Hi everyone, I havn't checked in for ages and just wanted to give an update. It is now 7 months since my pericardectomy and I feel great. All the awful beathlessness and choking feelings have gone...
Hi Spugsie and a big welcome to the forum. I understand how it feels when no one else knows how this condition affects you. You can have all the support in the world, but still need to cope with it...
Hi Sherwood and thanks for your well wishes as ever. Next on the agenda is an 80's pop festival thats going to be held locally with people like Paul young ,Midge Ure, Toya and oh do you remember Rick...
Hi Heartaches, Yes I do still have discomfort when I cough sneeze or even breath really deeply. However I feel well in myself. Before surgery I felt that my heart had a building brick on top of it...
Hi Boog and Sherwood, not visited here for a while as have been very busy, just living!! but the difference is that I now have the energy and enthusiasm to do what I want. Been to things like our...
Hello Boog thankyou for your much needed advice about magnesium, I will definitely try it starting from tomorrow. It would be great to get off the tablets as you will know they all have their side...
Hi Boog & Sherwood, thanks for responding, I know it is early yet to expect things to be better, I will try to relax, I do worry a lot. Sherwood I do feel better in myself and sometimes even feel...
Hi Sherwood and Boog, I had my post-op appointment yesterday and got to see the Surgeon and the Cardiologist together. My echo showed mild Right ventricular disfunction, mild tricuspid regurgitation...
Boog thats wonderful that you no longer need your asthma inhaler, and that you have lost some weight on a gluten free diet. It must take a lot of commitment to stick to as so many foods have gluten...
Hi Boog thankyou so much for responding. Perhaps I am being impatient,it is only 6 weeks since my surgery and i've probably still got a lot of healing and rehabilitation to do. Thankyou for your...
Sorry for the delay, i've just got rid of my high temp at nearly 5 weeks post-op ! I feel a lot better generally and I have lost that spaced out feeling. I'm also driving which helps a lot. Went for...
Just to say welcome to the forum Poocky, you will find great support here and realise that you and your husband are not alone. He has been through so much already with all his effusions, thank...
Boog did you also have a high temp post-op. Was colchicine the only anti-inflammitory used or did you need steroids as well? Spangle x...
Thanks Sherwood and Boog. Boog I was glad to here that you also had to take colchicine for a while after sugery and that things eventually settled down. The doctors are at a bit of a loss as to why I...
Hi sherwood it's good to be back. I didn't need a bipass as I didn't have any blockages on angiogram. The only thing that is worrying me now is that I still feel feverish and generally flu like but...
HELLO EVERYONE I'M BACK. Well the past week has certainly been eventful, but Im home on paracetamol only for pain !! I have a bit of a temperature so I have to get my blood count repeated on Monday...
Thanks Boog and Karrie. Boog it was great to hear that you are now jogging again and have never felt better. Time is ticking on now I am still calm. I think it is because I am as prepared as I can...
Thanks Sherwood for all your support and I will remember about the fruit. I was told I would be in hospital for 7 to 10 days providing everything goes to plan. I'll check back in when I get home and...
Hi Carrie, my cardiologist described the operation as being a difficult one but the surgeon has given me a 5% mortality rate which dosen't sound bad to me. I can understand why your husband is so...
Hi Sherwood, the secretary rang today and my op date is next Friday 8th May. I go in the day before because of the length of the journey and the surgeon wants me to be as relaxed as possible. I can't...
Hi, I haven,t got lupus but I have had autoimmune disease in the past affecting my thyroid and my kidneys. I also had an autoimmune reaction to the pericarditis last year which has caused the...
Hi Sherwood it was great to here from you again. Its been an amazing day for me-here is how it started, I was having a routine thyroid check this morning and mentioned that I was about to have heart...
I do hope you guy's haven't gone away as i've actually got word to go for my pre-assessment Wednesday 29th of April. So things are finally happening. Please come back I need you! Spangles xx...
Thanks Nan and Sherwood for your support and encouragement. It's amazing how alone this condition makes you feel, and with the prospect of open heart surgery in the very near future it's scarey too....
Hi, I'm posting from the north of England and I am due to have a pericardiectomy in 6 to 8 weeks at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. I have CP from a viral illness after returning from holiday last...
Hello Everyone on the forum, I'm due to have a Pericardiectomy in 6 to 8 weeks time and I'm so glad I have found this community as I am a bit scared to say the least. I've been reading some of your...