Rose's Posts

I saw my cardiologist today for a follow up visit. He said the valve sounds great and said that it should last 6-11 more years (an estimate, of course). I'm already at 9 years! He was not concerned with the new ascending aortic aneurysm because of its size of 3.2 cm and said we should check it every 2 years with a CT scan. Other echo concerns were minimal and said a lot can be a result of the person doing the echo. This is something I've heard before. I still have a lot of PACs but when he raised my Metoprolol to 50 mg,.it caused my already low resting heartbeat to go down to the high 40's so we reduced the Metoprolol to 25 mg again I less I feel the PACs increasing in which case, I should resume 50 mg. All and all, I'm very happy with the visit I always feel better after talking with him and so thankful he's my doctor. He will be retiring next year but he will help me transfer to another doctor.