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Hello everyone!
have not posted for along time but life has gotten back to the crazy, hectic, stressfull way before my AVR so I guess that means I 've survived the worst and moved along. Now to my reason for posting, I just wanted to get other valver's experiences on stopping coumadin before surgery. I am scheduled to have a wisdom tooth cut out next week and after my cardiologist talked with the oral surgeon they want me to completely stop taking my coumadin for 4 days before the surgery then take 10 mg that eveing of the surgery and 7mgs for the next 3 days then test. By the way I do home testing and they want to get my inr down to around 2.0 so I have to test the day my surgery is scheduled. What does everyone think, I'm not trying to second guess the doctors but I have concerns getting off that long and trying to get my level back after stopping. Thanks for everyones help and support in the past.
Tom
have not posted for along time but life has gotten back to the crazy, hectic, stressfull way before my AVR so I guess that means I 've survived the worst and moved along. Now to my reason for posting, I just wanted to get other valver's experiences on stopping coumadin before surgery. I am scheduled to have a wisdom tooth cut out next week and after my cardiologist talked with the oral surgeon they want me to completely stop taking my coumadin for 4 days before the surgery then take 10 mg that eveing of the surgery and 7mgs for the next 3 days then test. By the way I do home testing and they want to get my inr down to around 2.0 so I have to test the day my surgery is scheduled. What does everyone think, I'm not trying to second guess the doctors but I have concerns getting off that long and trying to get my level back after stopping. Thanks for everyones help and support in the past.
Tom