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Congratulations on your 10 year valvaversery!! 🎂🍺

Im doing sporadic nightshifts at work at the moment and I sometimes forget to take my dose before I go, so I just take it when I get home the next morning, and then take my evening dose as normal, so some days its been 0mg and other days 20mg (Im on 10mg a day at the moment) and my INR was 2.2...

$7,400 NZ dollars I’ve read somewhere, once valves on the shelf have gone past their expiry date theres a few sites you can buy them for $250 US

Glad to hear you are doing well Aalok, it comes as a shock to most of us, did you have a bicuspid valve? I was roughly 6 weeks from finding out I needed surgery to the day of surgery.

My father has a St Jude mechanical that is still going after 35 years, so I’d consider that the bileaflet mechanicals are pretty well bullet proof and life proof too lol

Murmer picked up in 2008 but after an echo I was never told I had a bicuspid valve, next time at the doctors was 2011 where I was informed about the bicuspid valve and I was told its nothing to worry about just have it checked in 10 years time. Only googled it a few years later and found out it...

Thats great, you should be home in time for Christmas hopefully!!

Yep I did, and I have posted stats in the past that suggest around 65% of all BAVs result in aneurysm. Some studies suggest higher and some lower so 65% is a pretty accurate middle figure that I consider to be in the ball park. Over the years from some of the posts here regarding aneurym I would...

BAVD is a sub group of Marfans syndrone like neighbours on the same street, and I believe Loey Dietz as well which I think is the most high risk when it comes to aneurysm’s. https://www.marfan.org/about/marfan https://www.marfan.org/loeys-dietz https://www.marfan.org/bicuspid-aortic-valve

I would second Athens reply. Of interest here- https://badaorta.com/double-trouble-bicuspid-aortic-valve-bav/

My fathers St Jude mechanical was implanted in 1985 when he was 42, both him and the valve are still ticking. Mine was 5 a few weeks ago

@nobog I’d be interested if you could elaborate on this- “This valve, or similar, has been out and about for over 20 years - there's a reason its not on the market - yet.” Is this a case of ‘we should be driving cars running on water by now’ oil company scenerio ?

I assume you know about the Foldax valve? https://foldax.com/ If this valve pans out it will be the holy grail of valve advancements and the biggest thing since the Starr Edwards valve, the introduction of pyrolitic carbon and POC INR testing combined IMO

Thats where the inr chart @pellicle has posted numerous times shows the sweet spot or rather relatively wide range where we’re good and stroke risk is minimal. Makes weekly testing and self management a no brainer imo. On the down side unfortunately from personal experience with my father (his...

I to hope you recover quick and can put the virus behind you 👍 I don’t tend to get sick easily, but sometimes when my INR has wild swings for no particular reason I might have felt a bit off for a day or two and I put it down to maybe there was a battle going on in the bugverse.

Then theres the orientation of the valve when its implanted and the effects in turbulance, do they get every valve exactly at the perfect position to the enth degree? I’m guessing the guy who went 33 yrs with no warfarin may have had the perfect implantation or perhaps some other genectic...

Then there are the people who are aspirin resistant and I think someone was on here a few years back with an onx on aspirin and had issues- https://www.valvereplacement.org/threads/failure-of-onx-valve-and-problems-with-lowering-inr.878615/ And then I have even come across someone on another...

Thats a terrible thing to say Tom, no one deserves OHS. Im sure many of us have similarities in our life choices to Arnie, did we deserve it too?

Just bought a box of 48 strips last week here in New Zealand which cost $346.39 nzd incl gst, plus the courier, which is 194.79 euros for 48 strips. Some places here charge $110 euros for 24 strips. Strips are a tiny market here in NZ so I buy from the cheapest I could find out of a small...