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Richard
Hi
I had my surgery 1st December. Generally I am doing great but just have 2 questions if anyone can help:
I still have a fair bit of pain in the top right side of my chest, I am still taking low grade pain killers but the pain gets bad at times, espcially at night, the pain is especially bad when I breath in, it feels just like a pulled muscle but has been going on now for 2 weeks so not sure it can be, any ideas?
My surgeon said I should have an INR of 2.0. This has been failry steady to date hovering around 1.9/1.8 etc and they have amended warfarin dose , now I take 5mg. I had test yesterday and the INR had gone to 2.8 but doctor( local GP not surgeon) said to leave dose at 5mg. I questioned as this seemed a little strange, after a further conversation they now say take 4mg one day, 5mg the next day and so on and go back Tuesday. Concerns me they also say the INR should really be around 3.0 but that conflicts with surgeon. I get impression this is as new to them as me and I dont have a great deal of confidence in them. Any thoughts/questions to ask would be much appreciated
Thanks
I had my surgery 1st December. Generally I am doing great but just have 2 questions if anyone can help:
I still have a fair bit of pain in the top right side of my chest, I am still taking low grade pain killers but the pain gets bad at times, espcially at night, the pain is especially bad when I breath in, it feels just like a pulled muscle but has been going on now for 2 weeks so not sure it can be, any ideas?
My surgeon said I should have an INR of 2.0. This has been failry steady to date hovering around 1.9/1.8 etc and they have amended warfarin dose , now I take 5mg. I had test yesterday and the INR had gone to 2.8 but doctor( local GP not surgeon) said to leave dose at 5mg. I questioned as this seemed a little strange, after a further conversation they now say take 4mg one day, 5mg the next day and so on and go back Tuesday. Concerns me they also say the INR should really be around 3.0 but that conflicts with surgeon. I get impression this is as new to them as me and I dont have a great deal of confidence in them. Any thoughts/questions to ask would be much appreciated
Thanks