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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (1)
Mon, 09 Oct 23 6:02 PM | 44 view(s)
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Re: “Have you reached the stage yet where you no longer take blood thinners and can use some Advil or Aleve for a pain killer?”Our situations are different. I'll be on warfarin/Coumadin (anticoagulant) and aspirin (antiplatelet) drugs for the rest of my life. It's not all negative. My family has a history of strokes, so my meds may have an ancillary benefit. It depends on whether my father and sister died from clots or from plaque. I don't know the answer so I may be wrong about warfarin's silver lining.

Unlike Eliquis, it's pretty easy to overdose on warfarin and bleed to death. Rat poison is usually warfarin. Warfarin therefore forces me to monitor my clotting levels - called "International Normalised Ratio" for some dumb reason. And it keeps me from being able to eat most of the things on the "heart friendly" diet. No spinach... no kale... no broccoli... no collard greens... unless the quantities of them that I eat are extremely consistent, and that's hard to do. I'm not that disciplined, so I pretty much avoid the healthiest vegetables.

And you're right about the pain killers. Except for the "baby aspirin" I take every morning, I'm not supposed to use pain killers.
Re: “I just wondered if your team has wanted you to do stress tests as well.”No. Unless I develop new symptoms, it'll probably be a long time before I have another stress test or even another echocardiogram. I have a lot of creakiness in my ribcage - and it's uncomfortable, but they replaced my valve before it caused substantial damage. My heart is in good shape and the mechanical valve has a MTBF of 100 years!

That said, I just told my cardiologist that if my left arm is bent while I sleep, I get a fluttering sensation in my torso. He wants to make sure it's not arrhythmia, so there's a heart monitor coming my way. I'll have to wear it for a week.







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By: micro in 6TH POPE
Mon, 09 Oct 23 3:40 PM 		Msg. 46514 of 60008


Have you reached the stage yet where you no longer take blood thinners and can use some Advil or Aleve for a pain killer?

I am asking my heart doctors NP if I can stop taking the blood thinner so I can start taking some Ibuprofen or Aleve for my degenerative arthritis which is eating my hip..

Hopefully yes.. I wondered where you were on that issue.

I don't like being a heart patient.. They want me to take a
stress test which would have to be chemically induced and I don't think I want to do that.. I see no reason to force the heart to beat at a much higher rate than it normally does and I do not like being lit up inside and super heated. I just wondered if your team has wanted you to do stress tests as well..


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