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Yeah, I was just reading about the interaction with Amiodarone and Warfarin. At my husband's dosage he should be taking a 30% lower dose of Warfarin due to the interaction. So when he comes off of it, next month if he stays in normal sinus rhythm for that period, then they will have to...

So why the heck is the "therapeutic range" 2-3 instead of 2.5-4? Why was the clinic happier with his inr at 2.3 than at 3.3? If the incidence rate is 6.7 at an inr of 2.3 and the incidence rate is 2.4 at 3.3 why wouldn't they WANT his inr at the 3.3? This really confuses me. Even when he was at...

Also, if it happened slowly over time, then you may not have noticed the changes in your stamina and endurance. My husband had a hard time giving definitive answers to the symptoms question. He could never answer the do you have difficulty breathing question because he smoked for many years....

I am decent. LOL I told him to stop dropping things. :P It always makes me nervous. He seems to drop things a lot, and it is one of the first signs of MS which his mother had, and he carries many genes for. It would be awful late to suddenly find out you have MS though....

STILL hasn't gotten here and he has been home over a week. *sigh*

Could it be some kind of hives from anxiety? Edited to add: Just read Pellicle's post. Irritation from adhesive would also make sense.

My hubby stopped taking the stool softeners as soon as the nurses made it sound optional in the hospital. He wasn't having a problem going to the bathroom. That is still one of the side effects of the whole thing that he hasn't gotten. We didn't even buy the Senokot at the pharmacy. I figured if...

Good point. Hubby is taking amiodarone. :) Since his afib is basically constant as far as we know, he will probably be on it until that is dealt with. We are still hoping he is among the 94% who naturally clear the afib as their heart heals. It's been less than 3 weeks since surgery, even if it...

What an experience! I mean, they are celebrities in our world. ;) Dr. Reardon trained under DeBakey, which I have to say did effect my picking him as one of the surgeon's we were going to get opinions from. He just won us over. What a nice man he is. Surgeon's have a reputation of being stand...

Yes, I believe hemi-arch refers to the area from the valve to just below where any arteries branch off. in the ascending aorta, not the abdominal aorta. :P

My hubby got aortic hemi arch replacement. They did the valve and a graft. It was different pieces, but it wasn't the WHOLE aorta. :) One piece would probably shorten time on the bypass machine. Every minute you can knock off that is probably beneficial. According to hubby's notes he was on...

Yeah, we don't yet know enough about how hubby's body handles it. For now we know he was initially slow to rise, but then shot up like a rocket. We are trying to keep his diet consistent, but it is all a learning curve. This is probably the reason for the 90 day wait to be able to get on the...

This is probably the type of thing we are waiting for in the mail....

So, with the one reading from Monday that was high end of the range, they halved his dose for that night only. Then he went in for what is to be his regular day to do inr checks, Thursday (yesterday). His reading was 4.5. So they requested he skip that night's dose and then halve it the next...

He doesn't HAVE a harness. They didn't give him one. The nurse said they mailed the heart monitor, so we are watching the mail....

Gotcha!

I know they aren't related. LOL It was just something we found out today. I am not worried about it after Pellicle's post about bleeding events with the different numbers. It will eventually stabilize, and then the whole anti-coagulation thing should be relatively easy.

Hmmm... The 6 lead shows afib today. I did a quick online "tutorial" meaning I read about how to read afib on an ekg, and he is definitely lacking Pwaves. On another note, his INR went up to 4.5! They are doing a dosage dance. :P

Yeah, it shows afib too. BLAH. Every time he runs any of these monitors it shows afib. We haven't had a normal period at all.

Are you on anti-coagulants for your afib? My hubby can't really go to the hospital every time he has been in afib if it is constant. He is on Warfarin, so doesn't that mitigate the stroke risk?