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So do we need to use sunscreen more on our scar from OHS than any other part of our body? If yes why? Thank you.

Hi Guys, Why are we not suppose to drink green tea on coumadin? Just wondering. Thank you.

I have been prescribed a non-prescription 80mg dose of aspirin each day. What I can gather, and I may be wrong, is that 80mg is a children's dose of aspirin. 81 mgs makes it an adult dose. I find the 81mg bottle very easy to find and you can buy it in fairly large quantities. The 80mg bottle is...

I remember having it in the hospital and now it is one of my tri-weekly medical adventures. I get this fricken mild but noticeable ear ache in my left ear. I have had my inner ear looked at by two doctors who saw nothing. I don't think it is serious. It eventually goes away and gets taken over...

Great surgery only 2.5 hours. Good week in the hospital. Yes hit by a bus a few days but to be expected. Released home to my parents. As isolated as I could get. Sure enough my 12 year who stays over here two nights a week comes home with a stomach flu that 16 out of 27 kids in his class get...

Hello, I am 8 days post AVR. I was getting a little stir crazy so I though I would do a little light gardening. Not long into it I felt my eyes rolling back and I nearly fainted. I know now I probably should not have been doing this but what do you think could have happened? Would it be worth...

Hello, Do you feel a difference in a INR drop or raise? Thank you. John.

I was doing a random search on the internet today about what a on-x valve looks like(I have seen one but wanted to have another look). Anyway one of the links I end up clicking on directs me to a post on this forum on February 10 2005. The post was by Randy and Robyn and it was sharing the one...

My surgery went incredibly well last Tuesday. I think God had just so much prayer thrown at him he could do nothing but oversee things go well. My AVR only took two hours no complications. Very smooth. It was pretty much what everybody had said it would be. Nothing was really thrown at me I...

My surgery is tomorrow and all I can think about is dying. I am sure I am too tired to live through this. The pressure is unbelievable. The last six months of waiting all comes down to three hours tomorrow. The rest of my life comes down to three hours tomorrow. I am worried I am not going to...

Hello, It has been a long time since I have been on here. I finally have a surgery date. April 13. Been waiting since October. I am not up to date here. Is anyone on clopidogrel? I was asked, if I qualify, to be on a trial study that could randomize me to be on clopidogrel. What does anyone...

I seem to be reading more and more about people having aneurysms (near the aortic) . Some detected before surgery, some being larger than expected. Are these usually noticed from a cat scan? Some cases it isn't a problem the surgeon fixes them or removes them I guess. Other times it seems to be...

How long after you were told you needed a valve replacement did you actually have the surgery done? I was told about six weeks ago I should have an AVR done "sooner rather than later". I was told by my cardiologist I needed to have a cat scan done to see if anything else should be done at the...

I had a very hard time sleeping with the wind up alarm clocks that ticked in my room. I had to switch to digital. Is the clicking like an alarm clock that could keep me awake? Is it possible to get a pigs valve and then in ten years a mechanical? I've also heard testing is being done that...

Please allow me to introduce myself.No it is not the Stones song. My name is John Calderwood. I am 41, and will soon be getting an aortic valve replacement Still waiting for the results of a cat scan (or whatever they call it) to see if anything else needs to be done while they are in there...