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Whenever I let my INR get above 3.5 or so, I tend to bruise. I bump my knee or something and forget about it, but the next day it’s huge and looks awful and takes a long time to go awaand is painful to the touch, which bruises didn’t ever used to be, for me. I’d love to go skiing like I used...

That’s be the CC surgeon, who apparently wants nothing to do with patients once he’s done with them. His secretary even reported me to their ombudsman office when I tried to get an answer about another drug he had me on. They actually told me not to contact his office anymore, but to do...

Maybe so, but avoiding eating too many greens at one time (especially kale or broccoli) is good thinking. Just wanted to say that while people on this forum often say ‘dose the diet’ and ‘eat what you want,’ in my experience (as a vegetarian) it is actually extremely important to not gloss over...

I’ve been short of breath and having dizzy spells since stopping metoprolol a week ago. (I know this post is twelve years old, but the topic is similar.) I very slowly weaned myself off it. It’s been a year since my AVR; I’d gone down to just one 25 mg pill a day within a month or two after...

Hi. I hope time heals that pain you get with cold weather. I didn’t have any metal plates put in, but I have noticed that since the surgery I get deep aching pains in my bones with cold weather. I wondered if it was from them sawing through a rib & the sternum to get to the heart. I often...

Hello. I know this thread is a bit old, but could you share that study? Thank you.

Hi, I don’t have experience with AFib specifically, but taking magnesium seems to help make other arrhythmias less frequent. Can’t find specifics in the literature right now, but this is interesting: https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-021-00813-z

Ok, if no one else is going to ask, I will: What is the magic supplement?? lol I used to very occasionally sort of go cross-eyed right before the surgery but not since; whenever it happened I had to close my eyes and wait it out; luckily it only lasted a couple minutes. How do you function...

That’s the trial my CC surgeon wanted me to be in last year; I was like, “I just want the valve with the best track record in hemodynamics, etc. - I don’t care about helping out with a study.” He hemmed and hawed till finally, the morning of surgery, when the nurse came and asked if I had any...

I’m 10 months post op and have been doing lots of prescribed stretches with exercise bands, some planks etc for some (unrelated-to-the-surgery) neck and back pain i was having.. and I think it’s setting off more of the chest / sternal pain like I had up until about 5-6 months post op. So even...

I’ve lowered my Metoprolol dose to a quarter pill a day, 8 months post op, so it’s only 6.25 mg or so... but I get arrhythmias if I go any lower than that... Some people here said you just have to put up with the arrhythmias for a week, (after stopping Metoprolol) & then they’ll go away... but...

Green tea affects my INR. I read about a woman who was sensitive to black tea, on Warfarin. It is something I consider if my INR is a bit high - did I forget to drink my green tea this week? - and usually that’s the case. (Note: I drink really strong jasmine tea without ever removing the tea...

Did you mean that you ARE comfortable splitting pills? Sorry, it’s 4 am, I may have missed something.... I also (briefly, thank god) had a Coumadin clinic that wouldn’t prescribe different dosages and insisted I add or subtract half a 5 mg pill a week depending on whether I was above or below...

I don’t. I just need, as the title of the post makes clear, to know * why * we are often on both, so when a random doctor who, in other ways is untrustworthy, says to go off it, I can decide whether that’s really a good thing or not.

Hmmm... @Chuck C , as you kindly posted, the 2014 guidelines seem to say aspirin should be taken along with warfarin for a mechanical valve, but the 2020 version is more vague and says individual decisions should be made based on each case. Am I reading that right? Wtf does that mean? ‘Trust...

Hi Catwoman, Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts. I can understand that. What I’m trying to find out, as per the title of my post, is WHY one would need it; & if it is not advised, WHY that’s the case, and whether not taking aspirin would then increase one’s risk of say...

But you have a mechanical valve & are on warfarin?...

If you have any evidence for that statement, in the form of an academic paper, or otherwise, I’d love to have it; And thank you for your commiseration. Yes. He was an *****. I didn’t even mention here the worst, most condescending things he said and did in my appointment.

@RAS What kind of ‘stroke-like symptoms’ did you have, if you don’t mind my asking?... like, couldn’t speak? Move something? Numbness somewhere? Didn’t anyone say, “we should’ve had you on aspirin from the start”? I guess they probably wouldn’t, at least not in the US.....

And if that weren’t bad enough, you have condescending doctors like mine who wouldn’t deign to explain to the patient why they insist on one particular way, even when their opinion goes against recent published research...