Any advice would be appreciated. You are probably getting small blood clots going across the PFO to your brain and this can certainly cause some of the symptoms you describe. It's hard to say if surgery will relieve all of your symptoms. You may be a candidate for a closure device that can be put in through a leg vein without requiring open heart surgery. Your doctor can advise you on the weight training.
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