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Ah ok, I had read it but not listened to the podcast. I will surely measure any time after I eat mandarins. Thanks a lot!

Pellicle, I was reading this older thread and i saw you mentioned Spanish Mandarins”, i knew about grapefruit (this fruit interacts with so many things) but your mention of the mandarins got me thinking. I live in Spain for a good part of the year (got here a couple weeks ago) my family always...

Yes I have noticed you say that and I totally agree with it from what I’ve read and what I have been told. In regards to particular INR range, my cardio agrees with the reduced AC but he agrees that the 1.5 to 2 INR is too narrow even with frequent home monitoring. He told me to stay around 2...

Yes, the problem is the funding in this case, each brand only pays for their own study for their own product and that always has less credibility. I have read many of the articles, I just sent the graphs to compare to yours because I couldn’t get both using the phone. I had seen the LivaNova one...

Pellicle, just took a few screenshots, sorry it’s messy but doing this while on a train with my phone but you get an idea…I just clicked on “images” after my search words as sometimes when clicking on the links the image disappears…may be my phone or my ignorance!

Pellicle, I have done some search to look for similar graphs to the one you usually post and have realized most of the ones I find are very similar but show a little move to the left showing optimal anticoagulation (balance between major bleed and thrombosis) around INR 2.2 for the general...

Thanks a lot, very interesting to hear from a real case in such a relatively small group/sample.

Thanks so much for sharing!!!! Were you also taking aspirin when the stroke happened after your On-X implant? Had you ever had a stroke before or had any risk factors? The other case I heard on this forum about a stroke with On-X while on lower INR range the patient was not taking aspirin and...

It seems like the literature that can be found online indicate both the SJM AND On-x have very similar performance despite important differences in design. Does anyone know why SJM is not seeking approval from FDA for lower dose warfarin despite loosing market share in the mechanical valve line...

Oh no! Of course my intention was not to worry anyone, by anatomy I am more thinking that it depends on your body and how things resonate in your thorax ( Pellicle, Chuck and others have given very good possible explanations) and if you search more this topic I remember some people had said they...

Is it the noise or the thumping that bothers you? Or both? People in this forum say it gets a little bit better with time but mostly they say you get used to it. I’m just 7 weeks post op and for me more than the noise I’m trying to get used to the thump, sometimes it really feels like someone is...

I wouldn’t panick but I would report it as soon as you can….

For me the difference was huge and real both at home and at hospital/clinics….

The stenosis started just about three years after the valve sparing, like in 2011, but mild at first ( 20 mmhg) ….my original problem was just severe regurgitation due to BAV…something curious happened, there was a relatively long period ( I would say about 10 years) where the thickening of the...

When I got discharged from my AVR my hemoglobin was at 8.3 and they told me that was actually pretty good as it always drops significantly. They put me on iron supplements for a month and said in a few weeks more I should be back at normal range. They seemed so sure and see it all the time so...

Hi, I had for the last 16 years a blood pressure difference of approx 50 mmHg between left arm and right arm. Most times my left was 115/60 and my right arm was 165/60, I had aortic regurgitation and stenosis but they said that couldn’t be the reason. I have worried about it for years and...