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I'm finally home! In the hospital, they were giving me 2 vicodin every ~4 hours (which seemed like a lot to me), and that's what they prescribed me for home as well. That dosing works out to 6000 mg of acetaminophen/24 hours which is way over the recommended max dose, but it worked - I had...

Hi all! Just got back from the hospital last night with my shiny new On-X 31/33 Mitral Valve. Turns out that I had a case of pneumonia that was just getting started going in, and so recovery took a little longer than it would have otherwise (8 days in hospital). Doc managed to keep my...

I've been on warfarin for about a month due to afib, and next week, I'm getting a mechanical mitral valve. I am not impressed with the responsiveness or organization of the nurses at my cardiologist who do INR management - they don't return phone calls, they get annoyed if I test 'too often'...

I've seen many of you refer to the excellent information that had, in the past, been available at warfarininfo.com. Unfortunately for those of us who are new to coumadin, that site no longer seems to exist. The wayback machine has an archived copy of it at...

Hello, I'm 29, in a-fib with a severely stenosed and calcified mitral valve. My cardiologist put me on warfarin for my a-fib. The surgeon who is performing my surgery has told me that since I'm young, in good shape, and only dealing with a-fib + a stenosed/calcified native valve, I don't need...

Hello! Glad to be finally making my first post - after two registrations and lots of waiting, it's nice to be in. I'm 29 years old, and have a severely stenosed, highly calcified mitral valve. Apparently I had rheumatic fever as a child - very rare in North America, I guess I just got lucky...