Posted on 01/31/2025 5:40:55 AM PST by Red Badger
You won't feel the one that 'gets' you. My mother-in-law's boyfriend just died of a stroke back in September. She said he said, "I feel dizzy," and dropped dead and that was it..................
90% of older daily aspirin users who have a bleeding incident are also taking a prescription blood thinner!
That personal decision is so stupid, I do not even know what to say.
Are there studies for older daily aspirin users who do NOT take a blood thinner?
My own instinctive guess - the aspirin users are healthier than the non-users.
I used to take a blood thinner, Eliquis, for two months after my quad by-pass. $1000 per month was excruciating!................$5 for a bottle of aspirin is much better!..........
I have -
1. Type 2 diabetes
2. Borderline high blood pressure
3. My Triglyceride cholesterol is high, NOT good.
4. My LDL cholesterol is low, good.
5. My HDL cholesterol is high, good.
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My diet is pretty healthy.
I get a decent amount of exercise (in warm weather, anyway…)
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My self-prognosis is - I will live, until I no longer do.
And have a reasonably healthy & fun time doing it!
By the way - I’m 60.
Follow the science, but be ready to zig zag.
I’m 70 and that sounds just like me!............
“…research indicates that about 29 million Americans with no previous heart disease are still taking aspirin for prevention. About 6.6 million do so without a physician’s recommendation.”
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I used to be in that latter group, until these studies came out, when I stopped taking a daily aspirin…then last summer I had a heart attack caused by a blood clot.
I will never know if that heart attack would have been prevented if I had kept taking the aspirin, but I strongly suspect that this is the case. Ironically enough, the 911 operator told my wife to give me 4 baby aspirins to chew while waiting for the paramedics to show up. Now I m on aspirin, another blood thinner (because I have 3 stents), a statin (which I am hoping to get rid of or decrease the dosage of) and blood pressure meds (and my BP wasn’t all that high, but this prevents damage to the arteries that causes further plaque build-up).
Lesson learned: Big Pharma absolutely HATES it when people take cheap OTC meds or nutrients to stay healthy, and they’re willing to spend many millions to finance studies to scare people into stopping such treatment in order to make a few bucks. I will take all such studies with the appropriate seriousness (basically, none) going forward. I advise everyone else to read, read, read to understand medical science as best as possible for their own benefit, and understand how the flow of money affects the studies undertaken and breathlessly reported in the media.
You can always take acetylsalicylic acid instead.
My blood is thin, it is what saved my life long enough to get on aspirin when I was diagnosed with clot shot. One full aspirin a day was prescribed, which I took for about a year until I started having bruises. I cut to one small aspirin a day.
One study I read found that a small aspirin every third day still held thinning properties. That study was for normal people, not those with clot shot. My thinner blood allows me to be on that routine even though I still have the Fauci clots.
Occasionally I have a small pain in one spot in my calf which apparently is clotting. I temporarily up my aspirin a little.
“This “dietary cholesterol causes heart attacks” myth needs to be thrown out.”
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Yes, it is nonsense. That’s like thinking that just because there are a lot of firemen present when there’s a fire, that they caused it. No, just like firemen, cholesterol is present in your artery walls (as PART of plaque) to deal with an already existing and underlying problem…in this case, inflammation and micro-tearing in the arteries, caused by too much insulin for too long, in turn caused by too much carbs in the diet.l (some people say too much sugar, but your body deals with ALL carbs (except fiber) in the same way, with an increase in insulin).
But simply reducing carbs will lessen the need for both statins and diabetes medications, so Big Pharma spends millions every years to continue to blame cholesterol for heart disease when it is a mere symptom.
The research into the best chicken parmigiana / eggplant parmigiana
and best crab cakes in the mid-Atlantic region is proceeding quite well.
I think my health & diet priorities are about correct.
Of course there is no vegetable nor fruit gardening going on here now
because it is cold as a witches elbow right now - and I’m still in the
construction phase of greenhouse building. When the greenhouse(s)
are complete, I will then be knee deep is fresh salads!
But I’m still working on it at the moment…
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I'm now 86 years old and have no sign of cardiovascular disease.
I have never used tobacco (except for a few youthful indiscretions), hardly drink alcohol at all, eat seafood but no other meat; limit NaCl, cholesterol, saturated fats; watch diet carefully; exercise regularly.
My internist said to me, "You have beaten the curse."
Apparently so.
Every morning I weigh and take blood pressure--three readings in the left arm, three in the right arm, then record and graph the average. This keeps me honest with myself. I take Ozempic 2 mg every week, necessary to keep my weight down though I eat very little--my metabolism!
I used to exercise vigorously, had to stop running because of my knee. I now walk briskly at 3.5 miles/hour on the treadmill for 30 minutes every day. That seems to do it.
My wife has a similar schedule and health status. She taught me a lot about self-discipline.
All this health care pays off. Once you get in the habit, it's easy.
EXACTLY!!!
Death to carbs, have a steak instead!
I drink maybe 3 cups of coffee a day.
I quit drinking alcohol years ago. Drank enough in my Marine Corps youth to last me a lifetime.
Try reading this:
Congratulations!
Bookmarked. I will have a look-see when I have the time. Thanks!
good logic.
And tinnitus
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