Struggling with walking to work

[LucyBoo21]

Hi

I was just wondering if anyone else struggles with walking in the morning?

I walk to work at 8:30am and it takes me 30 minutes. Half of the walk is on a gentle incline, the rest is flat.

I struggle so much and it feels like so much effort yet coming home at 4:30pm, I'm fine.

I'm pretty much ok walking in the afternoon, if I'm on a long walk I may slow down but it's nothing like the morning when my breathing is harder.

My cardiologist advised me to take my tablets in the evening to see if that helped, sadly it hasn't.

[Blackcatsooty]

dear Lucy

First thing is congrats for walking to and fro work. That’s a good positive towards better health.

When stenosis got close to needing surgery, I stumbled forward. A very strange stumble, going forwards not backwards. I had to hang on to a telegraph pole to stop falling over. It was my body giving out serious warnings.

In my case the aortic valve was failing due to stenosis.

Hope your walking ok in the meantime

Sooty

[Traveldreams]

I had exactly this issue before my surgery. Couldn’t do the ten minute walk in a morning, come 10am had no issues. I did ask whether my medication could be impacting this but was told not. I’m currently off work post op so don’t know if I will still have the issue. Also, was very breathless when walking up stairs in a morning but fine in an afternoon. That is definitely not the same now.