Recent content by danjayh

Since I don't come here very often, I thought I'd post an update. I have the largest On-x in the mitral position. Still just as loud as the day I got it -- I can hear it over all but very loud music -- still doesn't bother me. My now wife (fiancee when I last posted in this thread) can still...

Digging up an old thread here ... but thought I'd post since nobody with a mitral valve had. I have an on-x in the mitral position. Originally my surgeon wanted me to be 2.0-2.5, but at my request he made my 'official' range 2.0-3.0. I check my INR fairly obsessively (at least once a week...

I just stumbled across this thread, but I just wanted to add my 2 cents. I hat an MVR at age 29, but I had complications due to (apparently) having had pneumonia going into the surgery. Post-surgery I was sedated on a respirator for ~2 days, and I spent the better part of a week in the ICU...

Just a quick follow-up: I was thoroughly impressed with the U of C medical center. I did decide to go with a sternotomy, and Dr. Jeevanandam did beautiful work. My incision is only 5-6", and he closed with subcutaneous sutures and steri-strips; I'm told that there should be minimal scarring...

I've only had mine fr three weeks (mitral on-x), but I'll say this: its LOUD. Doesn't actually other me (hey - it's way better than being dead), but it can be heard across the room. My fiancee was driving the other day and I was sitting in the back seat on the other side of the car, and she...

The tablets I am taking have 50mg (i think) of hydrocodone, and 500mg of acetaminophen (which is the component that I'm concerned about). Aside from those tablets, I am taking no other pain killers.

I'm finally home! In the hospital, they were giving me 2 vicodin every ~4 hours (which seemed like a lot to me), and that's what they prescribed me for home as well. That dosing works out to 6000 mg of acetaminophen/24 hours which is way over the recommended max dose, but it worked - I had...

Hi all! Just got back from the hospital last night with my shiny new On-X 31/33 Mitral Valve. Turns out that I had a case of pneumonia that was just getting started going in, and so recovery took a little longer than it would have otherwise (8 days in hospital). Doc managed to keep my...

I've been on warfarin for about a month due to afib, and next week, I'm getting a mechanical mitral valve. I am not impressed with the responsiveness or organization of the nurses at my cardiologist who do INR management - they don't return phone calls, they get annoyed if I test 'too often'...

Thanks Marsha! FYI, for everyone else, I figured out that I had the wrong site on archive.org. The correct site is: http://web.archive.org/web/20090423051120/http://www.warfarinfo.com/

I've seen many of you refer to the excellent information that had, in the past, been available at warfarininfo.com. Unfortunately for those of us who are new to coumadin, that site no longer seems to exist. The wayback machine has an archived copy of it at...

Hello, I'm 29, in a-fib with a severely stenosed and calcified mitral valve. My cardiologist put me on warfarin for my a-fib. The surgeon who is performing my surgery has told me that since I'm young, in good shape, and only dealing with a-fib + a stenosed/calcified native valve, I don't need...

Hello! Glad to be finally making my first post - after two registrations and lots of waiting, it's nice to be in. I'm 29 years old, and have a severely stenosed, highly calcified mitral valve. Apparently I had rheumatic fever as a child - very rare in North America, I guess I just got lucky...