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1. Husband had Bicuspid Aortic Valve 2. Husband's father had Cardiomyopathy unknown cause, heart transplant 3. Two kids, 16 years and 11 years old 4. Daughter has Pulmonary Flow Murmur, full work up at Mayo Clinic-no congenital valve issues, no ascending aortic issues, should outgrow murmur.

After surgery my husband had some mild-moderate night sweats and would always sweat after meals. This lasted for about 6 weeks. My husband also had horrid night sweats, one of his few symptoms of endocarditis which is nothing to fool around with. These sweats were different from his post op...

Best Vacation SPOT? St Thomas USVI Secret Harbor March 19, 2008 :) Wow...is all I can say :) Make sure you talk with your surgeon about your future careers. If I read through this all, you are with UPS now (hubby is with UPS 18 years) and are in nursing school? Make sure you discuss...

I sure hope we don't have any more hematomas, or bruising either. Clearly there must be an underlying problem to my husbands bleed, and it is unfortunate that it has happened twice with INRs higher than 4, but with the 2nd swelling and subsequent hematoma we new his INR was too high and...

The doctor felt his INR was higher than 4.2 (first one) at the time of injury or event. I will Toni. Hoping for more details soon. We did ice for 12 hours after this latest episode, and he only now will let a compression stocking rest on it. He has tennis elbow on the other side, and he...

Thanks Faye-Did you you hurt the elbow or did it just spontaneously start?

We don't know why the elbow is bleeding. He leaned on his work bench for awhile and 2 hours later he had the eggplant-all Xrays fine, just an INR of 4.2 (this was the first one). He came home from work on Friday and said his shirt was causing his arm to hurt and could barley get it off, and...

5mg yesterday, correct; I am going to find out if he wants me to call the clinic now (bad elbow, high INR and I STILL can't keep him out of the garage :rolleyes: ) Will let you know what I find out either way....as always, Thanks Gina :D

I can't reach his doc today, only the on call doc for their clinic and he has only seen Nate once prior, but maybe I could call just to get a dose for tonight.... I was even thinking 2.5mg tonight but then I suppose he will start to ping pong again. What day to re-test? Thursday? I am...

2 years went by with minimal INR problems. Husband took 5mg 7 days a week/35mg a week; In August, things started to change with loss of family members and medication changes (namely, Zetia dc'd) and since then, Nathan has been pretty much out of range. For the past 6 wks, he has been doing...

Hello! My husband has had his Carbomedics since Sept 05 @ 34 years old :D He has also been home testing since 2 months after surgery and would agree that it was an excellent investment. The only thing he does differently because of the coumadin is wear a motorcycle helmet. He did not start...

Nice to see you posting Jim-I don't post much anymore but I was certainly alarmed at your hospitalization! Glad to hear things are going so much better. These things are scary and I think it is a learning experience for all of us as we hear these stories! My husband had a bleed in his arm...

My husband had bacterial endocarditis d/t strep viridans. His body will grab the bacteria easier now than the first time and treatment will be more difficult. Be very aware and if there is any question at all, go the the doctor and get serum blood cultures. This was what we were told from the...

Hi I was plagued with horrible sinus problems in my twenties until I did three things--absolutely NO milk products during any kind of viral or bacterial issue (usually 2 wks, no cheese, yogurt, na-da!) , it causes the mucous to harden and become more tenatious....and vamp up the clear liquids...

When we cruised out of Galveston TX we drove, so my husband just carried his INRation on board the ship. This year we are flying to Miami, and if he takes his monitor, he said he is hopefully going to just carry it on the plane/ship. It did go through the scanner at the port terminal....in the...

Our thoughts and prayers are with you....

Nathan goes to his clinic when his INR at home is out of range because this is the agreement that was made when we first home monitored. He only checks at two places, and only when out of range. Our recent problem was with the last 3 months, out of range on the INRatio but in range at his...

No, he has not adjusted his dose at all. The only time was in August when he quit Zetia he added 2.5; Yeah, Nathan wipes the acohol off of his finger with a 2X2 gauze pad. He was a rock solid 2.6 2.8 ever sine his surgery and now he is usually out of range every week on his monitor but right...

I would have to say Ross, Karlynn and Gina have pulled me out of quite a few freak-outs, the worst being when Nathan was in ICU with bacterial endocarditis and I ran 4 hours home to get a couple of things and we were awaiting lab results to see if it was strep or staph and he hadn't made a valve...

Husband is down to the last 2 of 12 strips, and these 3 months his INR has been all over the place. Last week was his first in range reading @ 3.3 (which is actually out of his cardios comfort zone...) and today he was 2.4, and minutes later 2.0; We have had to recheck several times at his...