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Thank you very much. :)

I'm also having my surgery on the 30th. Looks like we're surgery buddies. :P ;)

Hello again. :) I met with my surgeon a few days ago and his personal opinion was that I would be better off with a mechanical valve. He told me that I probably won't be able to hear it, it's mostly the aortic valves that you can hear, and since mine is the mitral valve I shouldn't be able to...

Yeah, that makes no sense! Maybe there's a risk or something holding them back. No idea. Sure, I'll add you on Facebook. :)

I'm not sure. I was just recently transferred over to the adult side and have only met with my cardiologist and surgeon once. My leaky valve is causes by a rare type of vasculitis so, I think my doctor knows more about the vasculitis than other heart defects. I will ask next time I'm there.

I will for sure talk about it with my doctors. My surgeon actually never recommended anything, he told me to think about what I wanted and at the next visit he could tell me his opinion if I wanted. He had already told me about the children stuff. That is horrible. Why wouldn't they tell her...

I was leaning towards mechanical so much and I was sure I was going to go with it, but my mind still wasn't at ease. But I think I'm going to go with tissue for the first 10 years at least. Ahh, I feel better now and think this is the right decision, I will absolutely talk with my surgeon...

This sounds like so much information. I really don't know if I want kids yet, or to have my own, or anything. I thinking I should go with a tissue valve for now and by the time it needs to be replaced I would have my mind made up. Say, if I have a tissue valve and have had my children, could...

I will add that to my list of questions to ask my surgeon. I will also search that on this forum. Thank you. :)

Yes, I am a female. Sorry, I should have specified! :p As for children, I am only 18 and childbirth has always freaked me out and I have always said I'd adopt kids, but obviously my mind might change as I grow older, though. My surgeon says that he's had a lot of patients who have had...

I'm 18 and my surgeon was also thinking about repairing my mitral valve. It's not something that needs to be fixed ASAP, but since they're fixing my aorta they wanted to fix the valve too. I asked him what the chances were of it becoming leaky again. He said that there's a small chance, but...

Hi everyone. I am new to this forum and it has been a help, I read through all of these comments and stories and it's helped me make up my mind a bit. I'm 18 and going for a mitral valve replacement soon. My surgeon told me the mechanical should last the rest of my life so I immediately...