Just reading your posts at coming off metoprolol, I was put on the drug sometime after my first or second surgery (had cardiac trauma resulting in tamponade), and got a kidney infection which was the...
Hi everyone! I am going on 2 years post pericardectomy and it still hurts damn near everyday when I breathe. Sometimes worse than other times, but none the less painful. So much at times I know not...
Friscofive, You sound like your husband has better doctors than I did! Yes, I did have a bruise over my heart! But after the 2 -3 months of initial heart pain, ( I thought my heart was bruised), the...
Hi Boog! Thanks for the sympathetic post! I don't know that I would call the pain pericardial. I suspect it is more from trauma of the surgery, my surgeon who I don't know if he ever preformed it...
Hi JKR217! Since you said you had an echo and it checked out ok, I don't know. Sorry. I was injured which caused my pericarditis although the dr.s lied and called it viral for a whole year until I...
Hi all! I think you are doing the right thing by going to a cleveland or mayo clinic. I think it was the first time my doc ever did a pericardectomy and I don't thiink mine was necessary. I tried to...
Thanks for your post Sherwood. The construction if there was any, I believe was simply from the blood( injury to the pericardium) and water that were flowing against the heart and trapped in between...
Hi Sherwood, Thank you for your reply. I guess I did not explain myself well enough. I had trauma, physical nature, which caused blood and water to slowly leak in between the pericardium and heart....
Hi! I am new to the site and have posted yesterday. I was wondering what tests you had as I didn't have any to determine cause. I guess because I knew my pericarditis was from trauma to my chest,...
From everything I am reading those of you who had the pericardectomy had alot of problems beforehand. I had none other than those related to the damage he inflicted on my pericardium. I had no fever....
Hi everyone! I thought maybe a new thread would be helpful as I really need to find a support group for what I have gone through. Has anyone known of a doctor preforming a total pericardectomy which...
Hi everyone! I had a pericardectomy a year and 1/2 ago. My husband hit me in the chest and damaged my pericardium. I went a year and a half before seeking medical attention. I thought he had just...