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It's been almost 10 yrs since I had my 1st valve replaced. I went to ER last week because of shortness of breath, ankle swelling & generally feeling like I had the flu. Well they figured out my problem - stenotic valve. i will be going to see the cardiologist to go over the results & talk about...

My Edward bovine has lasted 9 yrs, put in at the Cleveland Clinic. When & if I need to get another (I'm 65) it probably will be a tissue again. I love the freedom of not having to watch levels of RX. Working at a large hospital I see the effects of warfarin on a daily basis. Mostly older &...

Hello, It's been nearly 2 years since my valve replacement surgery, I did have have 1 set back eary on with pericardial effusion. it was fixed. However the latest TEE showed that I have a slight ventrical enlargement. Has any one found this to be typical or a worrysome symptom? Thanks for any...

Hello, Has anyone been diagnosed with PTSD after their surgery(ies)? I find it very hard not to stop thinking that if I wouldn't have followed up 5 months later after an associate of my primary suggested an heart echo and never had any follow up. Also had a bad experience with pericardial...

Hello Ya'll I've had a distended stomach & I guess bloating for several months. Now I nearly threw up after a heart dinner the following AM, & I have reflux (which i have never had) I had a pericardial effusion which required a tamponade last june. This whole distention/bloating started a few...

Hello y'all, I'm getting an urge to head for Cleveland, Trey must have a bovine valve too!! I've got that urge to herd!!!!!!! esvaja

yo As far as being in Michigan, at least for most of us in the lower P, Lansing might be a good halfway point. I live near Ann Arbor, I know Trey is somewhere nearer Detroit. Sending good wishes his way in Cleveland. Anyways i've been trying to find any support group with people who have had...

I'm amazed & awed at your tenacity, I would have asked for lots of pain meds & ?passed away quietly. Many prayers & wishes on the way. Keep yourself together for all of us, it unfortunately is a learning experience. esvaja

Good news, It's not peri-cardial effusion, I will check out some other possibilities & still keep seeing my therapist. Thanks agian for your support. esvaja PS "I have been to the bottom & it is SOLID."

You know, I thought the conversation i overheard during my post-op had something to do with partying - I thought "how inappropriate". I had surgery w/Dr P too, & I thought it was the fentonyl talking in the ICU. I know that a patient crashed twice in the ICU while I was there. How bizarre...

Unbelievable, I just got off the phone with the cardiac fellow on call. It hasn't just been depression, sadness, whatever. It suddenly upside the head hit me that I been feeling like I did when I had the pericardial effusion post surgery. He recommended I either go in tonight for an echo or wait...

I am SO sorry for you & I can empathize, no one wants to touch me here @ the U either because i had surgery @ CCF. I did realize that when I chose to go to CCF there might be some noses out of joint, but I had some very good reasons to go to CCF. I just can't believe that the local Drs won't...

Hey yooper, Oh that's right your from the banana belt. I lived in the copper country for a while & hope to get back some day. Still stay @ a friends camp every summer on the Lake. Do you go to the VA in Ann Arbor? Wouldn't Green Bay have a VA hospital? As far as followup, they'll probably see...

Chris, Have you been excercising? It seems from the posts that those are doing better that excercise a lot. I started cardio-rehab as soon as i was allowed, but I lost interest in it after a month. Maybe because I was depressed? maybe because i was the only female in the group, one of the...

Quite right. i communicated by writing with my finger on my husband's hand right after I woke up.. He had to do some guessing, but we had talked about some situations - like I want the tube out NOW. The yelling occured after the tube was out & when my husband came back the 2nd time. So there.

Geez, I wish they would do more pre-op to calm you down. I was almost hysterical before I was wheeled into the operating room & was introduced to everybody. I really didn't care who was who. I had no dry throat, no pain after waking up in the ICU, but someone did say, that waking up in the ICU...

Hi, It's been a while since I last posted. Sometimes I wonder how much a support group helps, sometimes ignorance seems to be the best. i just read about the infection ocnurse(sp) caught from the CCF, where I had my surgery 4/6/11. the reason I went there was because of the crappy care I...

Hello, I chose to go to Cleveland vs U of M hospital because of their stats. The surgeon is VERY important but the followup care is also as important. The experience of the staff, post-operative infections etc. I did have to go for followup care for pericardial effusion at the U, I stayed for 6...

Hello, I've also been fighting an on again, off again temp. !st thing they did was a double blood draw & culture. Since it turned out negative now they say the temp I keep running on & off is probably an autoimmune response. Boy do I feel crappy when I have it. Dr's in Cleveland seem to think my...