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I can understand your frustration. I got my valve when I was 31 and had graduated college 2 months before my surgery in 1967. All of my post-grad plans went up in smoke when my docs told me to find employment with a large company with a lot of group insurance.......and I did. Then I spent the...

Are you 30 years OR 30 days post-op? Sometimes it can take a while to get warfarin leveled sorted out. If your INR is good what other problem are you having? Most people can return to a normal life after OHS(open heart surgery). Why do you think you can't return to driving a buggy behind a...

Ah, yes. I remember those times well. When there was no INR, no simple testing, and no real knowledge of Coumadin(warfarin), most Drs were scared to death of it, and we patients had very little, if any, access to meaningful info. Hence, a lot of mistakes were made in the '60s and '70'. I...

I can understand your concern although I think it is unfounded. I have been on warfarin for 56 of my 87 years, have lived a completely normal life, had the bumps and bruises like everybody else and haven't come close to bleeding to death.....or even needed more than "first aid" and a few...

Mike, you are responding to a very old post (4/2021) and you may not get a followup answer to your new post.

Welcome Marco. Take a deep breath. You are fresh out of surgery. Things may take a while to sort themselves out but your case is not unusual. It may (will) take some time to get your INR in range but you are in a safe place and your nursing staff knows how to handle you. It is almost always...

It depends on how many surgeries you want in your future. A tissue valve will fail sometime in your senior years, if not before. Mechanical valves typically do not fail. While I have not ridden motorcycles, I have had my share of cuts and bruises over the years while on warfarin. I have...

It's great to hear that everything is going well. This seems to be a perfect procedure for seniors, late in life, to have valves replaced or to replace a worn-out artificial valve.

I agree.

I do agree with your summation. From your initial post I thought you were a new patient to OHS and I only wanted to give you a little positive assurance. It seems you are doing research work. It may not be easy to find a comprehensive study of a relatively young age sampling. Frankly, I...

"Overkill" was probably not the correct phrasing. I meant that testing too often can, and does, confuse the tester since tests over a short time sometimes leads to illogical results. I try to have only one Rx for Warfarin at a time and make use of pill splitting if possible. History has...

Hypothetically, your dosing would be 31mg/wk. I would take 4mg 6days and 4mg+2mg 1day(6mg) mid-week =30 mg/wk. I doubt that the loss of 1mg spread over the week would make much difference........and you only have to stock 4mg tablets, not 4mg and 5mg tabs. Regarding your idea of multiple...

Somehow my posting above has been attributed to Pellicie. It is my response to his earlier post. As I've said many times......I am not very computer savvy and am unable to correct my error...........but gimme a break I am pre-computer........but taking warfarin has made it possible for me to...

I was in the hospital two weeks following my surgery in 1967. Four weeks after discharge from the hospital I started a brand new job with a Fortune 50 employer, passed their pre-employment physical, and began the normal schedule of 8 hours/day as an accountant. Hated the job and transferred to...

I did not intend to minimize the importance of properly managing ACT. That said, I think we sometimes make ACT overwhelmingly difficult for a new person on warfarin. When I had the surgery I had never heard of Coumadin(warfarin)....INR had not been developed.....the only testing was done...

Over several decades, I have maintained an INR of 2.5-3.5 (or close) on 5mg/day with a few +/- 2.5mg to correct any trending hi or lo. About 18 months ago I started to drink a bottle of Boost to help with weight gain. Boost contains vit K and my INR took an immediate nosedive to +/-2. After...

Good luck with your upcoming TAVI. That procedure, when possible, seems the better alternative for seniors needing replacement of failed valves rather than an open heart procedure. Please come back post TAVI to share your experience. I am sure many readers of this forum would also be...

Congratulations, the first year is the hardest as you adjust to your new best friend...........and you are right-on about this forum. I only wish it had been around in my first few years. I doubt my one and only "glitch" would have occurred if this group had been around for good counsel.

Some things about OHS don't seem to change with time. I still have a dim memory of pulling the drain tubes from my surgery many years ago. The first one was a shock......and then it dawned on me that they would do it all again for the second tube😭. But, as you say, it is all a part of the...