katielady72
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As the title states, I had normal ef function around 60 - 65% ef function before my AVR, I was lucky. Now a year and a few months later, I just had my first yearly follow up echo and it showed severely low ef function at 35% and I am not in systolic heart failure. I have a normally low blood pressure of around 110/65 but my heart rate is usually sitting around 95 - 105 all the time. In july of this year my cardio said it was just low resting tachycardia and he wasn't worried because my ekg looked ok other than my lbbb (left bundle branch block) and my valve sounds good. he decided not to do an echo then and said to wait for my yearly check up.Needless to say when he got the results he was more than shocked and very worried. I am now on the lowest dose of an ACE inhibitor and beta blocker he could give me but with my already low blood pressure I can't even function, all I want to do is sleep and I nearly fall over with dizziness. Has anyone else heard of low ef % after AVR with normal ef % before? I am baffled, confused, upset, angry and very, very very scared...thanks for reading