What i meant is he told me to stop taking a medicine im not even on and revvy Im now starting to get that ache in right armpit lol
So which doc is confused, your cardilogist or your surgeon? The one thing I noticed is there is the too many chiefs syndrome, especially when you're in the hospital, and they ALL have their own agendas.
After surgery the surgeon is really just concerned with recovery from the surgery....though he may also be the one making the decisions in regards to the mechanical valve....but my home nurse told me pretty much the only thing your sugeon deals with after is pain management, healing/recovering from the surgery, and making the decision about when you go back to work, drive, etc.-
Your cardiologist is the one in charge of your heart function, cardiac rehab, and any medication concerning cholesteral/blood pressure etc. You may see your surgeon once or twice after you get out of the hospital, but you will be seeing the cardilogist a lot, for the rest of your life. I guess after I'm back to work it will only be once every 6 months or a year.
In my case I also have a doc in charge of the function of the pace maker- though evidently my surgeon normally would be, but in mine's case I think because he's the chief of cardio-thoracic surgery, he probably has too many cards on the table to be able to deal with tweaking the pacemaker, so one of my cardilogist's partners sees me for that stuff....
I don't know if you have a third doc dealing with the mechanics of your artificial valve, but maybe that is dealt with by your surgeon.
When I was in the hospital I had all these docs...
1)The "hospitalist" in the SICU who say me every morning. He was the house doc.
2) My cardilogist, but since he was in Beliz, it was one of his partners representing him.
3) My Primary Care physician, but since he didn't have privaleges there it was one of HIS partner's representing him.
4) My surgeon- Or one of his nurse/practitioners representing him because he was in surgery practically the whole time I was in the hospital.
5) The pace maker specialist.
6) The other cardilogist who was trying to regulate my heartbeat chemically, since they at first couldn't control it with the pacemaker.
All of them had some control over the meds I was taking. It was ludicrious. And half of them didn't seem to know what the other half was doing.
As to pit pain, try an old school hot water bottle, or one of those bean bags that you heat in the microwave. I just started using it And it does help. I wish someone had thought to suggest it to me right away. You can move it from under your arm to over the breast area.
I also found that wedging your heart pillow into your pit when you are lying down does seem to help too. I think it just puts a gap in there that takes some strain off the muscles. But definitely try some heat. Maybe you can nip it in the bud.
In fact it's time for a waterbottle treatment.
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