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Does anyone with AFIB NOT take blood thinners?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jan 23 9:08am | Replies (149)Comment receiving replies
I have paroxysmal afib with tachycardia, about once a year. One cardio doc continually pressed me to go on blood thinners and I declined. A few years later they removed the female factor from one of the CHADS scores and the doc was no longer obliged to pressure me. He later said that I had been right and that docs had been overmedicating.
The local hospital cardiologist one told me to "go home and forget this happened"!
I always land in ambulance and ER.
My latest episode was long at 7 hours. That hospital cardio did an echo to make sure I hadn't formed any clots. So far so good.
My mother has been on Warfarin for a long time and has bleeds. She also has vascular dementia and it makes sense that Warfarin would be contributing. That said, when she went off for a procedure, she had a stroke.
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I had an ablation procedure years ago for intermittent AFib. It worked but I notice that if I eat too much salt, I will have a short episode (2-3 hours). I do not take blood thinners. I take a low mg. aspirin once a day but if Afib hits me, I take a full dose of regular strength aspirin right away (2 tabs). My doctor has never recommended blood thinners but is insistent upon the one low mg. aspirin a day. I take it with the evening meal. I take no medicines at all for Afib.
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That's terrible what both you and your mother are having to deal with. I'm relatively new having only 2 A-fib episodes. First one in Feb. and second one three weeks later, be pause of being prescribed albuterol. That medication set it off the second time. My cardiologist didn't pressure me into taking a blood thinner. I will be seeing him in a month. So far so good.