Extreme

A murmur is a wide ranging term but not specific enough to tell me what the problem is and if it was similar to mine.

I was born with one of the cusps off the aorta not fully formed, my problem was it should be a non return valve but the flap that should close over after each beat so the heart pulls freshly oxygenated blood along from the lungs didn't form properly so after every beat my heart sucked back in some of the blood it pumped out.

My heart was naturally enlarging to compensate for not enough blood going round my body, but as it got bigger so did the amount of backwash so the problem got worse too as the chambers elarged they could hold more blood either from the lungs or from the backwash.

They installed a metal aorta and this has fixed the problem but has totally changed my lifestyle.

If you can tell me more I will see if I can advise in any way, I've done a lot of research into cardiac issues so I could make intelligent decisions regading my own situation.