Imminent re-operation of heart valve

[newarrior]

I also delved into the K2/D3 research and have been taking it for nearly 3 years daily. My experience has thus far been extraordinary, though I've made a significant amount of lifestyle changes along with the vitamins.

Roughly 3 years ago I was rediagnosed with severe aortic stenosis and a bicuspid valve. Today I have moderate Aortic stenosis trending towards mild.

3 years ago
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Last Imaging September 2023
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Can't say it's definitely due to the K2/D3, but something appears to be working. I've gone from "needing surgery probably within the next 6 months" to being offered annual instead of biannual imaging.

Perhaps the vitamin regiment just works differently on different people, or the quantity taken plays a large role. It'll be interesting to see if anything is ever definitively proven about it.

I just did some research myself yesterday and it looks like K2 D3 and M7 don't have any effect on slowing down aortic stenosis calcification or progression of the disease. However I've been on K2 and M7 for a while myself and I've seen what appears to be an almost slowing down or haulting of the disease as well. That could be from other things like taking high doses of statins being on a plant-based diet getting my ldls my total cholesterol and my triglycerides as well as my blood pressure super low plus consistent exercise no alcohol etc etc. Plus I take high doses of magnesium that I mix in water every day. But anyways none of this is proven to slow down bowel disease. I am going to start on a PC ks9 inhibitor next week as I've got high levels of LPA about 90 which is about triple the normal threshold. It's probably why I've got a heavily calcified tricuspid valve starting in my 40s and now in my early 60s it's really bad. I'm also in it peculiar situation like myself where I was showing severe as far back as September of 2022 but here we are in January of 2025 and I'm still showing moderate it's been confusing I'm getting different readings from different echocardiograms I even went back to the States and had an echo done there and they're not recommending surgery. Anyways all we can do is what we can do to try to hopefully slow the valve disease down. Interesting discussion regarding mechanical and bio prosthetic but that's for another day

 

[Mister_James]

Vitdoc is on point.
Your have every right to play Russian Roulette, it is your life. However, letting people understand that fears of meds, ticking and bio valve longevity are not as feared is not pressuring.
You could be the one 40 year old to go 20 years with bovine valve but that is serious exception. On the other hand, mechanical valves also may fail in under 5 years or you may have a bleed but those are exceptions for a 40 year old.
You can buy stocks, crypto, bonds or stash the money under your house. It is your money. We just talk about what makes sense when you are 40 vs 90.

 

[sandra]

I also delved into the K2/D3 research and have been taking it for nearly 3 years daily. My experience has thus far been extraordinary, though I've made a significant amount of lifestyle changes along with the vitamins.

Roughly 3 years ago I was rediagnosed with severe aortic stenosis and a bicuspid valve. Today I have moderate Aortic stenosis trending towards mild.

3 years ago
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Last Imaging September 2023
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Can't say it's definitely due to the K2/D3, but something appears to be working. I've gone from "needing surgery probably within the next 6 months" to being offered annual instead of biannual imaging.

Perhaps the vitamin regiment just works differently on different people, or the quantity taken plays a large role. It'll be interesting to see if anything is ever definitively proven about it.

This is really interesting and inspiring.
I had my surgery in March 2024. I had my original bovine valve (19mm) replaced with the Resilia inspiris bovine. I now have a 21mm. After my recovery and when I was off most medications (Amioderone etc) I recommenced taking K2, D3, Fish oil, Magnesium and COQ10. An interesting observation I had was that after my surgery I asked how much of a gradient my valve was when they operated (as they always do a TOE before starting the surgery). It was 36. I had been on the waiting list for surgery since Nov 2023. At that time my gradient was measured through a TOE, and a CT scan which both reported my gradient as 63. Prior to that it was 73 on the echocardiogram. So, how did my gradient go from 63 to 36 in the four months that I was on the wait list? I guess there is some variance in how accurate tests are, but this seems quite a lot. But I am not going to rule out that there was a possibility that the large doses of K2/D3 that I was taking might have helped. I really hope so

 

[newarrior]

I just did some research myself yesterday and it looks like K2 D3 and M7 don't have any effect on slowing down aortic stenosis calcification or progression of the disease. However I've been on K2 and M7 for a while myself and I've seen what appears to be an almost slowing down or haulting of the disease as well. That could be from other things like taking high doses of statins being on a plant-based diet getting my ldls my total cholesterol and my triglycerides as well as my blood pressure super low plus consistent exercise no alcohol etc etc. Plus I take high doses of magnesium that I mix in water every day. But anyways none of this is proven to slow down bowel disease. I am going to start on a PC ks9 inhibitor next week as I've got high levels of LPA about 90 which is about triple the normal threshold. It's probably why I've got a heavily calcified tricuspid valve starting in my 40s and now in my early 60s it's really bad. I'm also in it peculiar situation like myself where I was showing severe as far back as September of 2022 but here we are in January of 2025 and I'm still showing moderate it's been confusing I'm getting different readings from different echocardiograms I even went back to the States and had an echo done there and they're not recommending surgery. Anyways all we can do is what we can do to try to hopefully slow the valve disease down. Interesting discussion regarding mechanical and bio prosthetic but that's for another day

Sorry about the spelling errors especially bowel when it should have said valve. It does seem like once your valve starts getting heavily calcified there's no way to slow down reverse or halt the disease process. However if you've got high LPA PC ks9 inhibitor injections are the way to go every two weeks. Otherwise all the common sense things that you would do to prevent a heart attack would be the same things you might do to preserve your valve

 

[Teapotimus]

This is really interesting and inspiring.
I had my surgery in March 2024. I had my original bovine valve (19mm) replaced with the Resilia inspiris bovine. I now have a 21mm. After my recovery and when I was off most medications (Amioderone etc) I recommenced taking K2, D3, Fish oil, Magnesium and COQ10. An interesting observation I had was that after my surgery I asked how much of a gradient my valve was when they operated (as they always do a TOE before starting the surgery). It was 36. I had been on the waiting list for surgery since Nov 2023. At that time my gradient was measured through a TOE, and a CT scan which both reported my gradient as 63. Prior to that it was 73 on the echocardiogram. So, how did my gradient go from 63 to 36 in the four months that I was on the wait list? I guess there is some variance in how accurate tests are, but this seems quite a lot. But I am not going to rule out that there was a possibility that the large doses of K2/D3 that I was taking might have helped. I really hope so

There is variance between measurements, especially different modalities.

In my case my measurements haven't had large variance between data points. Rather, I have a linear decrease in gradient measurements and a corresponding linear increase in AVA.

I addition I've gotten into the best shape of my life during this whole 'waiting room' ordeal which makes sense based on my imaging. At this point I've gone to annual imaging and give significantly less thought to this condition than I did 4 years ago, when surgery was imminent.

I still don't know what to attribute the reversal of my condition to, but I like to think the vitamin regiment has played a part in it. I will say I've spoken with a couple other people who have had similar outcomes, for what it's worth.