Posted on 07/22/2019 4:58:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
CBS is just reporting. They aren't generating the medical advice.
Hate to tell you, but they are right and your doctors are wrong. Even about the stents.
Are those the same people who said “Don’t eat eggs” and soon after said “Eggs are good for you”? Then they said we are in for an ice age, no make that global warming, no wait make that climate change.
They want us to die to stop drawing social security checks.
Everybody is different and my biggest pet peeve with the medical profession is the “one size fits all” approach.
Low-dose aspirin is still recommended for some cancer patients.
Same here.
‘Like Prilosec a few years ago until they found it contributed to dementia’
And contributes to kidney failure. And we won’t even bring up statins.
>>Actually,our baby aspirin is Yellow.<<<
Double Dittos here Dave
Experience has taught me to be careful whom to tell this but...ain't no such thing as "baby aspirin." It's a persistent cultural carryover so deeply ingrained no one believes you when you explain it no longer exists. (Reye's Syndrome)
“It’s a persistent cultural carryover so deeply ingrained no one believes you when you explain it no longer exists. (Reye’s Syndrome)
You are correct.
It is only a baby in the sense it has a lower dose.
everything you say is true, but keep in mind that the point of aspirin therapy for those with existing coronary artery disease is to help prevent blood clots form forming and if they do form to slow them down enough to get into a cath lab before you die ...
Vito Corleone understands
Just hope you don't get the wrong stroke. My brother was given blood thinner to prevent a clot stroke. They regularly tested it and one time they found his blood was TOO thin. They told him to stop taking it right away. The next day he had a bleeding stroke that ultimately killed him.
As was hinted to earlier, when it comes to strokes it depends on whether you're at risk for ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke. With the latter, an aspirin regimen will shorten your journey to the afterlife.
“The new recommendation doesn’t apply to people who already have had a stroke or heart attack, or who have undergone bypass surgery or a procedure to insert a stent in their coronary arteries.
These individuals already have cardiovascular disease and should continue to take low-dose aspirin daily, or as recommended by their health care provider, to prevent another occurrence, said Michos, associate director of preventive cardiology at the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Maryland.”
Do take a daily aspirin if you’ve already had a heart attack or stroke or have existing heart disease. “In these people there’s clear evidence that it significantly lowers their risk of a second cardiovascular event,” Goldberg explains. This is because aspirin is an antiplatelet medication, which means it prevents your platelets from clumping together and forming blood clots that can trigger a heart attack or stroke. You also need aspirin if you already have heart disease. “You may not have been hospitalized for heart surgery, for example, but if you’ve had a coronary calcium scan and there’s plaque in your arteries, then you’re considered to have heart disease,” she says. In these cases you’ll still benefit from aspirin.
https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2019/preventive-aspirin-recommendations.html
Me? I am watching my diet and running still. In my 60s and plan to keep running as long as I can. Don’t take aspirin on a regular basis, but have never had a moment’s problem when I do.
When doctors can figure out if a low-carb diet is good or not - and it is the only way I’ve had any success keeping weight off - MAYBE I’ll listen to them on other things. Until then, I eat eggs, drink coffee, avoid sugar & flour, eat veggies, red meat and go for runs.
I had a tripple bypass at UCSF about 5 years ago and continue to take .81 aspirin to prevent clots...
...and promote transgender surgeries.
If the shoe fits.
Sounds like breakfast to me. Well maybe not the aspirin.
“I had a tripple bypass at UCSF about 5 years ago and continue to take .81 aspirin to prevent clots”
I’m in worse shape: i have such a propensity to clot that i now have to take both 75mg Clopidogrel(Plavix) AND .81 aspirin every day for the rest of my life ...
sorry to hear that
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