Well today at 8 weeks post op I had my first cup of coffee in 3 yrs. My doctor told me to quit drinking any form of caffeine because they seemed to make the arrhythmia worse at times. I also had a soda this week (not the Sierra mist kind). So the Maze they did really must have worked. I haven't had a single arrhythmia since the surgery. Before that I was having like 7-8 of them a day. I am very happy with this.
I go see the cardiologist next week for a follow up and and the routine chest xray. I am going to talk to him about the possibility of bringing in a pulmonologist because my SOB is worse with the diaphragm so high and sitting on my lung. A RN friend of mine listened to that lung last week and she can barely hear it. They "say" it should fall back into place in 3-6 months which I think is BS. I am really starting to get worried about it. I feel worse as far as SOB goes than I did before the surgery. I have only found one person on here that have had their diaphragm moved up during surgery so this isn't "normal" as they say. I will let ya all know what they say next week.
I go see the cardiologist next week for a follow up and and the routine chest xray. I am going to talk to him about the possibility of bringing in a pulmonologist because my SOB is worse with the diaphragm so high and sitting on my lung. A RN friend of mine listened to that lung last week and she can barely hear it. They "say" it should fall back into place in 3-6 months which I think is BS. I am really starting to get worried about it. I feel worse as far as SOB goes than I did before the surgery. I have only found one person on here that have had their diaphragm moved up during surgery so this isn't "normal" as they say. I will let ya all know what they say next week.
