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This is an email that I sent to On-x today. Thought I would share it with you. Dear Ms. Doty: Pertaining to your e-mail below, the PROACT study still has over a year to go before we can even hope to publish preliminary results. Patients within the study were asked to commit to five years of...

Just curious about wether Plavix is any better than coumadin if I had a choice. Thinking about the OnX trials and I dont know that it would be any advantage really to be on Plavix instead of coumadin other than the fact that i wouldn't have to check my INR and I guess there arent as many...

ok. so last week I decided to tey the P90X ab ripper video. It is a really hard ab video even for me. I have been doing 400 crunches almost every day for the last year and this video hurt! Anyway, I did the video on Thursday and on Sunday I had what felt like a little muscular pain in the left...

I had my one year post op echo done today. I told the ultrasound tech that I had a mechanical aortic valve before she started my echo. So, during my echo she asked me a second time if I had a mechanical valve. I figured she should be able to tell by looking at it on the echo. I have watched many...

yay! it's been a year ago this week. What a happy year it has been! By the way, I ride my horse yesterday for the first time. It was a little scary at first but it went well. Wore a helmet of course and I am being very cautious. Here is a little "sermon" I felt compelled to write this morning...

My knees have been bothering me this week and I wondered if rubbing a little Bengay on them would affect my INR. I doubt it because I am not using tons of it and don't plan on using it all the time. The main ingredient is methyl silicate which I think is aspirin. I know aspirin won't acceft my...

Why can you get a blood glucose monitor basically for free when INR monitors are so expensive? They look to me like they are constructed basically the same but just measure a different part of your blood. Just doesn't make sense that a piece of medical equipment can be marked up so much! That...

This is the first time I have needed any new meds since I started taking coumadin so I am new to the frustration of the lack of knowledge out there. I thought I had a knowledgable pharmacist but today i asked her what I could take for a yeast infection while i'm on coumadin and she told me...

Since my AVR 8 weeks ago I have been a lot more cold sensitive. I was one of those people who didn't wear a jacket in winter when everyone else was bundled up. I don't even own long sleeve shirts because I always got hot and had to strip down especially indoors in the winter. Now my toes...

has anyone had problems with aching legs and restless legs after valve replacements? Whenever I lay down to try and take a nap or go to bed my legs start aching like i need to keep moving them around. If I lie on my sides it's not as bad but it keeps me up at night. Maybe it has to do with...

Anyone know how long Dacron grafts are rated for? I was so worried about makinf the right valve choice that I never thought to ask about that. I guess there is no choice for aortic root replacement is there? Oh well already done anyways but I was just think about my lovely mechanical valve...

It's pretty long this time around because I had about a 6 inch scar from my original Ross then I had another 2.5 inch scar just below that from a pericardial window. So this time around they went from about a 1/2 inch above my original scar all the way down to the bottom of my window scar. The...

I had my post op appt. with the surgeon yesterday and he says everything is looking great! I do have a slight pleural rub that they think will go away with time. When I take a deep breathe and hold it my valve is really loud and thumps hard, but nothing to worry about, just something I noticed...

I still have non desolvable sutures in where my drain tubes were and i am not scheduled to get them out till next Tuesday. They are getting red and irritated. Just wondering how long these normally stay in for and if I should call my doc. Also the top of my incision is weepy and red and has...

Well I made thru! I got out of the hospital yesterday and am doing really good. I had a lot of scar tissue for the surgeon to get thru so my surgery was about 7.5 hours. They gave my an on-x aorta and replaced my aortic root with a graft (can't remember the name). I am on 3 mg warfarin right...

i have had a cold for 3 weeks now and have alredy taken antibiotics. i just finished them yesterday and i am still sick. i feel like i am getting better every day and i have until next wed. the 19th. it is mainley just sinuses draining with an occasional cough. i called my surgeon today and am...

I am not on coumadin yet but will probably be soon. I read thru the warfarin.com site and it eased a lot of my fears accept for the part where it talks about if you bump your head it can take a few days to find out for sure if you are ok. It says you should be very careful with head injuries...

I had the Ross procedure 8 years ago when i was 19 and my AV has been leaking since then. Now it's time for a second AVR and I am very indecisive as to which valve to choose. I am really scared to be on warfarin forever and have questions about the long term effects on the body (liver or...