin but here I am. I don't usually celebrate my...

So it's been 8 months since I got my mechanical mitral valve and I now have to have my gallbladder out. I spoke with my cardiologist a few weeks ago and we discussed bridging my coumadin with lovonox and the sugeron who is doing my gallbladder surgery also discussed it when I met with him...

I need to vent...if I may. I have been on coumadin since January my cardiologists nurses are supposed to be managing my dose. I home test weekly on Mondays. The first few months I had no problems. Then the nurse I was working with went on medical leave. The past 6-8 weeks the other nurse...

A few weeks post op I was thinking I had avoided the mid back, scapula and shoulder pain that I had had with my previous OHS. Unfortunately the past several weeks, since starting cardiac rehab and going back to work the back pain, scapula pain and shoulder pain has begun. I have pain meds and...

My cardiologist has sent my information to the only local company that supplies INR monitoring equipment to get me set up with home INR testing. Would you believe that my insurance says my local company that I would get the meter and supplies from is in my network but the company that supplies...

I was wondering if those of you that have had multiple open heart surgeries have ever heard of or had your axillary artery and femoral artery used for putting you on the heart-lung bypass. I'm 4 weeks post op from my 3rd OHS and I have a large incision on my right upper chest just below my...

Looking at MVR in Jan. I’m 43 and have had 2 previous open heart surgeries. I assumed that due to my surgeries and age I would be given a mechanical valve with no other option. When I sat down with my surgeon and he went over both bioprosthetic tissue valve and mechanical valves and told me...

Hi all, just a little update. Saw my cardiologist this am and walked a whole 3 minutes (oh boy!) on the treadmill before my heart rate increased and I became SOB, I now have a cardiac rehab referral. We changed around some meds, added a new med and stopped a different med. Hopefully this will...

Hi all, just a quick note b/c I'm still in the hospital... Had surgery last Friday, the 20th. Surgery went from quick and simple to all day and complex. Spent till Tues in the ICU....it was way more then we and my surgeon expected...I will get into things later. Today, I am doing ok. They...

Hi all. I just got a call from my surgeon with my cath results, and confirming what the cardiologist told me yesterday. He said we should proceed as scheduled on Friday. The cath showed my gradient went up to 100 with the stress of medication. So my obstruction is significant. Good news is the...

Finally made it home from my cath today. What a day it was. I was scheduled for 8am, ended up going at 1pm. Made my anxiety a little hard to handle at times...but I managed. Husband said I was only 10% bad today. LOL Good news is it looks as if my aortic valve is in good shape with only a...

Hi all, I got back late Monday from our family cruise. I am so glad we were able to get away from it all. It was one of the best vacations I have had with my husband, son and some friends. We visited 5 different beaches in 10 days, now that was relaxing. Now I'm back home and the stress...

Hi everyone. This is my first post, I have been looking around for a couple of months. I scheduled surgery last week for subaortic membrane removal and possible aortic valve replacement on Nov 20th. I will have a cath on Nov 12th to look at the aortic valve to determine if it needs to be...