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am I exercising too much with a 4.3 ascending aortic aneurysm?
Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Feb 25 8:33pm | Replies (107)Comment receiving replies
Oh my gosh, it sounds like what I' ve gone through many times since getting the mach.valve in 2003.
Luckily I'm a very pro-active patient! So I go into every situation loaded with questions, after I've read up on whatever is going on, First!
But obviously when its a sudden decision or an emergency, that doesn't help!
Coumadin RULES my life, as I'm sure it does your's too!
I will never understand why nothing has been done in regards to research, for finding a better way to control blood thickness or thinners, for Mech. Valve patients.
Mine RARELY stays in range, because everything we eat or take, can affect it! Even after 23 years, I'm never suprised when I test, and its too high or low!
And I aree with you abt. diff.reactions to the size of our aneurysm's, from diff.members of our cardiology teams! And that's maddening because we, as the patient's, are clearly anxious about having an enlargement in the 1st place, and they throw numbers around like its no big deal!🤷♀️😡
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@patti1416 I just read an article written by a police officer as I was one back in the day. He woke up in the middle of the night with mild chest pains and he ignored it figuring it was just heartburn. He briefly tried to get back to sleep but the pain was getting more intense. He got up and went to the bathroom and collapsed. His wife found him and called 911. When he got to the hospital they rushed him to the trauma unit of the hospital. His aneurysm had burst.
He ended up having 2 strokes and they had to paddle him twice to restart his heart. The hospital had to do many procedures to try to keep him alive although they weren’t sure if he was going to survive.
He ended up in the ICU and it took almost two months before he was released to rehab as his right arm didn’t work. He wanted to be able to resume being a police officer but his right arm had to work perfectly in order to qualify for the ability to use his sidearm. I will tell you that he is back to being an officer. He said that we should never take chest pains lightly and go to the hospital promptly.
He is ok now but the two strokes still haunt him as he still shakes at times. Good advice even though I always write off my occasional mild chest pains. It is a happy ending story.