prn blood thinner helps against stroke how soon? December 02, 2020 04:38PM |
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I asked an EP I highly respect that exact same question once. His answer was, "Why wait? Just take it as soon as an episode begins."
He's right. There's no consensus on how long it takes for clots to form during an AF episode, and at least one study has shown it can be as fast as 6 minutes. Following some randomly chosen period of time to wait accomplishes nothing, and might incur risk.
Re: prn blood thinner helps against stroke how soon? December 02, 2020 10:26PM |
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i think your 6 min. time line for a clot to form after going into AF is not in line with most thinking.
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Re: prn blood thinner helps against stroke how soon and HOW LONG? December 07, 2020 03:33PM |
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Is eliquis 100% guaranteed in preventing a stroke.
Re: prn blood thinner helps against stroke how soon? December 09, 2020 12:53AM |
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Is eliquis 100% guaranteed in preventing a stroke.
That's a straw man question.
There's no 100% guarantee of anything in medicine, but Eliquis does provide a predictable, reliable, proven level of risk reduction. So do all the other FDA-approved anticoagulants. I don't know of anything else that can make that claim.
Re: prn blood thinner helps against stroke how soon? December 10, 2020 10:13AM |
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Speaking from experience - a STROKE is way worse than any AFIB event. You want to avoid a stroke more than a heart attack, more than cancer, more than picking fights with Harley gangs. Knowing the variability of OTC supplements I would not trust avoiding a stroke to anything less that the best NOACs that exist today. To me - eliquis is a life and death matter to take on time, without fail and as far as I am concerned I'm OK with it for the rest of my life. Stroke is a bitch. Even minor stroke, even TIA stroke. YOU DON'T WANT IT.