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Please ignore the previous post about the SoftClix. I sorted it out and got it working....but... It breaks the skin, but just barely, even set to its deepest. So I get little blood. I have followed the directions exactly as they say in the book, and on their website. But to no avail. So far...

Hello, I just got a CoaguChex XS and I am trying to sort it out. My SoftClix is not working as it should. I load it correctly, but the needle will not come out of of it far enough, no matter what setting I use, to break the skin. Ideas? Thanks, Rocky

It will be one year tomorrow that I went in for my meet and greet at the hospital, and on Wednesday it will be one year since the surgery. It has been an interesting year to say the least. I had one trip to the hospital in the first week i was home due to a high beats per minute, two TIA's in...

My right hand started to swell up about 10 days ago. Then a bruise appeared in the center of my palm just below my middle finder. The swelling got a bit worse and all four of my finders started to get red. I went to the doctor and he said that I must have bumped the back of my hand somewhere...

Last night I was talking to my youngest daughter about what we will be doing for Christmas this year. Her mother and I are separated and Adrienne usually spends some time with me and some time with her mother. We where trying to sort out if she would be here for Christmas Eve, or here for...

Three weeks ago I was asked at the last minute to go to California with someone. It was on a Sunday and I had about an hour to decide. I said yes. We where suppose to be gone for only 9 days, so I took about two weeks of medication. That was a poor choice. The other poor choice I made was not to...

Last week I noticed that I was "spitting" up pink as opposed to clear. Each day it got a bit worse, and then on Friday it was bright red. I made an appointment with the doctor and I went in in the morning. He did a full blood work up, put me on the 15 minute blood pressure machine, I got a chest...

Something I have noticed since my valve replacement. My dreams are more vivid and I also am dreaming more in complete stories. Before the surgery my dreams where patchwork, and much less "clear". I have also noticed that my sleeping patterns have changed. I am sleeping less, and when I wake up...

I have a St Jude Mechanical Valve. The surgery was done Mid January. Since then I have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride with the Warafin. My target INR is between 2.5 and 3.5. Most of the time I have been below 2 and as low as 1.2 on one test. Last Tuesday, had a TIA. (Transient ischemic...

I was feeling tired and lightheaded and at times a bit dizzy over the last few weeks or so. I went to the doctor and he ordered some blood work and an EKG. I am now 12 weeks post-op and the EKG and the blood work came back normal. It would appear that it is not the valve, so much as it is me...