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Arnie
First of all, I'm new here. It looks like y'all have a great site going. I did a little browsing before starting this post.
For a brief summary, I've always had a small heart murmur from a leaking valve. Medications over the last 20 years have kept my heartbeat regular. I've never been restricted in what I can do and so is still the case. However, I've had 3 incidents within the last 3 years where my heartbeat went fast and irregular....i guess they call this going out of sinus rhythm. Anyway, this last time I elected to have the cathator ablation done to correct the area causing the problem. The cardiologist said someday I'll probably have to have the leaking valve fixed. It could be 5 years from now or it could be 10 years, nobody knows for sure.
I know a lot of you probably have more serious conditions but I'm only 48 and the thoughts of going thru this years down the road have me scared. I'm wondering after an operation like the valve replacement how many people can continue to work fulltime and how normal their lifestyles can be? I can get very paranoid over this by thinking on it too much.......or am I really worrying too much?
It's really working on me mentally.
For a brief summary, I've always had a small heart murmur from a leaking valve. Medications over the last 20 years have kept my heartbeat regular. I've never been restricted in what I can do and so is still the case. However, I've had 3 incidents within the last 3 years where my heartbeat went fast and irregular....i guess they call this going out of sinus rhythm. Anyway, this last time I elected to have the cathator ablation done to correct the area causing the problem. The cardiologist said someday I'll probably have to have the leaking valve fixed. It could be 5 years from now or it could be 10 years, nobody knows for sure.
I know a lot of you probably have more serious conditions but I'm only 48 and the thoughts of going thru this years down the road have me scared. I'm wondering after an operation like the valve replacement how many people can continue to work fulltime and how normal their lifestyles can be? I can get very paranoid over this by thinking on it too much.......or am I really worrying too much?
It's really working on me mentally.