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Are you saying that once I get my Aortic valve replacement that I'll be less anxious?

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• JohnBooty 4y ago
  Most importantly: best wishes. I'm sure you've been through a looooot. I hope there are brighter days ahead. Does your current valve situation cause an elevated heart rate, presumably because your heart is is compensating for not pumping as efficiently as it should? I had a different issue and I'm extremely unqualified to have an opinion here, but based on my personal experience I'd be willing to put down a pretty decent sum of money on a bet that lowering your heart rate will reduce your anxiety directly. (And then you'll of course have lower stress in general I should think, because you won't be worrying about the upcoming valve replacement and all the uncertainly surrounding a major operation. But that part is pretty clear, I would think) Good luck!
  • cauthon 4y ago
    Bradycardia is more commonly associated with aortic valve regurgitation or stenosis, not tachycardia. My understanding is that the heart compensates for the dysfunctional valve by attempting to pump a greater volume with each stroke.
  • adversaryIdiot 4y ago
    Yeah, I discovered it by trying to figure out why my resting heart rate and blood pressure was higher than it should be for an athletic person. Used to take beta blockers to slow things down (Which I do wanna say made me more calm). Turns out the medication was causing more damage, ACE inhibitors would have been better. Right now I'm not taking anything. Just getting tests every 6 months and waiting for the time to come. I have fine resting heart rate around 70bpm and 130 blood pressure avg. (These numbers went down after college)