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You're smashing it mate, keep it up!!

As for feeling rushed - you've gone to see a surgeon about something you want fixed, and fixed before it gets expensive for you, and he is offering to do that. That's what you asked for? If you had an issue with the plumbing in your house and the plumber said 'I can come sometime in March'...

Interesting. My max heart rate 2 years post op will only reach about 145 and frequently less and then I'm gasping for breath. I aspire to 170! I get dropped on hills by everyone, including women much larger than me who don't do much exercise, so it's definitely impacting me. Have you looked at...

Agree about the cost being a factor. My insurance thinks that echos and cardiologists should be much cheaper than they really are - I end up over $300 out of pocket for my echo and associated cardio visit. Considering I feel completely fine (and I'm training 10-12 hours a week for three sports...

Fair point - so I'd be keen to know, has anyone with a mech valve had something go wrong, without any symptoms to alert them?

I was thinking about this last night - if any of us had a knee reconstruction, would we be going back to see the surgeon once a year for the rest of our lives? No. We have heart reconstructions, why do we have to get that checked once a year for the rest of our lives? (And thx pellicle for...

My second OHS was 2011 so yes for the past two years I have been going annually - but only because my cardio makes me!! And I'd feel terrible if I disappointed him, he has been very good to me. Otherwise I think I would have gone to the first annual check up and then not bothered afterwards...

I'm probably a bad example as I went 9 years, then 7 years, without seeing a cardiologist before my OHS (I was supposed to go every year). My cardio now is on to me and gets his PA to schedule me in once a year. However when I move I reckon I'm unlikely to worry about the valve again as I...

You know what - I WOULD go back to work. I would have gone back a long time ago (I only took two weeks off my day job post-surgery). Here's why - you are currently sitting around thinking, and most likely paying very close attention to every little niggle, which you then have HEAPS of time to...

Woohoo well done Anthony! He's got HEAPS to look forward to now, tell him to be nice to the nurses and that I'm sending him good wishes from down under :-)

The cortisone is very localized though, it's not floating around your bloodstream interacting with anything. Do a Google search, and ask your doctor, but I read about this issue a while ago and if I remember correctly there was no interaction. Good luck!

Mine is the opposite to yours, funky at the bottom. I used a thing called Scar FX which is a silicone strip that sticks to you, that made the lumpy bits go down. Worth a shot. Congrats on your first year, enjoy the second!!!

Planning on being there a while pellicle? (This from a person who bought a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle of white swans on a dark lake, what was I thinking, and took two weeks to make the border - then gave up.) Back to the topic - for me personally, spending a week in pyjamas and robe was the...

Eep that's a bit unfair of him to drop that on you so soon before surgery! If you're not comfortable, just say no. Good luck for your surgery!!!

MrsBray and Mbeard, I hope you can both take comfort from reading these forums, as you will see (and I don't mean this in a bad way!) you're not that special . . . ;-) You're no doubt both shocked by your recent surprises but the good news is you have something not uncommon and doctors have...

Onx my 12km run felt awful but there were no other symptoms before the raging fever. And I self diagnosed flu and stayed home for three days before going to my gp , who rang my cardiologist, who said get in to hospital. That was Wednesday, Friday night they did a TEE, found the problem, and...

I had acute endocarditis two years ago, I went from running a 12km race to fever of 40C in a couple hours. I had an emergency redo of my AVR within a day and a half of them figuring out why I was so sick. In my case the bacteria had formed a 70mm thick carpet over my valve and caused an abcess...

Someone once told me that a lot of surgeons have a god complex and can be haughty and arrogant when dealing with patients - but we're not seeing them for their bedside manner, we're seeing them to get some plumbing work done. And while they're doing that, I don't care how arrogant my surgeon is...

This topic was discussed very recently - scroll through the post-surgery forum and you'll find it, and the heaps of responses :-) Edit: here's the thread: http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?42093-Medical-ID-s&highlight=medic+alert

I found sitting up straight, and standing, and walking, and lying flat were all totally fine. Any time I hunched over (thus 'compressing' my sternum) was a bit painful. But everyone is different and you'll sort it out post-op! BTW why do you want to sit in bed? That's what sick people do...