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Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Nov 11, 2023 | Replies (39)
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If you cut yourself do you
Bleed a lot, how many times a day do you take blood thinners? Did they open up your whole sternum? If they did, the wire they use to hold your sternum in place to heal do they go back in and take them out?

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Richard Schneider | @rickschneider | Sep 6, 2023

Not a lot of problems with bleeding. I sometimes think that I may not even need blood thinners, that there is so much velocity across the valve, that clots may not even form. But I don't want to be the test case for that.

I take thinners once per day, at bedtime. I test INR usually once per month. Finger poke usually.

Wires are still there.

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