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To: Tennessee Conservative

The big problem with a-fib is the probability of a blood clot formimg. You normally go on a blood thinner.


23 posted on 03/31/2014 12:54:59 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ~Voltaire)
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To: Clay Moore

Right. Mine is not actually Afib, or at least the doctor didn’t say it was. The doctor said it’s “an Afib like disorder caused by stress”. I take an aspirin a day instead of the normal blood thinners just to be on the safe side because if I get really tired I can feel a slight bit but nothing like it was. I also get checked annually to check for any artery blockages that might be dislodged but they have never found any and since I retired the problem seems to have pretty much stopped. It got so bad while I was working that they put me on short-term disability for a while and a month before I retired they put me on a temporary 40-hour a week restriction. I decided the best thing I could do was retire. So far I don’t have anymore problems with it.


30 posted on 03/31/2014 2:20:07 PM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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