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I had a mechanical valve replacement without any other issues (no aneurysm etc) so I don’t know how transferable my experience is. I’ve made a conscious effort to limit max weight lifts and for the most part train at 12 reps and then pyramid down to 4 or so. I’m still hitting 405 squats and...

Yes, the cardiologist who saw me during my admission also referenced data re: on-X performing less well than other valves post the clinical trials. I don’t have that study or data, it was a verbal conversation. From my personal experience it’s a higher risk valve (3 mini(?) strokes over 7...

That is awful. Good on you for making it back quickly. Glad to hear you’re ok. It doesn’t make sense to me either. It was fairly late at night, after a pretty long day that started with an intense leg workout. I’m starting to think it’s somehow exercise related, I also do occasionally use...

It is, and much appreciated.

Oh this is fascinating. So it wouldn’t necessarily be during a workout. Because I do lift fairly intensely. Curious whether it’s just heart rate (ie is cardio going to have roughly similar impact to lifting if HR is comparable) *a baby aspirin a day btw, ever since the first incident ** and...

I’ll be sure to ask about valve angle. I’m curious on what the link between intense exercise / stroke/clot is. I am pretty committed to weightlifting. Have inquired on this but the issue was always maybe blowing the valve out not causing a lot and I try to be mindful of breathing etc when...

Thank you. What was your experience, if you don’t mind sharing? Let me revise my initial data — looked at my records and for my 2018 event I was actually at 1.8 (for context, I think I was told 1.5-2 was target back then). I’m trying to pull my records for the 2019 event (happened at a large...

This is great, it’s very late here but I’ll chime in with what I have handy. -my understanding is these each qualified as strokes because there was evidence of impact visible on the MRIs. The first one resolved on its own, very small visible impact (apart from occluded vertebral artery); the...

Funnily enough I almost posted here right before my third stroke (which happened this week). The title is the quick explanation. I got my bicuspid aortic valve replaced when I was in my early 20s (2015) after a handful of years monitoring. Surgeon recommended the on-X and, daunted by specter of...