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Thank you for all your responses. My concern here is what is the cause of my chest pains. I want to stop taking the BP meds temporarily to see if the chest pains go away. I'll be happy to start taking them again and live with the chest pains knowing that the meds are the source of the pain...

I have been a member for while. I rarely post but I'm always lurking. My question is: Have you ever experienced chest pain in association with your blood pressure medication? My bicuspid aortic valve has been holding steady now for about 3 years at 1.2 cm2 with a peak gradinent of around...

Thank you all for your responses. I think what I am hearing is that the symptoms creep up so slowly that is difficult to recognize that they have become worse. It is only when you have had the surgery that you realize how symptomatic you had been. I sometimes wish that my aortic valve would...

I?ve been a member for over a year now. And I unfortunately do not contribute but I am always lurking. Now I have a couple of questions. I was diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis a little less than three years ago. And I have watched my Aortic Valve area shrink from 2.4 cm2 to 1.3 cm2. Every...

Bob and Burair. Thanks for all the info and web sites. I haven't been able to sit down and really go thru them yet but I will. Burair, its been awhile since I took fluid mechanics in college but I do recognize the continuity equation. I guess I'm going to have dig my old college text and...

I went in for a heart cath last Friday and received some good news. My aortic valve area was 1.5 sq cm instead of 1.2 sq cm calculated from my last echo. More importantly the pressure gradient was 15 mm Hg instead of the 38 mm Hg calculated in the echo. When I talked to my Cardiologist about...

Thanks to all for your kind greetings. Al, I'm thinking the same way your thinking. I pressing my cardiologist to get a heart cath and he is amiable to the idea. He has a surgeon in Sacramento that does RP's and he says he is very good. As soon as we do the heart cath the better we'll know...

Hi, my name's Michael and I only joined this site a couple days ago. I am very glad I discovered this site. It appears to have a whole lot of good information not mention a whole lot of good people. I was diagnosed with AS a little over a year and half ago. At the time my cardiologist said...