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Hi HarrietW I am someone who can feel for you right now as I have also recently had a couple of blows to my health recently. I too just had my first grandson last August, so I know what that means to you too. I don't know how much I will be posting here, probably not like I did the first time I...

Thank you all for your kind responses. I wrote that on the fly, not realizing that my tricuspid valve is starting to leak badly enough that I fainted upon walking uphill a bit on January 3rd, 2017. It took a second episode of syncope May 1 to get the echo that revealed the tricuspid leak and...

I meant to come over here on my actual anniversary, but forgot until I saw a website somewhere with people asking the most simple questions about warfarin. I made a post about how I found you guys in 2003 when I first learned I would need a new valve. I was already on warfarin for A-fib -and...

I am in receipt of my first box of test strips ordered through ebay! The price is a tiny bit LESS than the copay for the equivalent was before. I like this. So thanks for being here and having great answers to questions!

Wow! Thank you! It never occurred to me to try that. I certainly will as Amazon and Ebay are two of my favorites online shopping sites. I would rather do that, than try to convince the insurance, LOL!

Hello folks I am happy you are all still here and online as I could use some experience and thoughts to allow me to be able to keep monitoring my INR at home. Healthnet Jade will not cover my INRatio test strips: neither will Medicare (or so Edgepark the company that supplied me told me). The...

My most profound kudos to the best forum moderator in the business! I wish he could get an Oscar for being so good at what he did. I was one of the biggest fools to ever visit this forum, or the one before this one, rather, but he suffered me with a wonderful sense of humor that extended and...

I can't help but remember Cristina for the rest of my life. She was a positive force for exercise and companionship with our walks in the Mall and lunch afterward with a small group of folks- some of whom are still having the lunch- if not the exercise ;). I am so happy to see she affected...

Hugs and kisses to Christina. She had a gift for bringing people together. She made potholders for everyone at the lunches one year. Mine are still in use. I think of her when I use them. She is one person I am sure is in heaven. Blessings to her beloved family at this sad anniversary.

It makes so much sense to me. Glad for your feedback!

LINK Hi Al, Hi all. Anyone familiar with this? I have long thought it was a fascinating idea. We need a standardized amount of VIT K as much as we need to keep our INR in range. Why not take Vit K and balance Warfarin to that? It looks like some beginnings are being made to do this. Anyway...

Shortly after I joined vr the first time in '03 or so, Christina invited me to take a walk with her, then have lunch. I met Pam and Joanie. The three of them had lunch together on Tuesdays. They were the first VR lunch meetings. I was welcomed by this trio and always enjoyed lunch with them...

It is really interesting to hear about a really anti-metoprolol body. And good to know this med can make someone react so extremely. I am glad other options were available to chris! What is making me want to post is that I started taking metoprolol for a-fib. I have taken 200mg a day for about...

Thank you Karlynn, I meant no harm. I didn't not intend to insult Hens or GB I just said they never took to (cottoned to)me. Isn't that the truth? I am so sorry Hens is hurt by that. I was perhaps not even expressing the truth, just my feelings. here is what I said. If any of you think it's an...

There is no war going on, on my part. I am sorry if any of you interpret it that way. I did not wish to say vaguely that "people were mean to me, so I quit" So when I was talking about why I quit, I wanted to be specific. My writing is much stronger than I am. I guess I’m a Chihuahua and lots of...

Hi Folks This is a long and thoughtful post. I joined this forum in 2003, after I'd had a completely unexpected bypass surgery. And then they told me I had a bad mitral valve. That meant a second surgery! When I found this forum, I positively sucked in all the info available. I studied up in...

I was put on Metoprolol for rate control. I have been on it since 2003. I have a pacemaker so it doesn't make my BP go too low. Among drugs, metroprolol is relatively benign and has few side effects for most people. I am fond of it actually. It really works for me. I think now that I am mostly...

You seemed to have gotten that first job fast, so no doubt you will get another one when you are ready. "When you are ready" is the operative term.;) Please don't overextend yourself again. Pneumonia is not just the sniffles! Do you design for your job? If so, the right job will come your way...

I had rather intractible Afib. I was put on Amiorarone. I actually had side effects The lights from oncoming traffic at night had huge halos that seemed to extend to my side of the street. Really scary. I asked to be taken off and I was and the Afib came back. I asked for rate control and got it...

Thanks Phyllis.:) I was incredibly depressed after my first operation, so much so I realized it was better if I withdrew from this forum, rather than be grumpy and oppositional. And when I came back after my second operation, my ejection fraction was still around 35%. I still had trouble...