Now taking a baby aspirin daily because of my Watchman Procedure.
Off of Eliquis
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Congrats. That’s an expensive medication.
I’m lucky enough to have found a discount card for it.
Feel free to cut your finger on accident and bleed a normal amount
I’m lucky enough to have found a discount card for it.
Feel free to cut your finger on accident and bleed a normal amount
That is a great achievement, my mom (age 88) also on Friday had confirmation the watchman was fully healed and she is off Pradaxa. I encourage everyone to do their best and ask for the same procedure if you qualify. Blood thinners are not good long term solutions.
Blanket statements like this are misguided. You are not a doctor, so, you see only a small view of the larger picture.
For some conditions, blood thinners are the only option.
Well, blood thinners, or an early death.
Awesome. Luckily my afib was discovered while in the hospital after breaking my ankle and the PE’s that followed from a nasty blood clot in the broken ankle.
Follow up testing discovered a blood clot inside my heart from the disrupted blood flow and I’ve been on Eliquis ever since.
After several cardioversions and two ablations I’ve felt great for the last four years.
Bleeding like a stuck pig is certainly inconvenient especially as much as I work on cars but I feel so much better now I’m willing to put up with it.
To anyone reading this if you’re feeling tired or sluggish and often short of breath please get checked out. Most, like I did, dismiss it as getting old but it’s not worth playing it off. Get checked out. I’m 62 now and honestly feel like I’m thirty since the doctor and drugs fixed me.
Follow up testing discovered a blood clot inside my heart from the disrupted blood flow and I’ve been on Eliquis ever since.
After several cardioversions and two ablations I’ve felt great for the last four years.
Bleeding like a stuck pig is certainly inconvenient especially as much as I work on cars but I feel so much better now I’m willing to put up with it.
To anyone reading this if you’re feeling tired or sluggish and often short of breath please get checked out. Most, like I did, dismiss it as getting old but it’s not worth playing it off. Get checked out. I’m 62 now and honestly feel like I’m thirty since the doctor and drugs fixed me.
My brother is a 30+ year senior anesthesiologist, try to hold the itch you have there for your own blanket statements. I stand by my own. Blood thinners can be a necessity but also come with severe downsides. I am disappointed that the Watchman isn’t offered to more people in general.
So, not exactly a hematologist, but all the same, ask your brother about anti-phospholipid. See what he recommends, even if it is outside his field.
For some people, some conditions, like the above, anticoagulants are live-saving, and absolutely necessary. The downsides of those medications are far less severe than the consequences of the disease.
Besides, aspirin is, in fact, an anticoagulant.
So, the OP didn’t actually get off blood thinners, he just switched types.
