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Vadim Great stuff. My resting pulse rate has mostly stayed in the low 90s. I sure would love to see that drop to my pre surgery levels in the 60s. Today is 3 weeks for me.

Good question Barron. Monday coming up I go back to see the surgon. That will be one day shy of 4 weeks post op. Excercise is a big question on my list. Right now were looking at 4 days of rain which is really going to cut into my walking.

So I guess compared to most mine are pretty mild.

So the night sweats seem to be tapering off. My primary care physician has had me on antibiotics chasing an infection that has been causing me to run a low fever. Seems to be working.

Tabitha, Welcome and ask as many questions as you like. We have people just a few weeks post op and people with much more experience. I know that right now you must be mentally exhausted. The entire month of January just wore me out. And now I'm 2 and a half weeks post op and feeling amazingly...

Keep raising that bar. I got 2 walks in at 1 mile each today. Sure helps to have good weather. It would be tough to have surgery smack in the middle of winter. I guess you'd need a treadmill or exercise bike.

What a show off. I suppose your having sex already too (just kidding). Rock on buddy. Love to see it. I just checked my walk from yesterday and it was 1.1 miles. Gonna try to do that twice today.

Laura, My opinion (and it's just my opinion) is that if you can do 10 or 12 reps without a lot of grunt you are probably OK. I plan to use that as my general rule when I get in the gym. But watch any chest exercise unless your sternum is fully healed. You can always start with a lighter dumbell...

Vadim, Wow lots of stuff there but not to bad. I was on day 11 before my INR hit 2.3. You'll get there. Better to come up slow than to risk over shooting and going high. My wife had to give me a Lovinox shot twice a day until my numbers came up. I think the anti-coag folks are used to dealing...

So this morning after taking a shower I stopped to catch my breath after drying off. I thought I heard the water dripping. It was me. Karla, I have the same valve and I do have the click but no thud. I'm sure your Dr. would have said something it didn't sound right.

Vidhya, Hopefully you are 2 weeks post op today and Rajesh is doing well. My surgery was March 20th also. Please start a new thread in the post op section to tell us how he's doing. Gary

Good point Greg. We need a note or something to encourage the people that were just diagnosed to go ahead and post in the per op section.

Got 2 good walks in today. No cardio issues or shortness of breath. The only issues seemed more related to eleven days on not moving around much.

Anybody find that they now wake up sweating in the middle of the nigh. Since I got home I wake up sweating or at least kind of clammy. The house is not hot and the blankets aren't heavier then I usually use. It just seems like my internal thermostat is off a little. Gary

Not walking a mile yet but I did just walk around the block for the first time. Funny I felt it more in my hip joints than any where else.

I was on Atenolol at one point and the pharmacist warned about it causing ED even in the small dose I was taking. I never had any problem with it. Funny how BBs seem to effect different people differently.

I'm on metoprolol myself and sure hope to get off of it as soon as possible. I would like to be back to light lifting and cardio after 8 weeks. We'll see how that goes. The other impression I'm getting about metoprolol is that it won't be doing my sex life any good either.

Hi All, So I discovered this forum the other day. I had AVR with ascending aorta on March 20th. I came home Monday afternoon and I can't believe the progress that I am making and how much better I feel. I was first diagnosed about 18 months ago and the doctor sort of made it sound like it was...

Hi Vadim, New guy here I just joined the forum. Found it while sitting around at home recovering from valve and aortic root replacement. I had my surgery on March 20th at the Kaiser hospital in San Francisco. I was going to say that I hoped your recovery goes as good as mine but you would have...