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  1. Caitlin

    10 years since I got my valve.

    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...
  2. Caitlin

    I to figure out how to get my INRatio test strips from my new health insurance.

    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...
  3. Caitlin

    Low dose Vit K supplementation for Warfarin users.

    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...
  4. Caitlin

    18 month update

    I had MVR surgery in September of 06. It wwas my second time through the ribe cage. I also got a Maze procedure because I had been in Afib for 4 years and none of the usual meds worked. My surgeon told it might take 6 months for the maze procedure to work. For a long time I didn't post over...
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