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I'm a CFA charter holder from my days in Private Equity/Venture Capital. Again, illustrating that you don't have enough information from my forum postings to even make a correct decision about my financial background, let alone enough information to give me (or others) medical advice. It would...

Yes. Dr. Vaugn Starnes, I have things to do today but you can look him up. I can only go by your own words quoted exactly from your own post (see post above), specifically: "I leaned towards the ATS. At that time, I had almost no knowledge of the ATS." If you posted a correction somewhere...

Stick around for a while. 1. No, I did not relay all my medical facts or ask anyone here for their medical opinion on valve choice before surgery... but I was negatively influenced by reading this board in a way that would have turned disastrous if my Barrett's esophagus/potential future...

I agree that knowing the possible complications and remedies of discovering a Warfarin issue after implantation should be a consideration and is not really covered much (as far as I know) on this forum. The other issue I would like to see is consideration of how warfarin may complicate future...

It's important for people coming here during a very stressful and confusing time in their lives to know that the person pretending to be an expert here (you) is giving them advice contrary to what they actually did themselves. It's also important to show how this advice could harm them. If you...

Chuck, It's interesting how group think here has evolved into you and your group believing posters such as yourself and your small group have as much knowledge as doctors and surgeons and that readers should take your medical advice/knowledge as equivalent to their medical professionals...

Hello Newarrior, I said you mismanaged your resources because you use your investments as your main source of income and, as such, your portfolio should have been set up as very risk adverse, income generating and hedged against a downturn... and it wasn't... as proven by your substantial...

Newarrior, At some point you have to take full personal responsibility for yourself and your situation, both medical and financial. Full stop here. First, you know you'll need surgery so pick a valve option and move on. Second, no one owes you a free surgery or a life free of having to work...

Excellent!

Just to let you know, you were not rude. Pellicle was rude and he's routinely rude to anyone who does not 100% agree with/follow his "expert" opinions. It's just who he is. It's too bad too because he does have some good input when he doesn't veer off into this rude jerk stuff. Read through...

So true… 😂

Hello DJ, I went tissue valve and it’s been working out pretty well. No complaints here and I feel better than I have in decades. Best thing is I can go weeks without thinking/worrying about anything heart related. Definitely a new lease on life. As far as Afib post surgery, I had one episode...

Hello DJ, I am on 1/2 a 25 mg Atenolol beta blocker (and have been since before my surgery, higher dosage before surgery) which for me is mainly to keep Afib away. Afib was a big problem before surgery and almost zero now (skipped beat now and then) but the Atenolol is a good preventative...

Hello DJ-Rae09, I had a BAV with severe regurgitation where my ejection fraction dropped well below 50% which caused my left ventricle to enlarge to (I believe but would have to check to make sure) to over 6 (I believe 5.2 is the cutoff for normal) and the walls to thicken, Afib, etc.. After...

100% agree, anyone can find a study that validates their viewpoint (Which I see over and over on this forum). TO ANYONE READING THIS FORUM LOOKING FOR ADVICE ON WHICH VALVE TO CHOOSE: A surgeon (and/or cardiologist) with years of real world experience combined with years and years of...

I don’t know if this will help but the way I approached heart surgery (and life in general) is to do everything I can to prepare for the event/life and then expect things to work out. Find the best doctors you can, find the best facility you can, get in the best shape you can, get your personal...

Yes, interesting that you edited your last post... LMAO! Have a good day and thanks for the laugh!

Agreed! Progress is a good thing. And when it does come out, I hope people don't try to talk/scare other people out of it (and thereby lower their quality of life) because it doesn't/won't have years of in patient data backing it.

I thought I was the only one to experience flying through this "world from hell" but it's interesting (and I'm glad I'm not the only "crazy" one) to see others have such similar experiences. I wonder what in the mind creates this specific hallucination?