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atydev
First let me say hello and I have missed you all dearly. I have stayed away because my health has started to fail again and I have been so depressed I could not handle any sad news. I am glad to say I remembered that sometimes if you stop and listen to someone else and try to be there for them you relieze your problems are not so bad. I have a few questions I had my replacement in June of 2004 I was told to get off my depo shot cause it will interfer with my INR levels so I did and by sept of 04 I started having bleeding issues (depo is birth control shot) and it would not stop this went on till Dec. 04 I was finally admitted to the hospital and given blood due to the massive blood loss and after a week sent home. Well I had started going to curves and this all stopped when the bleeding started. I was feeling great havent felt that good in years. Then after the bleeding episode I started getting tired again short of breath and palpitations often with chest pains. I found out less than a year after replacement one of the valve is leakin again. They are not going to do anything right now so they say just watch it, but it is leaking just as much as when they replaced it which was 70% of the blood is getting thru. That I know does not sound to bad. They have also not checked it in over a year and a half to see if it has worsened. I now am like before I have no energy of my own, without caffine I cant accomplish anything and very little with it I have chest pains, paplitations, and shortness of breath. I breath heavy on the smallest bit of exertion, and sweat really bad after washing dishes my hair is soaked with sweat as if I just washed it. Grocery shopping is very hard it makes me exhausted and by the time I leave the store not only is my hair soakin wet ringing wet but my shirt is soaked around the neck. This is not normal for me to exert so much energy with so little of task. I am very heat sensitive I hate it. I do wake up every morning in a cold sweat, soakin wet. I have also been diagnosed with pre diabetes which I think is full diabetes due to the low blood sugar I keep havin, I get shakes, chills, sweats and very tired when it goes low this happens several times a week and hopefully my doctor will test this next time I go in. I am asking if anyone has had these problems because the first time I know I did not have the sweating issue as bad now it was difficult and had no energy everything was the same before my valve replacement except the sweating when I exert myself. Taking a shower is hard I get out of the shower sweating.
- I am surprised they still use it. I gained a lot of weight, had high blood pressure, and was very depressed while using it years ago. I have heard the same story from so many others. I did not even realize how it affected my mood until it was out of my system. That may be a huge factor in the down-ness you mentioned. Just a thought...
