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@Protimenow Check the below 12-lead ECG, which is informative about heart rhythms! Given to me by a student cardio doctor.

Re iWatch7: don’t trust it 100 percent! I was hooked to a monitor every time I went to my cardiac rehab exercise session at UCLA last summer. My iWatch7 warned me, more than a few times, that my pulse elevated to 167, 170, and 180 bpm. Guess what: false alarm…the monitor was in the 90s! Re...

I feel numbness in arms and legs, but I relate them to high sodium food intake, as they always happen when I eat Chinese or other salty foods near the end of the day! Keep us posted. Interested to know your doctor’s professional opinion.

My three-months after-surgery echo showed mild regurgitation in both valves. It’s still mild up till today and, regretfully, I wasted too much good energy on worrying about it unnecessarily.

I spent 10 days in icu. If you like to hear more responses, you may start a new thread.

… Accelerated heart rate alone is not an indication of A-Fib! A-Fib is diagnosed when the heart beats are irregular (no rhythm)! Heart rate can be within accepted high limits (or lower) but still in atrial fibrillation So, your workouts had elevated your heart rate, but the beats may have...

I remember that member and others too complaining about nightmares! I’m sure it happens. And maybe I did have a couple of nightmares after the surgery, but I thought then they were caused by the mix of the many medicines I was given. But in my case and luckily, It’s been vivid colorful long...

Wishing you many happy and healthy returns.

Absolutely true re “specifics from patient to another”. Before I was discharged from the hospital, my surgeon told me my INR should be between 2.5-3.5; YET, in my personal case, not to be alarmed if it goes up to 4…4 is still ok (for me)!

This is what my original cardio used to stress on saying about the benefit of staying on it in addition to lessening the work load on the heart. After what I had gone through after I stopped it twice, now I love my metoprolol (personal opinion)!

Yes. Very interesting and entertaining too!.

I had very vivid dreams when I started taking it (and could have written books), which subsided with time. But never nightmares.

None related to it.

I just started seeing Dr. Cho. I’m very pleased with his knowledge. Check him out: https://www.uclahealth.org/providers/geoffrey-cho

I took metoprolol after surgery and I felt annoyed with the fatigue. My cardio at the time always encouraged me to stay on it and stressed on its benefit to keeps the heart at ease! After four or five years, we moved to a new area and the new cardiologist felt I could stop it! My heart was...

Sorry for what you’re going through. My two 2-cents advice: 1- try to stop the Ovaltine for a few days and see how your heart reacts! My heart doesn’t tolerate it! 2- Check your oxygen level, mainly during sleep. Since my pulmonologist prescribed an oxygen concentrator for me that I attach to...

Wishing you many more healthy years to celebrate

Congratulations. Wishing you many more years.

Cheers to many more healthy years to come.