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AFib - Question about blood thinners
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Mar 7, 2022 | Replies (126)Comment receiving replies
What kinds of effects do you fear? I’m probably biased since I see it as almost saving my life, but I’ve had two very large hematomas - one arm and another in my foot. Since I’ve stopped briefly before for eye surgeries, I stopped for a day or two after the second. My arm got a shot at healing and I didn’t have a stroke. The doctor doesn’t want me to do that (or his staff doesn’t) so I have an appointment to “discuss options” re blood thinners, etc.
I’ve had no other side effects with Eliquis and neither has my husband who takes the same dose but doesn’t have an autoimmune disease that makes healing difficult. In my experience, I’d be more afraid of a stroke than Eliquis.
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But my risk of stroke is low since I have afib once a year. I would love to have short term blood thinners (a week or two) if my episode is longer than 5.5 hours but an echocardiogam was used to make sure no clots. My mother is on Coumadin and has so many problems with bleeding, and anemia as a result. There is risk of bleeding in GI tract or brain. But yeah, if I had more frequent afib with higher risk of stroke, I would prefer blood thinners to stroke. I am delaying them as long as I can and still have afib once a year. That could change over time. MY first episode was 2015.