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I am shocked to read such sad news, with so many success stories it hits very hard when one of our members doesn't make it. My sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Hello Sue Another double valver; aortic and mitral ATS for me in June 2005. I just had my annual check-up yesterday and my cardiologist says all is well. Ask anything you want and like the others I will try to answer it for you.

I have been and it certainly was interesting in that it was much more pleasant than I expected. For thirty-five years I have only had private care with the associated well-appointed and luxurious surroundings. I arrived at the hospital a bit early as I allowed time to park only to find that...

This ought to be interesting, this is my first check-up as a 'public' patient, I have always had private health insurance until last year. What will be most interesting is the lack of medical records as here private patient records belong to the doctor who treated you, so the urologist will...

I don't know about pump head but I don't have atherosclerosis as far as I am aware but I certainly am not the same now as I was prior to my endocarditis. Mind you the vegetation breaking off and causing a stroke obviously did some damage so perhaps it is just that and anno domini causing me...

Welcome. I also have ATS valves, a couple of them, and am very happy with them.

I have had the CT version, CT Colonography. My GP insisted that I have it after I went to him with a bleeding haemorroid, he wanted to be sure there was nothing sinister that needed to be looked at. I had to have the revolting preparation as in drinking the awful mixture a couple of times...

I also have tinnitus, some probably caused by various medication.

I am one of those with the higher range, mine is 3.0 to 4.0 as I had both mitral and aortic valves replaced. I am very happy to be on the higher range and have no problems with it at all in the way of bleeding etc. I did hit 8.9 once in the early days and just had a rash of pinprick spots. :)...

It sounds wonderful to me to have a husband (or wife) who is caring. I suppose it must be a bit stifling but is much better than either being alone or having a spouse who wouldn't allow you to be ill. When I was married I had 'women's surgery' and my ex-husband expected me to carry on...

We were given a rolled up towel which was most effective, the nurses called it 'your baby'.

Can you not get your GP to refer you to the cardiologist that you saw privately but through your health service?

My depression didn't kick in for quite some time, way past three months.

Not a thread that I expected to see after all the lead-up! Congratulations and wishing you well for a speedy and event-free recovery.

Way to go! Aim for the two billion. :)

I don't know what sort of symptoms you have and just how severe your condition is but when I was waiting for surgery my life was very difficult, I don't think I would have lived long without the surgery anyway and if I wasn't going to have the surgery then I wouldn't have wanted to last long as...

Getting a formal second opinion would worry me especially if it differed from the original. Personally I would only actively seek a second opinion if I was in some way unhappy with the first, but that is just my personal thinking. I would also be concerned about souring the relationship that I...

Welcome back.

This might be a very stupid question but why 4,2,4? Why not take 3mg every day? I keep a supply of 0.5, 1, 3 and 5mg pills so I can mix and match any dosage.

How is your blood pressure?