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@dixiemisty

Hi, Dr's told me basically the same as you. Mine is 4.2 cm and suggested surgery at 4.8 cm since I'm only 5 foot tall.

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Yeah all the cardiologists I've had over the last two decades have told me that once it gets over 5.0 to consider surgery but there are risk factors with that. I just try to keep my blood pressure down and I can't do any aerobics or anything that gets my heart rate up above about 140 beats a minute because it does them put pressure on the aneurysm.

I posted the other day about my aneurysm and about the doctor saying it's hereditary and I was hoping somebody else would have commented back to me regarding that matter because it's strange that an aneurysm would be hereditary and how would they know that anyhow? I never got anybody to respond back about that issue.