Hi
that's good, I always encourage that ... did you come across this?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4889185/
The conclusions are mind-bogglingly facepalm ... but then it is an older study. However the important parts are the risks ... so I'm going to echo to you what my surgeon said to me:
- keep doing light exersize
- pay attention to how you feel and don't over do it
ok ... so you may need to explain to them the situation (unless you fear being dismissed) and perhaps they can take you away from any heavier parts of the dynamic (and does the job involve heavy lifting or just bursts of activity, dynamic simply means changing, so I'm at a total loss as to what you may exactly mean. For instance "star jumps" are "dynamic" but squats may seem static (but places strain on the heart as the muscles load up the heart). Just like you hear the pump in this hydraulic press load up when the resistance increases.
remember your muscles go from being soft and allowing blood flow when at rest to contracting and becoming tight during a lift. The result is that huge resistance changes occur and the heart loads up.
A squat
https://www.healthline.com/health/exercise-fitness/squats-benefits#muscles-worked
the walking is fine, so too the driving ... what part is stressful (and if its emotional stress then you do need to consider learning better psychology for dealing with that or changing jobs in the longer term as that stuff kills you slowly).
its the little hole which the clagged and fused valve which is supposed to open has become due to stenosis ... (just in case: late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek
stenōsis ‘narrowing’, from
stenoun ‘make narrow’, from
stenos ‘narrow’).
unlikely but injure you it will because of loading
if you do not take it easier.
That injury will perhaps not be felt but will lead to ongoing complications which will emerge in the coming years such as arrythmias.
that's good, but the body is adaptable and that BP is when at rest, not what the heart must struggle against when under load
its not just possible, its totally certain unless you die from something else first. So that's why you need the surgery to cut out that blocked up and non functioning valve and put in a new one. Which brings me to...
Remember that there is no definitive 'cure' for valve disease.
Despite the marked improvements in prosthetic valve design and surgical procedures over the past decades, valve replacement does not provide a definitive cure to the patient. Instead, native valve disease is traded for “prosthetic valve disease,” and the outcome of patients undergoing valve replacement is affected by prosthetic valve hemodynamics, durability, and thrombogenicity. Nonetheless, many of the prosthesis-related complications can be prevented or their impact minimized through optimal prosthesis selection in the individual patient and careful medical management and follow-up after implantation.
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As mentioned at present we exchange a diseased valve with a variety of options which then gives you "prosthetic valve disease" or something worse. Prosthetic valve disease is divided into two groups with different management approaches
- bioprosthetic valve disease - managed surgically by replacement of that valve (so yes, heart surgery again) if you don't die before that (common in patients over 70yo because the valves last over 10 years in the elderly but the elderly don't last over 10 years). This also nearly always means being on warfarin in the last stages of that prosthetic valve
- mechanical valve disease - managed by warfarin therapy
alternatives to those two are "homografts" and or some complex combination of homografts and autografts ... lets not do the Ross now.
save your sick leave till after surgery ... I mentioned above all the things I think you should do.
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winter is winter ... it won't bother your heart valve (but if you don't wear gloves it will bother your fingers. I spent a lot of time in Finland doing outdoor activity ... both before and after getting my mechanical valve
before the mechanical valve / aneurysm repair
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after it when regaining my fitness
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life is a journey ... walk it and don't forget to look around and enjoy the beauty
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and the fun
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Simple like that.
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