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For the past ~ 2 years, I've been avoiding my routine dental cleanings -- I usually alternate between my dentist's hygienist and my periodontist's similar technician -- because I've seen so much research attributing all kinds of wellbeing to a healthy gut "microbiome" and attributing health ills...

I've had a nagging "Summer Cold" -- post-nasal drip and lots of coughing, both dry and "productive" -- for maybe MONTHS this summer. Self-medicating with this and that, bicycling and sailing, living my life normally except for the coughing and occasional spewing. Saturday Night, after a long day...

I've been updating "my blog" -- at http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?36952-Norm-s-Story-so-far-starting-with-recovery&p=505952&highlight=norm%27s#post505952 -- with news of my return to some pretty aggressive volleyball. So far, so good, and it feels great to be back! Thought...

Last night or the night before, just after getting into bed, I stuck my fingers on my neck to check my pulse. Instead of going "beat, beat, beat, beat. . .", it was going "beat, beat, pause, beat, beat, pause. . ." consistently! If you're a musician, it was like a piece in 3/4 time, with...

1) NSAID use associated with future stroke in healthy population, September 8, 2010 | Sue Hughes, http://www.theheart.org/article/1119849.do 2) Even short-term NSAID use risky in cardiac patients, May 9, 2011 | Megan Brooks, http://www.theheart.org/article/1223565.do . Maybe technically...

Before I went in for my surgery, I ordered a dirt-cheap little heart-monitor watch from an eBay vendor in Hong Kong. Like the one at i.ebayimg.com/07/!B-OR)Kg!mk~$(KGrHqF,!k0Ey+jC0-3,BM8FJVl6RQ~~0_3.JPG , or the current eBay listing item #170570520224 . US$2.99 POSTPAID(!), for a pretty...

For a while after my recent BAVR/OHS, I thought I was just itchy because my chest hair was re-growing in the region of my incision. But my BACK and my FOREARMS are also loving being scratched, as well as my chest. I recently bought a back scratcher, and I'm wearing it out. Yesterday, I asked an...

I recently posted the following in a Pre-Surgery thread, and Al C asked me to post it here: . . . About tissue-valve longevity and other reasons to choose one tissue valve over another. There are some general "high-level" considerations that may not be obvious. E.g., valve "design" is evolving...

6.5 d post-op, generally very pleased, but I've got a puzzle with my metoprolol B-blocker: 1) My HR has been much higher than normal (and much higher than "symptomatic-defective", too!) since my surgery -- like 90-something resting, vs. ~60. I've also felt a lot of "my heart beating out of my...

OK, I've been meaning to start this for days now, and here goes at last! It's Monday, almost exactly 5 days after they wheeled me out of the OR last Wednesday. I was supposed to be home now, but I got "stuck" here overnight by a little SNAFU from different teams manipulating my INR in different...

Admins, can you delete this, please? I can't figure out how to do that.

I'm pretty new here, posting from Toronto, Canada. My GP (PCP) noticed a murmur ~5-6 years ago, which led to me hooking up with a Cardiologist, getting periodic stress and non-stress echo cardiograms to monitor my BAV. There was a CT scan or two thrown in, too. Meanwhile, I was a super-active...