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Sometimes the eye lash gets in grown or the eye lash folicle gets plugged.
I get one occasionally but they heal in a week or so.
Sometimes they just won't heal properly.
Good luck it shouldn't be a big deal.
Make sure to get your lollipop when they are done.
Mike
Dennis
Liver is enlarged. All the liver panel blood tests check good.
So it is inflammed but functioning properly.
Might be left over from pneumonia and the antibiotics triggered it.
Considering the strain my liver is on from the other 10 medicines I take everyday.
Hemoglobin is maintaining so far this week. Recheck tomorrow morning.
Also the blood tests they did last Friday came back.
Almost all RBC's destroyed are smashed so it is my mechanical mitral valve.
The liver just adds to the problem or is a side effect on the RBC count.
Changing the mitral valve to a pig valve would help the RBC count to go normal if I survived the surgery.
Cardio docs still say that is a REALLY bad idea. Three different ones now.
They may have a point.
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Doctor ordered another liver panel to go with CBC and Iron tomorrow.
If liver panel looks good and CBC is decent keep an eye on it and see if hemoglobin stays up.
A blood specialist isn't going to help.
I'm making more than enough RBC's for a normal person just not enough to out pace the valve destroying them.
Catch-22
Mike,
Are some of those 10(+ or -) meds counter-productive with the valve/transfusions?
I am sure you are not the only person experiencing this problem so you might want to check websites for mitral valve forums where you can read what others are experiencing.
I do that for Donna and the type of infusion she is on.
Just a thought Mike! Just a thought.
Under blood damage.> Artificial heart valve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hemolytic anemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMechanical heart valves can also cause hemolytic anemia with hemolysis of the red blood cells as they pass through the valve.
The RBC's being destroyed has been occuring since the first valve installed in 1988.
I made more than enough RBC's to replace the destroyed ones.
As I have gotten older as everyone does production has decreased but still more than a normal person without a mechanical valve needs....
...but not enough for someone with a mechanical valve.
Tell the nurse to keep an eye out for you :) Sure it will go fine.
Congrats Punkster, hope it all works out for you.
Mike, quite an ordeal, I sure hope you are back to "normal" soon
Tomorrow 9/16 I go under the laser myself. Having LASIK eye surgery, More precisely Bladeless Custom Wavefront LASIK. Doing only the left eye as the right is almost 20/20. Left eye been slacking for years, so going to make it do 1/2 the work from now on. Not worried so much as anxious, as I know exactly what the procedure entails. May not be on at all tomorrow, even though my right eye will be unchanged. Imagine, me not posting for a whole day
A Guy