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Just a quick update on this for anyone who is worried about high liver enzymes post surgery. After 6 weeks, my GGT was 350 U/L and my upper limit should be 71 U/L....have to admit, it concerned me.... especially when I did what I shouldn't have done and Googled it.... Anyway, I gave a blood...

Including in masculine places .😆

No evidence of any "limp mode" of any type anymore with me anyway.....:giggle:

I was anyway....my heart went from normal going into the op (cycled 30km the evening before going into hospital) to barely being able to shower after the op. I kinda like it to a car that goes into 'limp mode" when there's something like a sensor or something gone wrong...."limp mode" allows...

d333gs......don't expect to wake up and hop out of bed....the recovery process takes time. I was asymptomatic and fit going for my op. A few days after the op, walking across the room was a major achievement, then walking corridors and slowly building it up but despite how fit your heart is...

Remember, the new tissue grows around/through the material at the base of the valve (the ring), not through the leaflets.

I believe it's closer to 10 - 12 weeks for new tissue to surround the ring of the new valve and the stitches to dissolve. I'm in week 12 myself and I asked my surgeon that exact question at my 6 week check up - that's what he told me. I guess that could also explain why they don't want people to...

I think it takes about 10 to 12 weeks for the new tissue to form around the valve ring/stitches to dissolve (just something that I've heard but might not be absolutely accurate in terms of time).

This must be the third or fourth time I've seen you chime in with this type of post recently. I dont know what you have against tissue valves but you clearly do have some issue or other and believe they are flawed from the outset and that its all about revenue for doctors.

I've had the PVC thing going on every now and then too. Luckily, less and less but it only takes one to make me "tune in" to them and then it's a slippery slope 😄, particularly at night time. I hate them.....I dont care what the surgeons or cardiologists say, even if they are harmless, they...

You'd certainly get the impression from the surgeons that although they don't know how long he will get from it, it doesn't sound like it'll be months or years. That was my impression anyway. Groundbreaking though.

Ah yeah, I know. You're right to be fair. I guess I'm kinda new to this particular forum and I sometimes pick up the impression from here that tissue valve recipients made a bad choice getting tissue, particularly if on the "younger" side of the spectrum (which I suppose I am, at 52). Maybe it's...

That's what suits you. That's fine. It doesn't suit everyone. I had tissue implanted at age 52 and given everything I know and have experienced since, I'd make the exact same choice again if I was to roll back the clock. Like you, I made my choice and was well aware of the facts beforehand. So...

I can't hear the valve at all. Silent. I can feel the strong heartbeat of my heart and I can hear the heartbeat with my head on the pillow. However, half of the reason that I notice the heartbeats so much is that I can't fecking sleep 🥴....I only really started to notice it when I started having...

All I can say is that I have a tissue valve and I can hear the thump thump thump of my heart at night if I lie on my side with my head on the pillow. That keeps me awake. I'd have jumped out the window by now if I was clicking as well.

Well, I have a tissue valve since Nov 4th and it obviously doesn't click but by God, trying to get to sleep at night can be a challenge sometimes as well due to the thumping I hear/feel through my ears against the pillow.

When you say off all medication after 4 weeks, does that include beta blockers, aspirin and warfarin or just paracetamol? I think I'll be on the aspirin forever, the beta blockers for a long time (I suppose 1.25mg is a tiny dose but I'd rather not take it long term to be honest) but hopefully...

Yeah, it becomes kind of self propagating after a while too. I half expect to not sleep....then get annoyed when I can't sleep.... One other thing is that I stopped taking paracetamol around the same time as it started as the pain was not too bad. Nevertheless, there can be some pain now and...

I'm almost 8 weeks post AVR and I'm having pretty bad insomnia unfortunately. For the first few weeks, I'd get a couple of hours sleep, maybe wake for an hour and drift off for another couple of hours but for the last couple of weeks, I'm getting hardly any sleep at night. I dont sleep during...

You'd have to hand it to anyone who is brave enough to volunteer for one at this stage. Brave thing to do, especially if someone is in the young side. Fair dues to them. Could be revolutionary.