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To stay on Eliquis or not

Posted by sandw40 @sandw40, Mar 11, 2021

I was diagnosed with afib on 05/03/2018 while on a 30 monitor because I asked my PCP about the irregular heart beats that were showing up on my pb monitor. I had 2 min 30 sec event that I never felt. I was told that I need to start taking Eliquis which I did 2 5mg daily.
I have tried to find out all the information on my condition that I can. I am 75 year old male with hypertension.

I bought myself a fitbit sense that monitors my heart rate and the ability to take a ekg. I also entered the Fitbit heart survey which lasted from 5/7/2020 to 11/12/2020. During this period no events where recorded in my every day monitoring, no events.

My question is, is Eliquis doing anything for me? My understanding is that clots would only develope because of an afib event. No AFib events, no clots.

Is my thinking correct in that I should be able to stop the Eliquis until I start having events again. When talking about this with the PCP this morning I was left with the statement that it's up to me.

I'm just trying to make some sort of informed descion.
Thank you for any info.
Wayne G

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sacramento25 | @sacramento25 | May 1 10:03am
In reply to @lindy9 "It is your choice and right and great you reached 90 doing so. There are many..." + (show)
@lindy9

It is your choice and right and great you reached 90 doing so. There are many many people on this site though that have had many problems from the advice and drugs recommended by doctors. I personally know people who died as a result of taking doctors advice and meds.

My recommendations are from my experiences and I state so. Everyone is responsible for the choices they take. I offer natural solutions that have worked for me better than many meds and treatments others have had here. Very few doctors give advice that are natural solutions that can work better than meds. That is not what they are taught.

Happy 90'th, but my beast friend was 82, and died because she took advice from doctors.

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Agree with you

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margaretfriel | @margaretfriel | May 1 2:34pm
In reply to @lindy9 "The smell and taste issue are symptoms of covid and vax. Forgive me for being me,..." + (show)
@lindy9

The smell and taste issue are symptoms of covid and vax. Forgive me for being me, and do what you want, but I would wean myself Coumadin, not take Eliquis. And eat a super healthy diet, walk every day, no caffeine, diet low in animal products and sugar and wholegrain foods for fiber. And live my life. READ the side effects from Eliquis and any drug you swallow. Take responsibility for your health. Just google the side effects of any drug.

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If Coumadin is Warfarin, that's the 1st medication I was prescribed ... 2 months after my G.P. diagnosed A-Fib & prescribed Warfarin my Daughter & 2 other friends said to me, "What Did your Dr. Put You ON? You Aren't Yourself ... you've become Very Negative, you don't even Look like yourself, very 'drawn & grumpy'." (Didn't want to admit to myself, I was sleeping a restless 4-5 hr.s per night, had shooting pains in my arms & legs, & felt like I was living in Slo-Motion". Finally 4 months after being put on Coumadin my Cardiologist called the G.P. who'd prescribed it & asked him if he was aware of what it was doing to me, She Felt I should be taken OFF it, it appeared to be doing more damage than good.
Short end of the story, I left that G.P. The cardiologist tried Eliquis & 4 other blood thinners ... All caused side effects that the Pharmaceutical-Patient instruction sheets instructed "See Your Dr. As Soon As Possible if you are having any of these Side Effects". Finally the cardiologist resigned herself that the Only Thing I was going to be able to tolerate was Low Dose Aspirin.
She ordered a battery of 12 or 14 tests, came back & said the tests indicated I have a .03-.06% chance of having a stroke. If A-Fib isn't bothering me, If 98% of the time I don't even know I have A-Fib, "You're One Of The Lucky Ones!"

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margaretfriel | @margaretfriel | May 1 2:53pm
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@predictable

@lindy9, forgive me for my direct response: Over the last 15 years with my sterling medical team, I probably read a lot more about my conditions, symptoms, treatments, medication, and prospects than you'd suspect. I worry that your recommendations will be taken seriously by others who don't have top drawer medical care, risking more than they should. I'll continue to take the advice of my medical team (which has helped me reach my 90th birthday this year) rather than the contrivances of the American food processing industry reflected in their advertising and in the ravings of federal politicians. Martin

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The Food & Drug Companies are #1 in the business of making $$$ ... & they invent & Create products that they hope will keep the Billion$ of $$$ Rolling In. Of Course, their Sales People will tell Food Vendors & Doctors ALL the benefits (they HOPE) will Solve problems their clients are dealing with every day. Even-tho they've done trials & Tests, they're Not going to go in & spend time telling their customers about The Exceptions (Potential down-side). So We, the Buying Public & Patients have to be Alert to the potential risks that possibly MAY come from using their products.
If Your Sterling Medical Team has hit the "Bulls-eye" every time they've prescribe or recommend something, You're One Of The Lucky Ones!
I probably don't need - reminding you - We're Each & Every One Like Snowflakes, (No 2 of us are Alike - what works for 1 isn't necessarily going to work for another.)
Congratulations To You.

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