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  1. brachikaa

    Open Heart surgeries and Neurological problems

    A couple of months after my surgery I've started having minor tension headaches in the forehead that seem to increase in pain slightly when wearing glasses or headphones during work. Isnt very painful, just annoying. Never had a migraine post surgery, had floater two times maybe. They cleared...
  2. brachikaa

    Facing a 2nd operation

    I sent u a pp!
  3. brachikaa

    Huge discrepancy between the lab and CoaguChek XS

    Hey guys, @Chuck C, @pellicle, @LondonAndy Thank you for your comments. I went to a private lab this morning and my INR results were 2.39... So the results from the hospital lab must've been inaccurate unless something drastically changed in my INR results (my dose stayed stable the last week)...
  4. brachikaa

    Huge discrepancy between the lab and CoaguChek XS

    Hello Chuck, thank you for your answer! To be completely honest, I doubt even that they have quality control. For a fact, I know that bigger cities, including the capital, have labs that are quite reliable, but unfortunately due to me staying with my parents, I have to deal with this local...
  5. brachikaa

    Huge discrepancy between the lab and CoaguChek XS

    First of all hello, this forum and its members were incredibly helpful while learning about valve surgeries I'm a 28 year old male, almost 4 weeks out of my mitral valve replacement, and I've had quite a lot of trouble setting my INR right in this period. We started with a low dose of...
  6. brachikaa

    Foods on warfarin

  7. brachikaa

    Replacement on thursday, can I have some information/support

    Thanks a lot for the advice and kind words! Seems like I gained some composure and bravery while reading your responses on my thread and I'm ready to face the surgery - heads on (until the next irrational thought at least)! :D @pellicle I did quite a lot of research on all of these different...
  8. brachikaa

    Replacement on thursday, can I have some information/support

    First of all thank you for your answer, I've been reading your posts on this forum (including some of threads you attached above) and they helped me a lot to put myself into the 'other side'. I think that I'm just still in a state of denial, I'm not ready to accept that I need this surgery. I am...
  9. brachikaa

    Replacement on thursday, can I have some information/support

    First of all hello! I was lurking this forum ever since I've been diagnosed with my severe mitral valve regurgation, preparing for the inevitable. I was also looking at different forums, but all of them seemed a lot more gloomy and a lot more persuasive in their narrative, and I decided to...
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