tavi and memory

[John1952]

Since my tavi operation which is 100% fine 2 years on I am finding memory problems are happening since then !

I am thinking it is medication but my doctor says I should wait till my next visit to Barts ?

Any body have the same experience like this ?

[Ageingfast]

yes, similar apparent memory losses. But, 4years on, I can now grasp that my memory losses do not relate to heart surgery. Mine relate to a previous stroke and now Parkinson’s.

Make sure you get good sleep.

And soon your memory will return.

Perhaps a review of your meds would help. If your surgery has a meds specialist then that’s the obvious source. If not, then your chemist can carry out the task.

Best wishes

Sooty

[Taviterry]

My short-term memory has never been good. (At work we had voluntary health checks every few years for research purposes, and I could only ever recall four or five out of 20 words that had just been read out to us.) Now it's non-existent over a time-span of a minute or two. My GP gave me a couple of simple cognitive tests (such as reciting the months of the year backwards), and I did very well, and on a recent on-line test I did better than average. I did agree to having my cognitive reasoning check just before and just after my TAVI, but that never happened (unless I've forgotten them.😄). I recognise that cognitive reasoning and memory are not the same. Beyond two minutes, my memory is not bad, though it can be difficult to digest what medics tell me during an appointment. Today I was glad to receive a two-page summary of a recent appointment that I had twelve days ago with a private haematologist; it was as I remembered it.