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Hey guys, just wanted to update.. Today I'm 8 weeks past op, and my INR has been below range for 5 weeks. Last week I pushed back with the nurse about my dosage because I'm clearly not taking enough and finally she upped it more than her usual 2mg/wk. That whole thing is annoying and I'll be...

I actually started back doing hair at 3 weeks post op (and did a couple people here and there even before that!) My pain after surgery was horrible. I hear from a lot of people who are much older than I am, that they weren't in a lot of pain after surgery. I would say 2 and a a half weeks was my...

Nobody in my class is in my age group, closest one is probably late 50's and she has an arrhythmia. I do have a HR monitor, I'll have to ask what they want me to keep it below. I can already tell that this shiny new valve is functioning much better than my old one, just by how low my HR is...

They do monitor my incline and speed but they never tell me to increase it, that's all up to me I guess. Today I did push myself a little harder, but I'm not jogging yet. The room gets so hot with everyone exercising, I was mostly just uncomfortable from the heat today! I take the stairs to and...

They say I'll go 3 days a week for 6 weeks, my insurance will cover 12 weeks though. I got a bit of a late start it sounds like, I didn't start till 4 weeks out. All we do is stretch/warm up and then I walk on a treadmill for 40 minutes. It's mostly just boring, yesterday I brought my phone and...

Just figured out how to make a little chart like you did :P So this was my dosing from last Wed to yesterday: MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN TOTAL 3 2 3 2 3 2 2 17MG My INR was 2.0 yesterday (last wed it was 2.1) They added...

Hi Mark! I'm almost 4 weeks post op from my mechanical AVR. I was strongly against mechanical too, but now I'm so thankful that I chose it (rather, my doctor and surgeon said it was the best choice so I went with it.) I want it to be a looooooong time before I'm back in that operating room, that...

Dang, 12 weeks paid leave, that's awesome!!! I'm self-employed, I own a little salon and typically only work weekends and stay home with my kids during the week. Luckily I have savings, so taking time off was fine, but I have missed doing hair! I actually colored someone's hair a little over a...

Thank you :) I can't get the link you sent to work, it say's "Object not found." Anyway, I'm completely off Tylenol (and any other pain meds) now, I'm also off the beta blocker and water pill so I'm only taking my warfarin and a baby aspirin. I guess I'm thinking in weekly doses since they are...

I definitely will not self dose! Just wondering what people thought, each nurse that takes my INR is so different. I may just prescribe myself a drink a couple nights this week ;)

Another week, that makes it over two and a half weeks out now. A week ago I was still taking 3,000-4,000mg of Tylenol in a 24 hour period, yesterday was the first day that I didn't even think to take it and I realized at bed time that I never did take it. Most of all at this point I feel like I...

No Title I had to share this, my best friend started fostering a baby girl just last week, she's in the zipper club too, I couldn't resist the photo op with her! I'm also really happy with how my incision/scar looks 11 days post op :)

That's the thing though, they aren't helping me sleep, they seem to be waking me up. Only the first night did they knock me out. Hoping for lots of sleep tonight without them!

Good call, I forgot about that side effect, I think I may have some stool softeners in the medicine cabinet. They had my pipes working before I left the hospital luckily! I think the oxy is giving me insomnia and I'm gonna have to quit taking it. I was wide awake most the night last night and...

It did cross my mind as I have a 5 and 9 year old, but I could never know what to write, I would've needed more time to think of all the things I wanted to say. I had so much to do in preparation before surgery, I decided that was too big of a task to worry about. I had my mitral valve repair...

I don't feel like I want to take it during the day because of the drowsiness and loopiness. I took it easy today, didn't even go outside and took a nap, I'll try again taking one oxy at bedtime.

No Title Two nights ago I was finally desperate enough to take my Oxycodone (5mg immediate release.) I haven't been getting much sleep, if any at all, and figured at this point it was worth the potential nausea. So I only took half a pill and it knocked the pain and me out for a solid 3 hours...

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I made a post on Pre-surgery and continued it, but I figured it was more appropriate to just start a new post here. (My surgery was May 12th 2017) Surgery lasted about 6-7 hours, I woke up in ICU, not able to open my eyes, and a mouth more dry than the Sahara desert. I could hear my family and...

Yes they are very happy to have me home! I'm on a low dose of Carvedilol, which the nurse today said it's motoporol (so?) that tends to give nightmares. I'm hearing elsewhere that the surgery itself can cause them. I had no headache or nightmares last night but I also didn't really sleep...