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Last year Father’s Day I underwent my third open heart surgery, and this time got the mechanical valve. Everything seems to be doing fine - got a nice bike ride with my son yesterday for almost 28 miles. Warfarin routine and weekly-biweekly INR testing is keeping me safe from risk of stroke...

This is my first winter with warfarin and I read something about humidifier and bloody noses. Thought I might be OK since I am on CPap with humidity but yesterday noticed blood when I blew my nose, and now it is background bleed. No more nose blowing! But just interested in your experience...

Hello, Just found this forum when I was googling for mechanical heart valve and skiing. Lotta information and thought I could contribute a bit. I has first surgery at age 11, for congenital subaortic stenosis - extra fiber in the ventricle. In 2014 had my bicuspid aortic valve changed out...