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Thank you so much for sharing this. They are doing a TEE on 9/18 and I think that the point of that might be to get more detailed info on the BAV? I think it took me a good 5 days to get over the shock of the word aneurism. And I'm just now starting to think about the other issues from the initial ECHO. Just considering I went from being a fairly healthy 45 yr old to this overnight is so overwhelming. Sorry if you have mentioned this in another thread but did you know about your BAV your whole life or find out as an adult?
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I believe everyone in this group was shocked to learn they had an aneurysm. I know I was. The word alone is enough to raise the BP, and mine went very high for about a week. That was scary. I'm 78, so I'm probably not as panicked as you are at 45. But at least you know now and can be monitored and fixed when the time comes. I'll have to decide whether to have major surgery or not, depending on how old I am by the time I need it. I'm 4.2 with a leaky value for now. My hope is to make it to 85 in one piece. After that, all bets are off.
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I found out I had it in 2011 when I had an echocardiogram provided by my company (I was living outside of the US so that didn’t stay in my health records), but at that time they did not mention an aneurysm and I completely forgot about the valve until they found my aneurysm while preparing me for leg fracture surgery in late 2019, i had my aneurysm repair surgery 3 months later