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Your comment about the lack of info on warfarin rang a bell for me too.....I have a tissue valve, and the surgeon told me on the day before the operation that I would take warfarin for 6 weeks post op. When I got home, having been discharged from hospital, there was no warfarin in my bag of...

Post op weight restrictions? I wasn't given any. I got given a big bag of meds and left the hospital! Obviously I'm not so daft (well at least I hope not!) to think that I could/should attempt to lift heavy objects etc, but I wasn't given any direct instructions. Given I struggle to open the...

Hello everyone! I'm two weeks post surgery tomorrow and thought I would post my account of my experience. I had AVR at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK. I was admitted to hospital the day before surgery, for pre-op tests. I just had an ECG, blood test and test for MRSA, so given I went...

Good luck today Heather Anne. I will be thinking of you and look forward to comparing notes about our recovery! Thanks everyone for your good wishes, it is very much appreciated.

So finally I qualify for this forum! I'm not a regular poster here, but have been checking in regularly over the past 3 months since I found out surgery was imminent. I'm very glad to have read about other people's experiences, and hope to provide an update after the operation so that other...

Thank you everyone for your anecdotes and advice - it is all very useful and very much appreciated. I had my MRI yesterday, and now have just a few weeks to to until I meet the surgeon, so I will update again at that stage. Adrienne - I haven't my kids looked at to see if either of them have a...

Thanks for your response Steve - very much appreciated. I did actually call my cardiologist and expressed my concerns about being rushed to surgery due to my comments about pregnancy. She told me that her opinion would be the same regardless - as you have said above - that the valve has narrowed...

Hello everyone! Just a little in the way of background first of all. I joined this site over three years ago when I was told by the chap doing my MRI that I would need valve replacement within 6-12 months due to my BAV. When I saw my cardiologist it became clear that I had been misinformed, my...

I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to all the very helpful people who have posted on this forum. I discovered the forum a couple of days ago, and have been lurking reading your posts and learning a lot. I'm afraid I am not very clued up at the moment so reading info on here has been...