I can just see how popular this is going to be with doctors... not.
This stop with low dose aspirin came out in 2022 at the height of medical chicanery and fraud and should be discounted.
The problem is that aspirin is cheap and doesn’t need a prescription. They want you on Plavix instead. The cost for Plavix 75 mg oral tablet is around $799 for a supply of 90 tablets.
This is the new trend. Women shouldn’t get pap smears, or mammograms, men shouldn’t get a PSA test, etc etc.
Big medicine has turned against us.
And this anti-aspirin jihad started when aspirin was getting used for covid. They would ban it if they could. Or heavily restricted, like in Europe.
I was put on a full aspirin a day (plus other meds) when I was diagnosed with clot shot (I’m over 70). After a period of time I started getting bruising & some bleeding. I cut back to one small aspirin per day.
I had been on the daily for a year or more when I read a study that showed people could get by on one small aspirin every third day. That’s what I’m on now. I always run this past my providers.
The operative phrase in this study is “ primary prevention.”
The advice to not use aspirin was intended to apply to people taking it only to prevent a first event. The evidence weakly suggested that the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding outweighed the reduction of a first heart attack or stroke.
This article does not make it clear that in patients who have had a heart attack or stroke/TIA, that the benefit of aspirin greatly exceeds the risk. DO NOT STOP aspirin, regardless of age, if you have known cardiovascular disease!
We have used aspirin (willow bark) for literally thousands of years, with few, well-known side effects.
The newer drugs the pharmaceutical companies want us to take are questionable at best.
I’ll stick with my ASA, thanks.
Throughout, my cardiac reports have been excellent, with the diuretic discontinued, and the valsartan and metoprolol cut back to the lowest amounts available. But the amount of asporin has stayed the same. Reports of intensive tests by the cardiologist specialist have shown the heart function to be comparable to that of a healthy teen-age athlete.
I am now 88 and getting older day by day without false anxiety. But I do have a very good well-known brand of heart monitor device and use it regularly, keeping records to plot out the status week-by=week, month-by=month for the last 14 years.
A note:
for many years from the mid-forties my weight had been trending on the high side, inching up. At my wellness exam of Dec. 2019 my weight was up to 230 lb. So from that point, thiugh my heart function was still OK, I determined to practice prudence, being watchfful about my food rations -- but without "dieting" -- staying attentive by checking often, my weight was dropping little by little such that by 2022 ny weight was down to 180, and since that at this point it is now 160, with no pot belly for quite a while.
(Avoiding sugar- or corn-syrup-laden foods pretty strictly; stevia or a little honey sweeteners only; but lots of eggs and milk and butter all along.)
I don't see any reason to cease the regular dosage of aspirin. I hardly ever feel a need to resort to any other pain-lillers, not experiencing much (if any) regular muscle or head aches.
Be advised.
I took the 81mg for probably 20+ years but quit about 8 years ago.
A keeper article.