“I’ve been taking it for about one month, at 66 years old and about 2 years removed from open heart surgery,”
I’m 66. Had quadruple bypass last August followed by every complication known to man. I laid in a hospital bed for the better part of 2.5 months then, due to normal recovery and complications, didn’t do much of anything for 6 more months. Just started back in the gym last Monday. My strength and endurance have diminished to the point of embarrassing, but I’m trying to stay with it. Getting old isn’t for the weak.
I had a bicuspid aortic valve and severe aortic stenosis, during all the tests leading up to surgery the doctors discovered an ascending aortic aneurysm.
After surgery on day two my heart rate dropped to 30 bpm, an electrophysiologist was called in and said I had stage 3 heart block and I needed a pacemaker.
I went thru cardiac rehab, completing 24 sessions, it really helped me physically and mentally that the surgery was successful because I pushed myself in rehab.
I tell people until you’ve experienced open heart surgery, it’s hard to describe what you go through, everyone is different, the procedures the various hospitals and surgeons go thru are slightly different, I went into surgery thinking one thing and came out of surgery thinking something different, I was never in any bad physical pain, my biggest obstacle was mental which I never expected, especially after they told me I needed a pacemaker and essentially a second surgery.