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Thanks to everyone for your kind words.

My father lost his battle with cancer last week and we had his funeral today, and although he was not a member here he was a valve replacement veteran as some here may recall me posting in the past. Dad had his aortic valve replaced in 1985 at age 44 due to rheumatic fever as a child. He was...

Hmm I have come across clueless onx recipiants on other sites that are on the low inr protocol but NO asprin, it was never even mentioned to them of the asprin requirement, I was quick to inform them of onx’s own recommendation. Perhaps the mech valve manufacturers are scrambling to get as many...

Yea mine was right wrist too but 4 weeks before my op, they had to literally yank on the sheath to remove it and damaged my radial artery which a week later caused blood clots to block the artery making my arm quite painful.

I take k1 and k2 supplements daily, so I have experimented in the past with lowering my INR without adjusting dose, and 1000 mcg of tablet K1 took 3 days to lower my INR from 4.2 to 2.2 where it stabilised, so it wasnt instantaneous by any means, a dose adjustment is far quicker to respond. I...

Also useful is tilting the meter up at the strip end as you apply the drop really helps the capillary action happen in the strip, even a smallish drop generally works whereas if you didnt tilt you would get error 5... not enough blood... bugger when that happens

Hi Amy, if you dont have something like a phone app to record your results I can recommend an app called INRlog created by a NZ haemotologist, its really simple for daily reminders and gives you a couple of graphs as well, you can enter your INR results each test-

I can’t recall seeing any posts on here regarding bileaflet mechanical valve failures, I recall I’ve seen a few posters on here with the tilting disc valve design up over 30 years although from what Iv read they were prone to cracks in the frame. My father has a St Jude bileaflet valve...

Now days I think the risk of dying during first time OHS is about 1%, my father had valve replacement OHS in 1985 and out of a group of him and 3 others he was the only one who survived so things have come a long way. He is 80 on monday and has just been given a very short time to live as he...

I found sleeping in a recliner arm chair for the first couple of weeks much more comfortable, the first night I had at home trying to sleep in a normal bed was dreadful misery. Sitting/sleeping semi upright was far less painful.

Tyenol or paracetamol as we call it here in NZ works fine thanks. Theres something like 69 years of the use of warfarin on humanity and still nothing conclusive on all the warfarin myths out there that seem to pop up like navel lint. Even IF warfarin caused half the amount of ailments its...

I cant be bothered breaking tablets in half so I find alternating dose like 9mg one day and 10mg the next works well if I think I need a half mg in there. Im lucky I’m on around 10mg a day so its easier to make dose adjustments with full tabs, me I find 8mg daily not enough and 11mg too much so...

So that means 10 patients over 10 years is 100 patient years? Or 20 patients over 5 years?

You can start to test and manage your INR from the get go, I was lucky enough to get my meter free from the NZ valve importer for St Jude, I did my first self test in week 3 post op I think it was. My last dose recomendation from a medical person I had I think was around week 10, with Pellicles...

Here in kiwi land its common knowledge every Aussie has a sheep suit in their wardrobe...

From what I can see with googling and stumbling around the web theres not much in the way of information on the trials progress, I do recall someone here mentioning there is also a UK variation of a polymeric valve material but I cant recall where it was at, so perhaps Foldax is keeping their...

Lawsuit to follow no doubt.... Stuff sounds like a miracle elixar https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/alkaline-water-benefits-risks#benefits

I have a St Jude Regent, my fathers St Jude was implanted in 1985 and is still ticking away so I see that as an excellent legacy for St Jude. I could be wrong but I seem to recall reading the founder of Carbomedics was a co-founder of St Jude valves back in the late 70s (?), so both valves...

I guess @Zoeey2011 never got an answer from their post. I would be really interested to know if anyone here since has had chemo on warfarin, I guess warfarin would be stopped and Heparin given instead? Similar to radiation treatment perhaps? Even if anyone wants to pm me rather than posting. Thanks

Its just looking better and better for Foldax https://cardiovascularnews.com/study-backs-biopolymer-used-in-foldaxs-tria-valve/ “The first of the company’s products—an aortic surgical heart valve—is currently enrolling a US clinical study as a result of FDA approval of an expanded study last...