Ascending aorta aneurysm

thank You 🙏🏻 Gemita...Good Dog....BFCM23...USMC....Pacer... for your valuable input 🥰 

I  follow all MEDICAL  interpretations on YouTube and that's valuable, but can't match lived experiences! Given that this ticking bomb is often discovered "accidentally " its even more important that we share the information 🙏🏻 

I also learned that except-able parameters about Aortic Aneurysm are changing, as Medical Fraternities are also learning more about it! Given that this situations only gets worse as time passes,some sort of interventions is required sooner rather than later.....not that I am relishing the thought of ANY intervention....but I still want to live a bit longer ....proactively! My first action will be getting CT or something more accurate to determine ACTUAL size?

 I let you know how I go when I see my regular Cardiac EP on 6th Dec 

....hopefully 🙏🏻 I am not too confusing 🫤 as English is not my native tongue 😛 ....thank you for sharing your experiences and opinions...

 

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I would not have known

by Good Dog - 2023-11-28 21:02:39

I would not have known that English is not your native tongue had you not told us! Seemed perfect to me. However, English "IS" my native tongue, but I am not very proficient with it.

I agree with you relative to being proactive. However, as a surgeon once advised me when we were approaching what I considered to be a "minor surgery"; "there is no such thing as minor surgery". Certainly, an aneurysm repair is not minor surgery, so unless my aneurysm grows to 5 cm, I'll be happy to live with it!

I'll post back here again if and when anything changes. I'm hoping that you don't hear from me on this again anytime soon.

Sincerely,

Dave

You are welcome Millie

by Gemita - 2023-11-29 11:34:22

Millie, what is important is that you are watched closely with the best imaging available to monitor for any growth.  If growth is slow, or better still, if no growth occurs and there are no other complications, then you may never need to be treated (the best outcome possible).   As Dave says, no procedure is without risk and sometimes leaving well alone is a good option too for many conditions, providing nothing changes, so hope you can go back to enjoying your life and activities and leave the worrying to your doctors.

Dave, hope your wife is making a full recovery and that your aneurysm doesn't progress.  My brother has one the same size as yours and has had it for years.  His is just being watched too.  He was nervous at first but he knows stressing over it won't help

Gemita - Thank you!

by Good Dog - 2023-11-29 15:36:05

My wife is doing well. Thank you for asking! She has had a low-grade fever since being discharged. It is only slightly above normal 99.6 F (37.55 C). So we are just hoping that it  subsides. She has a very good Doc that actually called her at home last night just to check in on her. They talked for ten minutes! Don't know about the UK, but there are not many in the U.S. that will do that. Same Doc that did my Carotid surgery last year. The Doc wants her to get another CT next week just to be sure it is all good.

BTW: I just scheduled my pacemaker upgrade to a CRT for March 12, 2024. Finally.......and hopefully my battery holds-out. My last interrogation 2 months ago indicated that I had 10 months to ERI. So I should be able to avoid the dreaded ERI changes! I won't have to worry about that with the new PM!

Sincerely,

Dave

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