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Well done survey. Nice and brief and to the point. I think when considering any solution (assuming it’s a problem for some), one also has to consider whether or not the healthcare system would see it as enough of a problem that it would be a covered procedure. If it were covered, non-invasive...

Fortunately my diet allows me the flexibility to decide if that which I see is or is not, in fact, food. 😁

Wouldn’t even be a contest. Superman would have him disassembled in no time. Unless he had the foresight to incorporate kryptonite into his bionics. Wouldn’t that be something? Thing that always bugged me is that he had one bionic arm, two bionic legs, and a bionic eye. But he lifted stuff...

The Six Million Dollar Man was an old America TV series staring Lee Majors as The Bionic Man. Rebuilt after an accident with “bionic” / robotic parts that made him a super-hero. Super strength, vision, speed, etc. So now it’s kind of entered American slang to refer to any artificial parts as...

I’m on a strict see-food diet. I see food. I eat it.

The name calling isn’t needed. Responded so you can’t delete like usual.

Well, there was this lady. And she had a St Jude mechanical heart valve. She climbed Mt Everest and lived to tell about it. The end. 😁 A little closer to home - and not nearly as impressive- I have a St Jude mechanical valve and hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back up two...

To lend a little credibility (for whatever goodwill I’ve built up here anyway). I was able to meet kreagan in person last year when I was on a college visit with my son at her University. The survey is legit. She’s a student and working on the project as indicated.

Good grief. I’ve been ignoring your obnoxious thread necromancy for a while now, but holy smokes. You know @Chuck C. You’ve had tons of dialogue with him. You’re posting this like you haven’t asked these questions 1,000 times already and received answers. Not only from Chuck but from...

No worries. Probably as much to do with the way I follow the forums. I don’t look at sub-sections much. I just look at, “What’s New” on my phone. That way anything new is at the top no matter where it’s posted. I’ve never paid much attention to the various sections, unless I have something...

Curious what kind of different responses you would expect by starting a new thread? If anything, continue the discussion on that thread. Engage with the people responding to you. We’re happy to share our experiences. If 75% or more of the patients are over 60, is it any surprise that only...

Consider the average age of a valve replacement recipient. I’ll give a hint. It’s well north of 60. If you’re 65 and have a survival rate of ~15 years, that’s normal life expectancy. I was 17 when I had my valve replaced. I’m 50 now. Married with five kids. I don’t feel like I’m on...

Guessing your English is far better than any of our Portuguese. Thanks for updating. 😁

People know that the Hippocratic Oath sates, “Above all, do no harm.” It takes a lot of life lessons to realize that it doesn’t say, “Always do what’s in the best interest of your patient.”

Can’t add much to what has already been said. Just reading your intro. Welcome to the forum and best wishes as you move through this journey. Many of us have been where you are, still others are exactly where you are. Ask as many questions as you want. My own story is an aortic valve...

Ouch! Is she one of those who wondered how you could have the nerve to burden her with your health issues?

I know mitral and aortic valve ranges are different, with mitral being higher. I’ll defer to people more well read than I as to why that’s the case. I presume it’s due the lower velocity of blood flow through that valve vs the aortic, which leads to the potential for a greater duration of...

This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read on these forums. I’m sad that I can only like it once.

I’m going to guess that it’s not available *without a prescription* in pharmacies. And when random person off the street asks for it, they get told it’s not available and misunderstood that to mean not available at all.

Isn’t that the same thing? 🤔