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When I learned that my mitral valve was likely calcified I started routinely consuming natto because vitamin K2 has been associated with a reduction in valvular calcification so natto was recommended to me by a friend. For a year or so prior to my OHS for three valves (two of them mechanical) I...

I have found that vitamin K2 MK-4 has no impact on INR as you said, but vitamin K2 MK-7 has the same effect as vitamin K1 and possibly more. If you are taking K2 as a supplement from a bottle, check the label to see if it's MK-4 or MK-7. Likely if it's not affecting your INR, it's MK-4...

For me the experience after OHS was traumatic enough that I now after four years still take Colace every day like vitamins. Doctor said it was ok to do that so I kept it up along with diligent hydration and fiber (psyllium husk power or capsules are convenient when you can't otherwise control...

Yes, in 2017 at 65 I had three done at the same time along with a couple of bypasses for insurance. The AV and MV are mechanical and the tricuspid is tissue. Long surgery, phenomenal surgeon, but it's doable. The biggest factors for me were these questions. Do I want to be on blood thinners...

I've been saving them since I started just in case I lost one but have yet to need one and question myself for keeping them. So you gave me a reason! I looked though my pile of about 20 chips and don't have a 403. They seem to be sequential and only increase; my latest is 422, so I researched...

If you can't use the first drop then take next drop from a different finger. After a bleed occurs the body starts the coagulation cascade so the second drop from the same puncture will have different properties than a fresh puncture. I have noticed by testing on consecutive days that INR can...

Blake777, This question may not apply because I’m assuming some things – that your pacemaker is pacing your ventricle and because the ventricle can be paced either extrinsically or intrinsically, I’m also assuming intrinsic pacing (where the lead connects to the inside wall of the ventricle as...

Yes. I had A-flutter for months. That's not same as Afib though (flutter is too fast but regular where A-fib fast and irregular), but I'm on Coumadin too because two of my valves are mechanical. For the benefit it gives, the inconvenience of anticoagulation is worth it. With Afib, there is a...

I can't feel when my INR is high, however there are signs, namely bleeding. I have experienced short-duration nosebleeds, have had pink-eye three times or easy bruising. These are signs of too high INR. I don’t understand how or why warfarin would weaken microvascular wall strength, but it...

Cuoricino, it might be your diet. Warfarin is called (although somewhat of a misnomer) a vitamin K antagonist because it inhibits the recycling of vitamin K which is used in the blood clotting process. Consuming vitamin K will counteract warfarin, in fact it is so effective that it is used as...