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Transplant anti-rejection medications. What's your advice?
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@scottij Hi and Welcome to connect. Congratulations on your Heart Transplant. Sounds like things are going well. I too am a Heart Transplant receipiant and I also live in Arizona. We have a few things in common we both got our hearts rather quickly mine was 5 days and it put me into early retirement. My transplant was in Jan 2018 and i had a few bumps in the road but not Heart associated. I seem to get virus rather easily but we got that under control now. I would guess you had your transplant at Mayo Phoenix? So its great to have another Heart Transplant patient there are not as many of use here on connect as with other organs.
Have a Blessed Day
Dana
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Dana, Thank you for reaching out. Indeed I had my transplant at Mayo Phoenix about 8 months after after failed valve surgery in Tucson. I agree the forum is dominated by the liver/kidney mafia (lol). That may make sense given the number of those surgeries vs ours. I have had a few Covid-19 scares that were just viral infections but otherwise I have been very healthy. Frankly I was hesitant to join the forum as I am not particularly good with whining. It just wasn't allowed in our household growing up. I only recently joined the Wednesday zoom calls led by the heart social workers and am learning to be more patient with others. That said, no whining probably brought me to the transplant as I apparently ignored at least two major heart attacks as indicated in the pathology on the old heart.
Time will tell if I stay on either forum. But then, I have a lot of time on my hands now so...
Best always,
s!
Scott Jensen