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For those of you who home test, how do you handle the following? Since I got my new meter (Coagucheck Vantus), I have tested a couple of time high. Do any of you retest the following day, or do you just repeat in a week? Most of the time, the Coumadin clinic will just have me hold part of my...

I was looking at my calendar this morning and I completely missed that yesterday was the 47th anniversary for my first open heart surgery. I was born with a coarctation (CoART) and a bicuspid valve, and 47 years ago, when I was 8, they did the CoART repair ( end-to-end anastomosis). The one...

Hi all, I had my annual MRI yesterday on my heart, and in the results, there was something that I had not seen before. I'm hoping someone is able to translate what this means for me while I wait to speak with my cardiologist. Anyhow, in the results, they stated "There is a perimembranous/inlet...

Hi all, I used to self test and had been doing it since the early 2000's. I quite self testing though when INRatio no longer were selling testing supplies due to their recall (I believe that is still in effect). When that happened I started to go to a Coumadin clinic. I've been fine with...