Ok so, when i was about 13/14 the doctors discovered i have an extra valve in my heart.
I want to find out more about this - i never used to but i do now.
Is it common etc. I've googled a whole bunch of things but i cannot find any info on someone having an extra valve in their heart.

Help?

If it was serious i would have thought you'd be called in for anual checkups. I've never heard of anything like that before, are you sure it was an extra valve? but i guess if you are concerned go see your doctor.

Yeah im 100% sure its an extra valve, i also have a heart murmur.. The docs always check my heart when i go there. I occasionally have to have one of those heart monitors put on me for a day or two. There are certain things i have to do, like i cant have blood in my mouth, i have to have amoxilyn before i go to the dentist, before i got my tongue pierced etc. I'm technically supposed to stay away from smoking, and probably drugs that increase my heart rate. I think most of these things are just precautions though.

But the way they told me that i had an extra valve- i just assumed that it was common - but i cant find any info on it

errmm this thread shouldn't be in this forum? Can a mod please move it?

yeah i was thinking the same thing! Not really a topic for beauty & makeup

I'm not sure, about the valve thing. I've had most of the tests you've mentioned over the years, and our family has a history of things like that. I think it might be more common than you think though, allot of people never have these things picked up on. But the only valve problem i know about it mitral valve prolapse, which is pretty much all the precautions you described, things like penicillin before dental treatments.