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My resting pulse took a long time to come down after my last surgery 13 years ago. Fitness monitors weren’t a thing in 2009, so I don’t have data to go back to to compare. But 90-100 sounds about right and it took a few weeks.

I subscribe to the notion that when you have young kids, we’re in control of the messaging and things are as big a deal as we make them to be. My kids were all under eight years old during my last surgery. They all know that I had heart surgery. The older ones remember some stuff about me...

More travel in this thread…. https://www.valvereplacement.org/threads/staying-the-course-summer-already.888620/ My wife and I did a rim to rim hike of the Grand Canyon this summer. National Parks too many to mention here. Used to do mountain biking when I was younger. Heading to the...

I’ve been happily ticking away for over 32 of my 50 years. Sometimes I notice it. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I’ll notice it stronger in one position and turn and it quiets down. But it doesn’t bother me enough apparently. Even after 32 years I still couldn’t tell you what the “quiet...

I was also sent home with Tramadol and Vicodin. Vicodin didn’t do it for me though. Made me feel like I was going to pass out. Used Tramadol for a couple days maybe. Ended up throwing most of it out. But I didn’t have to ask for either. It’s just what they sent me home with.

I slept in a recliner for about three or four weeks. I found being slightly tilted was easier on my chest. And the recliner helped me get up. I’ll add more later. But for sleep, that was the thing I needed.

You’re free to say the sky is plaid, but if someone is making a life or death decision based on the color of the sky, you can expect to have that information corrected, clarified, or whatever. In a forum like this, it’s not going to be left to stand and in the good old US of A, people are free...

What if they understand each other and are both wrong? 🤔

De-viscosinator.

Shop online. Return in person. More efficient. My wife shops. I reverse shop.

Part of it too, and this is no fault of the OP, but it has been discussed a lot lately in valve decision threads. Could just be topic fatigue. Recommend the OP peruse the top few threads on, “What’s New” and they’ll find a lot of discussion about this.

Sorry. I use “argue” very loosely. How about an informed discussion. 😁

Sadly, I fear this is why On-X has been trying so hard to medically differentiate themselves from the competition. Some might say dangerously so. If there isn’t a “medical need” to change, create one!

If you didn’t make to the end of pellicle’s dissertation above, this is the part that matters: 😁 By the way, it’s probably worth pointing out that On-X has been out now as long as St. Jude was when I got mine back in 1990. They (St. Jude) quickly took over as the standard vs the ball and cage...

I used to play tackle American football on the playground, no pads. And basketball at the YMCA. I took an elbow to the eye and turned my ankle. All on warfarin. The next day after basketball I drove an hour and a half to my first date with my now wife, and I showed up on crutches. My...

This chart is what it boils down to for me. Essentially no difference in mortality for the control group. But what they call no difference in TE and thrombosis events is 30% higher in the test group vs the control group. It would seem, given the higher bleeding events in the control group that...

By contrast, I lived in a recliner for about three weeks or so. I found it much easier to sleep in and get up from than a bed. I could use the big cushy armrests to help me hold my six month old daughter. Kick my feet up if I needed to. God forbid I ever have to do this again, I’m going to...

The On-X is FDA approved for a therapeutic range of 1.5-2.0 INR. You will find that amongst us long time Warfarin addicts, trying to manage below 2.0 would be anxiety inducing. What you decide for you with the guidance of your medical team is ultimately your own choice. My target is...

If you’re testing weekly, personally I’d just stick to that. If you’re every other week, add a test at a one week interval.

I might not have been clear. I was responding to someone who was using a bit of caution with the thought of getting their tissue valve to last longer. My point was to ask if that really mattered. If they have to intervene in the future I don’t see that one more year makes much of a...