Post Ascending Aortic Aneurysm surgery, did anyone do yoga breathing?

Posted by bignelie @bignelie, Jan 2 11:29am

Hey. So I am now 3.5 months post op David proceedure and started getting back into the swing of exercise things slowly. I notice I can feel my new root and ascending Aorta sometimes. It was all the time the first few weeks post surgery but now it has died down.

Except for 4/4/4 breathing and primarily on the inhale. When I take a deep breath filling belly and lungs, I am almost every time feel my new Aorta and find it weird. I assume once I get further along it might go away but wonder if this is due to the new Aorta properties of staying the same size always.

Has anyone else experience this?

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houston13 | @houston13 | Jan 2 12:43pm

Hi, I’m my case after my surgery (OH with a Dacron graft in my ascending aorta) for a while I could “hear” my heart beat, especially if I was in a very quiet place (bathroom, etc). Very weird feeling.

I asked my cardiologist and he told me that was normal in a lot of people, as blood flows through the graft the new material vibrates differently from the natural tissue and that change in vibration frequency can be felt/ “heard”, it goes away with time, months later I stopped hearing it.

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