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The history behind this is posted in this thread: http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?38498-INR-range-for-person-on-ACT-because-of-a-fib-all-native-valves This Saturday afternoon, my mom had her first "bleed event" since being put on Coumadin about 30 years ago. She decided...

Hi all, Haven't posted in a while (had a scare this weekend when mom fell off a chair that I might post about related to Coumadin) but have been reading when I can. I got an email from Cleveland Clinic today re: a series the Cleveland Plain Dealer did. I'm reading the first article and the...

Hopefully the pain management works. Mom's doing well, thanks for asking. She's on a New England/Canadian cruise right now. I think the cardio is doing an echo at her next visit in January'ish and then we'll plan a trip back to CCF for June'ish and continue with the CCF visits every year and...

Scott - did they mention if there's anything to be done to relieve the soreness?

Glad to hear it!

ugh.... i don't like this sound of this. hopefully someone hears from him soon.

Excuse me if this is a stupid question but..... I'm wondering if Al Capshaw isn't his name. His location is listed as North Alabama... Capshaw, AL is in north AL just north west of Hunstville almost to TN.

Lyn - I'm so sorry to hear about your dad, my thoughts are with you and your family. If I can do anything, please let me know as I'm not that far outside of Scranton right near Lake Wallenpaupack.

Hi Manipreet - that's great news that they don't want to do surgery right now. My mom had a balloon valvuloplasty done on her mitral valve in 1997 and when we were at the doctor's in Cleveland Clinic in June he remarked that she's done "remarkably well" with her balloon job and that she had...

Wonderful news! I'm so happy to hear that she's back home and on the mend after a very long ordeal. I'll continue to keep her in my thoughts.

Manipreet - have you gotten a specific date yet? Maybe you already had the surgery and I missed a post? Was just thinking about you.

You have it right. AND he doesn't believe in home monitoring since that has been raised before when I had her at least thinking about it. AND there's no way she'd change doctors over this.... I just don't get it. If they take her off coumadin only 5 days before surgery, how does he think 8mg for...

Well we met with the GP today. I sat patiently and didn't interrupt (or blow a gasket) so I'm impressed with myself :-) Anyway, she asked him about it. He told her the range he'd like her in is 2.0 - 3.0 (and generally 2.5 - 3.5 if the valve was replaced). She said ok when I called your nurse...

Yep.... we looked into that before when she was sort of interested in looking into it (she wasn't convinced she wanted to do home testing and ultimately it has to be her choice) but when she asked her GP about it (and I was sitting there) he said no way would he approve of that. "Coumadin is a...

Nope, he doesn't have a coumadin clinic. We don't have any in the area really. I investigated that when I wanted her to try to get a finger stick vs a vein draw. There is ONE but you have to be on their medical plan (Geisinger). She goes to a local hospital for a lab blood draw and they call her...

My mom talked to her GPs office today and apparently she's always been in the 1.5 - 1.8 range. She explained to them why she was asking and said the patient insert info says 2.0 - 3.0 and she didn't think her potential surgeon at CCF should have had to ask if she was on Coumadin but after seeing...

Nope, no aspirin or Plavix. The only meds she taks are the Coumadin, Atenolol, Lisinopril, a daily multi vitamin and daily calcium + vitamin D.

Thanks Al, if you do happen to find anything else out, please let me know. In the meantime, I'm going to see what I can do about helping mom get her last few months of INR readings and seeing what's what. I know in December at CCF it was 1.2 but she was having a cath so they had her off it for 5...

Thanks Marsha! I am going to print out that file and show it to her. I did ask her this morning to please get a least the last years worth of INR readings (the hospital she gets the blood draw reports to the doctor, then the doctor calls her and says "stay the same" but we never hear her INR...

Nope, she's never had a stroke or any other bleed event all the time she's been on coumadin or before that.