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Well, been told i need one, family history and slight bleeding so got to bite the bullet.... Anyway, just wanted to summarise the other threads out there and prepare myself for the first visit to the GI doc so i can be confident and stand my ground with regards the anticoagulation stance...

Probably twice now (most recently today) i've had a weird experience. I was sitting in a meeting and using a laptop, looked up and the room was kinda spinning in the same direction. If i kept my eyes open it sped up. If i closed my eyes i knew it was still happening but it felt less. It...

***** Through a scheduling mix up, a man and a woman who have never met before find themselves in the same sleeping carriage of a train. It's late, the train is full, and everyone else is already asleep. After the initial embarrassment, they both manage to get to sleep; the woman on the top...

With the recent surveys on tv & music by knightfan2691 i was wondering what everyone's top 5 / top 10 websites were as the TV here is getting boring and i've got a very limited number of websites that i visit. www.google.com.au/news www.bbc.co.uk/sport www.valvereplacement.com/forums...

Who of you out there with BAV or aortic aneursym's have also taken the step to get a full scan done to check for other aneursym's using an MRI or CT scan? I mentioned it to my cardio at the last check up and he didn't seem keen saying that it was very rare and that no-one he'd ever seen had...

Just back from hols and had a bit of a hiccup on day one.... I burnt myself in the sun (spent all the time covering kids in cream and forgot myself)...not completely....did my face, ears, neck but forgot legs. Anyway, end of day one my lower legs were burnt as were the tops of my feet....ouch...

This is an FYI post for anyone who perhaps has an interest or connection to the mens health areas of depression and/or colon cancer. There is a charity event called MOVEMBER which runs during the month of november. It runs in England, Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Spain.......see...

Just got the thumbs up from my cardio after the second post surgery visit. He's asked me to gradually cut down my beta blockers to nothing over the next month or so. That will leave me on coudamin (5mg daily) lipitor (One 40mg tab daily) and 2.5mg of coversyl daily. The first few days of beta...

Going on my first interstate trip since surgery 9months ago. Going to be in the gold coast near brisbane for a conference next week, 6th-10th August. If there are any auzzy members who fancy a drink then drop me a line on [email protected] and i will see if our schedules meet...

Well, its been a while since my surgery (nov06) and i haven't engaged in any form of stuctured exercise at all. Although i've been very active and healthy and feel great. The theory i use to justify this break is that if i'd repaired a hosepipe i wouldn't put the tap on full turn until it had...

Well its been 8 months since surgery and an hour ago i was tidying out the pill drawer and found my heart monitor so i thought, hey, stick it on and see what the reading is. Well walking around its about 75/80 where before it was around 95. Sitting here typing its around 65. I guess that is...

Just a quicky guys, I seem to be comming down with the common cold, feeling a little lousy, runny nose, sinus pressure, headache etc. Just wondering what affect this tends to have on INR if at all, does it go high or go low? Have taken a few paracetamol over the past two days, i'm not very...

Yahoo, finally bought the home tester and it arrived today. Gonna mess and test with it over the weekend. One quick question, the finger pricker comes with disposable needles that it says to change with each test. Does everyone do this? or do you just wipe with a sterile pad and use again...

Well after doing next to nothing since surgery in november other than life in general with two kids the works indoor cricket team were short one body so i kinda volunteered to be a warm corpse in a game of indoor cricket. I was a little worried about getting hit in the head but decided that i...

mmm sitting at work after my wife was ill all weekend, she was tired, felt like being sick but wasn't, had a lack of appetite and was very loose at the bottom end (diarreha (how dow you spell that))... Well i struggled to eat my cereal this morning, i feel off in the stomach and have just been...

Just posed one and it dissappeared so if this appears twice apologies.... inr 2.2 on 6/5/6/5 rotation inr 2.5 on 6/6/5/6/6/5 rotation inr 2.8 on above inr 2.8 started taking lipitor so reduced back to 6/5/6/5 inr 3.5 oops advised to reduce warfarin dose by gp So whats the general concensus as...

Well after 12 weeks i'm back to work tomorrow (monday 12th)...:mad: It's been great having the time off to spend with the kids (even though i had to have ohs to get that time off). Although i'd love more time off (and could probably swing it if i wanted) the money has ran out and i need to...

Anyone noticed their heartbeat change in the months after surgery? Mine was quite irregular after surgery with lots of pauses at irregular intervals...the surgeon/cardiologist said this was how it was before its just that the mechanical valve ticking has made it more noticeable... Well lying...

I've been keeping an eye on this forum for a little while as i knew i was going to need a home monitor after surgery. A thread i read before chrismas seemed to indicate that the coagucheck XS was the best machine (but at the time it wasn't available in the US). Is this still the general...

This is just a shout out for a second opinion on what i'm doing to make sure my logic is ok... My INR has been pretty stable since surgery. I have altered my dose slightly on a couple of occasions since surgery for valid changes in circumstances...more activity & range change. The latest...