← Return to Aortic Valve Replacement with TAVR: What is it like?

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Hi @yongy and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect.
@wisco50 and @davej have discussed TAVR here in this conversation so I moved your post here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/just-diagnosed-with-aortic-stenosis/ so that you can connect with them.
Are they planning on putting her on Proton Pump Inhibitors? Though it caused stomach issues, has it help her heart issues?

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they thought it was her heart (new TAVR) having problems but it was not it was just 10 months of baby aspirin that caused stomach and esophagus erosion and GERD and terrible chest pains. They put her on enteric coated aspirin but I read where aspirin is just plain bad and even if it is coast because it can cause problems in the small intestines and it still can cause problems once in the blood system. It seems baby aspirin is universal for to help stop clotting but it is all they have even if it causes problems. I read where pine bark extract works just has good as aspirin to help prevent clotting. She never really had heart problems like closed veins or arteries, or heart attacks, etc. just the Aorta valve problem and that the TAVR solved that problem. I do not think she needs any aspirin. Yes she is on the inhibitor plus I give her apple cider vinegar to help reduce the acid and she now sleeps on a bed that raises to help reduce gerd at night and do not eat later the three hours before going to bed. She would not need all of this if it was not for the aspirin causing the problem in the first place. Thanks for asking.