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I am 7 years out of surgery (mechanical aortic and mitral valves). In the last year I've experienced several instances of severe leg cramping. These muscle spasms are super intense. I've come to call them a "super Charlie horse". Ive always associated them with bouts where I might of...

Hello all, first I want to thank this community for its many years of quality and sound good advice! I am approching 4 years of daily warfarin theropy and began to wonder what life will look like after being on warfarin for 20 years. When I came across this article...

Hello all, I want to share something i noticed while working out the other day. I am 45 years old, active and 4 years out of heart surgery that left me with to mechanical valves and a mended ascending. When I work out, I wear a heart monitor always. The other day we were working on...

Hello all, Valentines day approaches and I'm in love:) My small town has this fun contest where they break a hole in the ice in a frozen lake and men declare their love and then splash into the icy water while the person of our affections warmly giggle at our silly antics... and generally love...

Ive always loved the heat from a good sauna... now there are these "far infrared saunas" that would work well in my home because i do not have the room to build a traditional sauna. I have two mechanical valves and am 3 years after OHS. Warfarin daily. Does anyone have any experience with...

Im currently at the urgent care, again, for a bit tongue. This time is not as bad as the first, but it is bleeding... hasn't stopped bleeding for two hours... and with all likelihood, keep bleeding unless something is done... The last time i waited hours trying to apply every kind of pressure...

I recently went to home testing for INR and I like to convenience. I use the CoaguChek XS system. My insurance pays for testing once a week, but I'm kind of a numbers guy. I'd like to test more often... maybe twice or three times a week... or basically when ever i feel like it. Perhaps I...

I just looked at my pill box... looks like I "may" have missed two days of warfarin! Little freaked out right now. I didnt fill my pill box like i regularly do because my inr was high 4.2 and the docs wanted me to do a certain regimen then check again on monday... so i only filled my pill box...

Does the sound of the "click" made by mechanical valves have any correlation to inr there are times when I clearly hear my mechanical valves "clicking",,, and so do other people across the room, LOL... then there are other times where i dont hear it ... and neither do other people... Does...

Hi all, I had an echo done last week (2 year aniversery of my two valve replacement due to endocarditus)... results came back that there was one view of the valve that might be growth ... or it might just be a shadow or just how my valve looks. That was friday, they took bloodwork to see how...