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Greg A - that was cute - thanks! I really think this site saves some minds!! not to mention hearts....

GREAT first step - I appreciate you admitting to the "afraid to go to sleep at night" because it's very real - and you may lie there and listen to your heart wondering what it is doing! Totally normal - well for some of us! You will catch a few people posting they don't have these fears but for...

Thank you all very very much for all your support last year - you got me through - truly!

Everyone has given you great advice and I came into your post because I will be exactly one year from AVR repair when you go in.... I will be thinking of you and sending you lots of positive wishes. The repair would be ideal and FANTASTIC but it won't be so bad if you have to get a new valve...

Approaching 1 year from my AVR and aneurysm repair and I can NOW say I had symptoms that I just lived with for about 7 years. Numbers are just numbers - do listen to your body!

Thanks all for sharing - and definitely there is depression, anxiety or trauma - at different levels and handled differently by everyone - they gave me anti anxiety drugs in the hospital..... since then i had more depression (week 7 particularly - I was ready for the other weeks but that one got...

omg - tough job to come back to - i work at a hospital but not in a unit - take good care !

I did the same thing! accomodated to where I was - believe me "tired" is a symptom - or as the anesthesiologist said right as I was getting wheeled into the OR this summer - while your "numbers" may have been average/okay and the medicines had the bp down to a "normal " range your poor heart...

wow - that story sounds all too familiar although my cardio argued for the transfusion and we did it my red count is still low and it does hold your breathing back I echo everyone everyone above you MUST do your breathingt and walking my coumadin management is not an issue now - so don't...

take care Robin

happy birthday and thanks much

I am with you -was in same piosition - even called off the surgery 5 years ago please listen to BOTH the experts/the numbers - but also listen to your body........ even in small ways it will tell you \ for example in the 6 months prior to my valve replacment - I was sick twice - checked for...

yes - I have now heart this twice - don't now the linkage but your are the 2nd person (plus Malibu) that I have heard have gallbladder and heart surgery in same year - wierd

take good care!

lol - the docs and surgeons all say you won't hear it!! hahahahahaha i hear mine at night, in the bathroom, when really quiet - etc i also have the darn muscle and back pain

THANKS all - once again I got on here depressed from the doc visit today and prepared to search this topic - when lo and behold...... here it is! I have the SA Node not firiing quite right and lots of "I don't know what".... skipped beats, added beats, vibrating - not really the high heart...

poor boy! and poor you this does bring back bad memories for me - morphine and iron bind and bind and bind took me 5 days and then did not get better (even with colace etc) the warm prune juice with some OJ and butter - did work - although I ended up taking it regularly the first couple of...

wish I could use that excuse1 mine is SOOOO loud to me in quiet places

thanks all - I am at 5 weeks and was wondering the same thing......... but I get that A-fib seems to have a higher heart rate/longer duration/more than the irregular beats that last a bit Like Penny I have been trying to figure out triggers when calling my NP last night for some PVCs that...

i have peeled like the dickens - right about 3 or 4 weeks - showed the PA at the surgeons - he said "yup" and really don't use lotion - yuck i have numbness at almost 5 weeks on right side mostly in rib area - again the PA at my surgeon said "yup" we hit/bug the nerves - but still ask your...