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all done. heart is back in sinus rhythm :cool:

tomorrow morning i'm getting cardioverted hopefully will regain sinus rhythm :cool: sick of being in AFib :(

i had no recollection of the breathing tube being removed after my surgery tbh

my surgery was originally scheduled for early 2020. it eventually happened at the end of april '21. luckily i stayed symptom free before the operation !

amoxicillin i believe has a short half life in the body, so i'd imagine it shouldnt affect INR for long ?👍

i need a trip to the dental hygienist soon. i was informed by Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, that I need 3g amoxicillin an hour before treatment this is the procedure i used to have before scaling, polishing etc until around 2007, when in the UK they changed the guidelines, so that people...

i have an identical twin aswell who escaped having a heart complaint he's around an inch and half taller than me, and heavier built quite a size difference for identical twins

i've been reading a bit about genetics and warfarin response. it seems as though the high response and low metabolism i seem to show for warfarin which means i need a v small dose of it to get my INR in range is far more common amongst East Asians than Europeans. Maybe somewhere in my ancestry...

only other thing i can think of is at the end of last week and most of this week i have been eating a home made casserole (i made a big pan of it which has lasted 5 days) In it was onions, carrots, butter beans and cooking chorizo, the sausage variety which is alot stronger than the sliced...

thanks for that ! I'll take your advice and use my coagucheck meter on Saturday morning to see where I am ! 👍

no brand change since I started on warfarin after the op this change in my INR has happened since I came back home 2 weeks ago before that, after I was discharged from hospital I was living with relatives for a month i think it's the change in diet and eating habits that has occurred in the...

the follow up to last weeks saga is above....and it's even more grim :(

So...... I tested myself this morning with my Coaguchek INRange meter...I got 5.8 !!!! :oops::oops: I thought there must be something wrong with either the meter, the testing strips or my technique !! Went to the INR clinic about an hour later and had blood withdrawn from a vein to test INR...

yes. I've thought the same myself....and it kind of makes sense to me how just a few glasses of dilute to drink grapefruit juice (10% from concentrate) could have such an affect on my INR...given how little warfarin i need to bring my INR in range

oh, that Roche supply quality control samples, which are actually not needed for the INRange meter I have, as this model does its own QC check before every test However you can still use it as QC sample , which I did. This sample has a known INR of 1.9...so I was able to test it (just the same...

had my last test on Monday 7th...my result was 2.8

Do you think I should take 1mg of warfarin today rather than my scheduled dose of 2mg?

Yes. I plan to do that in a few days. Honestly can't believe a few glasses a day of the dilute to drink(not pure stuff) has increased my Inr so much tbh

My Inr is above 4 according to the coaguchek meter. The Roche control sample I tested gave the result is was supposed to 1.9. Makes me think my blood inr was correct. I'm still going to take my daily warfarin dose of 2mg daily, and cut out the dilute to drink pink grapefruit juice. Home test...

Had a few glasses a day of dilute to drink pink grapefruit. Maybe that's the cause?