I had my Aortic valve replaced and a triple bypass in July last year 2023, aged 53, I remember being up and about straight after the op, trailing my heart bleed tubes around. A massive thank you to all at Warrington cardiac care unit and those at Liverpool heart and chest unit.
I had my heart surgery done in March and I was super confused when I woke up. First thing I can remember is a loud clicking sound in my head and a super sore throat. My surgery didn’t go according to plan, original plan was to fix my mitral valve and my aorta. But my aorta kept tearing so they had to put in an artificial valve and root. Then I had internal bleeding and had to go back into surgery. I wasn’t aware of any of this and was confused when I was waking up and it was Wednesday morning not Tuesday evening. So I was sedated for almost 24hrs, like I said really confused and my throat was killing me. I kept telling the nurse I felt like I was choking and they said it was because I had the breathing tube in for so long. Finally I convinced them to look in my throat and to their surprise my “uvula” was swollen up and choking me. They quickly sprayed it with something and it felt better pretty quickly. So after that little hiccup things went pretty well not perfect but I had a pretty rough surgery nearly 12 hours in the operating room. The staff at the hospital were amazing and pretty much babied me. I feel like I bounced back fairly quickly, I went home on day 6 instead of day 8 like they had thought. So this is just a small snippet of my experience. Now I’m back to work and working on building back my strength. Thanks for sharing your story. Good luck and good health!
I had open heart surgery 1 year ago and I still remember the breathing tube and how I felt like I was choking . I had mine in until the next morning. Other than that I never had any pain only took pain medicine a couple days.
Had my open heart surgery on 12/18/23 & returned home 12/23/23. Today is 12/28/23 & I can't believe it's over. I kept thinking, "How am I going to get through all of this?". The hospital was rough bc I had 3 chest tubes in the sternum area & a tube out of my neck. My BP was staying too low, so they put a temporary pacemaker on me, and that was more wires to deal with. So, if you moved, you felt the incision pain plus the wires & 3 chest tubes. The second worst thing was the constant in & out of nurses, passed, nursing assistants, doctors, etc...some taking BP, others giving meds, another xray, blood work, etc. It was so good to go home & sleep 10 hours straight with no one bothering me.
Hope you are both doing great. I go in early Monday morning to have my bicuspid aortic valve replaced. I had symptoms pop up in big way Dec '23. I was fully diagnosed by the end of Jan. I've been having symptoms for years but always attributed them to other things. Funny how obvious it is now but that's neither here nor there. Good luck in your recovery and I'll be joining you guys real soon. I look forward to being more able bodied as I've grown very accustomed to things being very difficult physically. I'm only 46, and I'll really being going strong when I'm all healed up. Take care of yourselves fellas!
I had the TAVAR procedure . No opening up my chest. They just went up my groin to my heart and deployed the new Aortic vale. No pain what so ever and wasn't even knocked out for the procedure (That's what I wanted) . I was out of hospital the next day.. A easy procedure for me to endure, and when the valve wears out I can have the same procedure (Valve in a valve it's called)...
@@PhillipFreeman1 Yep your right.. It's normally done on old people (I was younger 67) who either too frail for open heart surgery (Because of their age) or the don't have the right anatomy, or artery disease.. I had tests to see if I was a candidate which I was.. Oh and if your valve is too small then it can't be done (smallest valve 23mm ) my is 29mm..
OH it's been 1 year after my TAVAR procedure and I'm doing fine (I never did have any symptoms from my bicuspid valve even thought my Aortic valve was in bad shape)... I never knew that I had a bicuspid valve till a heart murmur turned up 15 years ago...
I had a mechanical arortic valve replacement at the end of May this year (2024), and I don't remember a lot about the wake-up process. I vaguely remember the breathing tube being removed but can't remember feeling anything. The next thing I can remember was having a drink and a sandwich about 2 hours later. This was about 4 pm. I went to 'step down' around lunchtime the following day.
Today is 9/28/2024. How are you doing today? Hope all is well. I'm 76 and due for either a tavr or savr to repair severe aortic stenosis. I'm frightened.
@tedrzepski3789 I'm doing great. Went back to work a month ago and virtually no symptoms. A slight muscle pain every now and then (I had the full, open chest, AVR), but otherwise no problem. I know it can be a bit scary going into the surgery, but there really is nothing to worry about. I look at it like this worrying isn't going to change any outcomes, so no point worrying. Take every day as it comes and get through 1 day at a time at the beginning. I was going to wish you 'good luck' but thankfully, luck is not a factor! Hope all goes well, take it easy. 👍
Thank you for sharing your experience and so happy that you are well. the icu details are very helpful as my husband will be going through this very soon and I needed to know what to expect how to support him and insist hospital allow me to stay w him.. for some reason hospital has a no overnight stay w patients icu or other?? So upsetting and unsettling
I startle woke as soon as they started to bring me back. I remember fighting but still half asleep and hearing them. They were able to pull the tube and thankfully I was breathing OK. Definitely a scary moment
I appreciate the info Jeff. I'm 55 y/o and have to decide between a TAVR or Artificial Valve and decide this Thursday. Thinking TAVR as my best option but we'll see what they say on Thursday!
I'm waiting on my surgery date. Half of me is afraid, the other Half is at peace. I was detected a septal defect. I'm a adult due to the fact that is big they will have to go thru the chest that's my scary part. Hope you doing much better Thank you for sharing
On 1 June 1994 I had the same surgery, but laid in ICU for several days. I see you half sitting up in a chair with your head on a ??? Did it feel like a MACK truck hit you?
Absolutely. They got me out of bed 24 hours after surgery. It wasn't a fun process to get up, but moving helped overall. The chair was a relief in the ICU over the bed.
I wasn't initially because my rhythm was good in the hospital. I started noticing what turned out to be Vtach 3 months after surgery and didn't get the diagnosis until 5 months after surgery. It was a rough 2 months not knowing what exactly was going on. I was put on the beta blocker at that point and haven't had the issue again.
In the hospital, I only really slept after pain meds. It took a couple of weeks for me to get back to a decent night of sleep. Hang in there, it gets better.
Had Dilaudid after stomach surgery two years ago. However I developed Pink Urine Syndrome and my liver enzymes were in triple digits when I was discharged and I was back in the ER that night with heart palpitations. All from pain meds.
I had it two nights in a row. It definitely knocks you out, but I found that I didn’t move once I fell asleep and if you are sitting the wrong way, you will wake up in a lot of pain. I stopped taking it. That neck and constipate you very badly.
telling your experience of terror at having the breathing tube in when waking after surgery,just makes me think its such a small price to pay for an operation that is saving your life,no one should sit here and make a drama out of a life saving procedure unpleasent or otherwise.your tone is downbeat and not one of relief and joy at being given an extension on your life span
I had my Aortic valve replaced and a triple bypass in July last year 2023, aged 53, I remember being up and about straight after the op, trailing my heart bleed tubes around. A massive thank you to all at Warrington cardiac care unit and those at Liverpool heart and chest unit.
That's awesome! Thanks for watching
I had my heart surgery done in March and I was super confused when I woke up. First thing I can remember is a loud clicking sound in my head and a super sore throat. My surgery didn’t go according to plan, original plan was to fix my mitral valve and my aorta. But my aorta kept tearing so they had to put in an artificial valve and root. Then I had internal bleeding and had to go back into surgery. I wasn’t aware of any of this and was confused when I was waking up and it was Wednesday morning not Tuesday evening. So I was sedated for almost 24hrs, like I said really confused and my throat was killing me. I kept telling the nurse I felt like I was choking and they said it was because I had the breathing tube in for so long. Finally I convinced them to look in my throat and to their surprise my “uvula” was swollen up and choking me. They quickly sprayed it with something and it felt better pretty quickly. So after that little hiccup things went pretty well not perfect but I had a pretty rough surgery nearly 12 hours in the operating room. The staff at the hospital were amazing and pretty much babied me. I feel like I bounced back fairly quickly, I went home on day 6 instead of day 8 like they had thought. So this is just a small snippet of my experience. Now I’m back to work and working on building back my strength. Thanks for sharing your story. Good luck and good health!
Wow, you've been through a lot. I'm glad that you are doing well. Thanks for watching!
I had open heart surgery 1 year ago and I still remember the breathing tube and how I felt like I was choking . I had mine in until the next morning. Other than that I never had any pain only took pain medicine a couple days.
The breathing tube was pretty bad in the moment for sure. Thanks for watching, I hope you are back to 100% in your recovery.
I am having open heart surgery in 1 week. Thanks for your videos.
I hope all goes well. You'll be on the road to recovery before you know it!
Had my open heart surgery on 12/18/23 & returned home 12/23/23. Today is 12/28/23 & I can't believe it's over. I kept thinking, "How am I going to get through all of this?". The hospital was rough bc I had 3 chest tubes in the sternum area & a tube out of my neck. My BP was staying too low, so they put a temporary pacemaker on me, and that was more wires to deal with. So, if you moved, you felt the incision pain plus the wires & 3 chest tubes. The second worst thing was the constant in & out of nurses, passed, nursing assistants, doctors, etc...some taking BP, others giving meds, another xray, blood work, etc. It was so good to go home & sleep 10 hours straight with no one bothering me.
hope you get well soon.@@RG-hf4et
Hope you are both doing great. I go in early Monday morning to have my bicuspid aortic valve replaced. I had symptoms pop up in big way Dec '23. I was fully diagnosed by the end of Jan. I've been having symptoms for years but always attributed them to other things. Funny how obvious it is now but that's neither here nor there. Good luck in your recovery and I'll be joining you guys real soon. I look forward to being more able bodied as I've grown very accustomed to things being very difficult physically. I'm only 46, and I'll really being going strong when I'm all healed up. Take care of yourselves fellas!
Wish you the best...I've had this surgery...you'll get through it😊
I'm having avr very soon. Thanks for this video.
I hope it all goes well for you. You'll be in recovery mode before you know it.
I had the TAVAR procedure . No opening up my chest. They just went up my groin to my heart and deployed the new Aortic vale. No pain what so ever and wasn't even knocked out for the procedure (That's what I wanted) . I was out of hospital the next day.. A easy procedure for me to endure, and when the valve wears out I can have the same procedure (Valve in a valve it's called)...
TAVR is a great option for many people. It wasn't on the table for me, I'm glad you are doing well.
Yes lots of different factors. Age, anatomy need for other surgery (eg mitral as well). Size of annulus and lifelong treatment etc gets complicated
Amazing
@@PhillipFreeman1 Yep your right.. It's normally done on old people (I was younger 67) who either too frail for open heart surgery (Because of their age) or the don't have the right anatomy, or artery disease.. I had tests to see if I was a candidate which I was.. Oh and if your valve is too small then it can't be done (smallest valve 23mm ) my is 29mm..
OH it's been 1 year after my TAVAR procedure and I'm doing fine (I never did have any symptoms from my bicuspid valve even thought my Aortic valve was in bad shape)... I never knew that I had a bicuspid valve till a heart murmur turned up 15 years ago...
I had a mechanical arortic valve replacement at the end of May this year (2024), and I don't remember a lot about the wake-up process. I vaguely remember the breathing tube being removed but can't remember feeling anything. The next thing I can remember was having a drink and a sandwich about 2 hours later. This was about 4 pm. I went to 'step down' around lunchtime the following day.
That's great. Everyone's experience varies, I'm glad yours sounds pretty smooth. I hope you are doing well.
Tomorrow is my husband's AVR surgery...I'm praying for him and wish a fast recovery
Today is 9/28/2024. How are you doing today? Hope all is well. I'm 76 and due for either a tavr or savr to repair severe aortic stenosis. I'm frightened.
@tedrzepski3789 I'm doing great. Went back to work a month ago and virtually no symptoms. A slight muscle pain every now and then (I had the full, open chest, AVR), but otherwise no problem. I know it can be a bit scary going into the surgery, but there really is nothing to worry about. I look at it like this worrying isn't going to change any outcomes, so no point worrying. Take every day as it comes and get through 1 day at a time at the beginning.
I was going to wish you 'good luck' but thankfully, luck is not a factor!
Hope all goes well, take it easy. 👍
Thank you for sharing your experience and so happy that you are well. the icu details are very helpful as my husband will be going through this very soon and I needed to know what to expect how to support him and insist hospital allow me to stay w him.. for some reason hospital has a no overnight stay w patients icu or other?? So upsetting and unsettling
We were fortunate that our hospital allowed it. Just know that you may need to be his voice and push for things in the hospital. Hope all goes well
I startle woke as soon as they started to bring me back. I remember fighting but still half asleep and hearing them. They were able to pull the tube and thankfully I was breathing OK. Definitely a scary moment
Glad to hear. Yes it was a scary feeling for me even though I knew it was coming.
I appreciate the info Jeff. I'm 55 y/o and have to decide between a TAVR or Artificial Valve and decide this Thursday. Thinking TAVR as my best option but we'll see what they say on Thursday!
I hope all goes well for you! Recovery is just around the corner.
I'm waiting on my surgery date. Half of me is afraid, the other Half is at peace. I was detected a septal defect. I'm a adult due to the fact that is big they will have to go thru the chest that's my scary part. Hope you doing much better Thank you for sharing
Thank you for the well wishes. I hope your procedure goes well. My sternum didn't cause me any issues, hoping yours will be the same.
How are you doing now
@BaitedCastaways I feel better then ever.🙏 had to stay home for 3 month stood at the hospital about 5 day's everything went well thank God
Jeff did they have to split your sternum for your procedure? Thanks for posting
Yes, I had a full sternotomy. Honestly, that part never bothered me and has healed up nicely.
Have you thought of having the Ross procedure?
I looked into it, but my surgeon felt like the mechanical valve was the best option for me and I was happy with that decision.
On 1 June 1994 I had the same surgery, but laid in ICU for several days. I see you half sitting up in a chair with your head on a ??? Did it feel like a MACK truck hit you?
Absolutely. They got me out of bed 24 hours after surgery. It wasn't a fun process to get up, but moving helped overall. The chair was a relief in the ICU over the bed.
@@bicuspidaorticvalvereplacement I couldn't get up for 11 days. I counted them.
Were you on a beta blocker after surgery?when did V tach first appear?
I wasn't initially because my rhythm was good in the hospital. I started noticing what turned out to be Vtach 3 months after surgery and didn't get the diagnosis until 5 months after surgery. It was a rough 2 months not knowing what exactly was going on. I was put on the beta blocker at that point and haven't had the issue again.
I don't remember the breathing tune at all. Lol! Lucky me!
That's awesome. At almost a year out, it's a vague memory, but at the moment it wasn't fun.
How old were you at the time of surgery?
I was 39 when I had my surgery.
Did you sleep at all?
In the hospital, I only really slept after pain meds. It took a couple of weeks for me to get back to a decent night of sleep. Hang in there, it gets better.
I must be the first to be kicked out of ICU from delirium. I remember waking up ok but after that it was all down hill for long I don’t know
They gave me a teddy bear for a pillow remember hugging it like a little kid would
I'm sorry to hear that. I know there are varying ways people react to the drugs used.
How are you doing now pappy ? Has the delirium lessened resolved ? Thanks for posting.
@@johnb4183 strange it was two years ago today I had the operation
Me toooo😂😂😅😅
Dilauded is a miracle drug. Best thing for pain, that’s for sure.
100% Once they gave that to me in the ICU, I was good to go.
Had Dilaudid after stomach surgery two years ago. However I developed Pink Urine Syndrome and my liver enzymes were in triple digits when I was discharged and I was back in the ER that night with heart palpitations. All from pain meds.
I had it two nights in a row. It definitely knocks you out, but I found that I didn’t move once I fell asleep and if you are sitting the wrong way, you will wake up in a lot of pain. I stopped taking it. That neck and constipate you very badly.
telling your experience of terror at having the breathing tube in when waking after surgery,just makes me think its such a small price to pay for an operation that is saving your life,no one should sit here and make a drama out of a life saving procedure unpleasent or otherwise.your tone is downbeat and not one of relief and joy at being given an extension on your life span
Thanks for watching. I wouldn't say I was making drama, this was a huge event and I'm just sharing my experience.