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My wife works for the health care company that owns the insurance company. We hit max out of pocket long before entering the hospital for the surgery.

Multi vitamins are good, she takes it daily religiously, especially now that some foods are limited. (Broccoli, coleslaw, olive oil…) We only used that INR jump twice early after release as we trended down toward 2.0 to keep out of lovenox territory. She was on Lovenox shots for 3 weeks while...

I paid full price for mine $ 600 us online. I was actually surprised they sent it after reading the reviews and the rating on BBB. I wouldn’t recommend them but they did deliver the new Coag-sense machine quickly, it actually arrived before the order was marked as shipped. It took an online chat...

I just finished reading all your articles, I found them after posting the first post :) The 'Article from 2014 on managing my INR would have been very helpful when we left the hospital. I'm suprised I didn't hit it on a google search. (I finally followed some of the links)

Agreed, I would have dished out the extra cash had I done more research on which unit to purchase. This was the same brand name they were using, so it seemed like the right choice. (Actually it was a knee-jerk reaction, we found, we bought...)

Hi everyone, I'm joining on behalf of my wife, 60y/o who woke up after mitral valve repair to a ticking St Jude mechanical valve. Never had any symptoms, except a loud heart murmur that started just after covid. Apparently the broken cords were collagen related and the valve tissue was too...