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    Need Help Choosing! 14 Questions For Those With Mechanical Valve + Warfarin

    Intrigued. Method for …… ? stabilising INR?
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    Need Help Choosing! 14 Questions For Those With Mechanical Valve + Warfarin

    1. Age 46 2. 17 years ago 3. Bilateral valves/stenosis 4. Both 5. My INR is unstable so I have to test every week. Sometimes have to bridge. I find clexane bridging jabs (and the lumps they make )painful. 6. Both. Both were complications of emergency kidney surgery and clotting management...
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    Mechanical Valve Noise and Quality of Life Study

    I have been a fly on the wall here for years and rarely comment. But I feel I want to share something now because it was a BIG deal to me. I cannot stand any repetitive noise - foot tapping, screen tapping, keyboard tapping, chewing, sniffing. Any kind of beeping, vehicles reversing...
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    How much Warfarin Amount do you take?

    Also 500mcg (0.5mg)
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    How much Warfarin Amount do you take?

    I'm currently on Warfarin 15.5mg per day to keep in INR 3-4 range. For a few years I was on 18mg per day. Sometimes my dose needs to change slightly with changes in season - hot to cold weather or vice versa. Also a few years back I suddenly needed even higher warfarin doses - it took weeks...
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    Started getting digests out of the blue

    Ditto receiving emails after years of not visiting the site. Not a problem for me, makes me realise how far I’ve come since the days I looked at the site almost hourly!
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