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Thanks Debi, The Dr. told us that it could come from scarring or blockage. He had an echo 2 years ago and everything was fine. They said his ejection fracture is still doing well and that that is a good thing. How often does your a-fib happen? Shouldn't his pacemaker help with the pvcs and...

I was just wondering if anyone has had A-fib out of the blue years after surgery. My husband went to have his pacemaker checked and they said he had a-fib for a day and then 2 months later had pvcs for extended period. He hasn't had A-fib since a week after surgery, although he has been...

The Drs office does get paid around $75 for calling us to tell us how to dose and when to go get checked again. So that could be some of the reason.

jkm7, he doesn't go to the pcp but to a local health campus and then they call in the reading to the pcp.

He told us that he doen't feel that they are as accurate as the other testing even though he gets the stick test anyway as long as it isn't over 4.0, then he gets a draw.

We did give the Dr. some statistics and papers on selftesting and I must say that we have been managing his dosing kind of on our own through the web calculator because of the Dr.s ignorance. There has been many times that he would tell him to skip several daysif it was a little high and when...

Has anyone had a difficult time getting the Dr. to give your insurance a authorization so that you coud get your home monitor. Neither of my husbands Dr.s (pcp, or card.) will send on to our insurance even though they would pay it 100% if they would send one. He has been on coumadin for three...

My husband had the same thing after his surgery for several months. It was really bad right after surgery for about 5 weeks, I'm sure yours will get better in time. Try not to get to discouraged your emotions are still pretty fragil due to all you have been through. There are better days...

Just trying to see if I could start a new thread. Hope this finds everyone well. I just wanted to ask if there are any other spouces that would like to talk about adjustments and anything else that they might be going through. cathy

Thank you so much for youR quick response. Al thanks for explaining this to me, i will give it a try. Sorry for butting in "wcasey5", i hope you get your inr straightened out soon. Thanks for always being here guys it is such a reasurance knowing i can always come to this site for support and...

sORRY I DIDN'T MEEN TO TAKE THIS THREAD BUT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO START MY OWN THREAD

lOW inr lOW inr I just wanted to know, if your inr range is 2.5-3.5 and you were 2.0 last week, dr increased it by 5% and this week it is 2.1, how low below range before you consider lovevox?

First of all getting your valve repaired or replaced is not going to make you leave anyone. Maybe for a few hours while they are doing the surgery, but shortly after that you will see all there smiling faces looking down on you as you wake up when it is all over. My husband went through this a...

beautiful beautiful He is absolutely gorgeous Mary. I hope all is well with his legs. My sisters was born with her feet turn the whole way around and had to have surgery to correct them when she was a baby. All turned out well, that was 53 years ago. May you and your family have a blessed...

Does anyone know how high cauliflower is in vitamin k?