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I have a dissection in my entire aorta. I also have questions...
Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Sep 2 9:22am | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
Wayne to be an overachiever! I also dissected up into my left carotid. I assume you are on anti coagulates and metoprolol. These will help with the risk of blood clots, and rate and pumping strength of your heart.
Of course they come with other issues but....
As for the worrying part. I am anxiety ridden and on high alert for every skip of my heart and little pain. My "first" surgery was 16 years ago. 16 years of angst over something I have zero control over. "they" keep telling me to enjoy my life and keep up with checkups etc I am now in the same place as everybody else who's alive. I wish it was that easy.
Obviously everyone handles things differently. My hope for you is that you can manage to balance "happy to be alive" with "the sword of Damocles". 16 years and I'm still trying and now dealing with older people problems lol. (I was 48 when this adventure started). I look around at the general population and the pleathera of walkers/oxygen tanks/limps/shortness of breath etc etc etc. The difference between us and them is the wakeup call we got of our mortality,
Wow! I didn't expect to get all Socrates on you! Sorry 'bout that! Best of luck, always here to help (?)
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Wayne. Anticoags because of the AVR. Metoprolol at first but then changed to Bisoprolol, and then they laddered up the bisop and the perindopril to max dosage. I was also having palpitations but these stopped when they increased the bisop to max level. currently laddering perind until I hit max just short of renal impairment. And I have a statin for arterial strengthening.
I was anxious during the palpitations but these have gone and now I just feel almost completely normal. Almost.
I think I have the elephant trunk but I haven't seen the surgeon since the morning of surgery.
I don't know how they are going to stent the entire aorta.
And Socrates is fine. An old friend actually.
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Get as Socrates as you like. You've been through so much and at such a young age. No wonder you're anxious. One of my ex-husbands (now deceased) used to say, the biggest difference between people is between the sick and the well. An aneurysm isn't exactly an illness or a sickness, but it certainly does put you in a different category from 90 yr. olds running marathons.