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It's called Plavix and it's to stop the platelets in the blood becoming sticky and blocking the stents which were done in 2005. But I was up and walking about 14 hrs later with no pain or discomfort If you're in pain go to your GP cos that's not right I know lots of people had it done and no one had a problem and done at different hospitals different years.

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Hazel darlin' I think Plavix and Warfarin are similar. Like you I will be taking anti-coagulents (Warfarin) for the rest of my life.

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Hazel I have been on Clopidogrel now for two and a half years, I too am likely to be on it for the rest of my life.
But only this weekend they discovered I have a build up in the ferumel artery in the thigh, and once again I shall have another angiogram with hopefully a stent.
That will be my fourth.
And I really do stick to a "eat for your heart diet".

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I take Warfarin too that thins the blood plavix alters the sort of texture of it, have to take both lifelong.

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I don't stick to any diet I eat what I want and I do drink alcohol cos if I don't they have to increase the warfarin. I'm afraid I'm a great dissappointment to the docs, they always want me to have pains but I don't, there is another artery they said would need doing eventually but it's been 7 yrs now so I don't worry.

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Hazel darlin' - it sounds as if you need a re-bore - shall I book you into your local garage for that and an MOT too???

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if you did I just might pass the MOT but might be a bit past the re-bore though

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but might be a bit past the re-bore though

Absolutely not Hazel darlin' you're still spring chicken!!!!

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got COPD too though and Atrial Fibrillation both cause breathlesness through exertion.

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Me too Hazel darlin' - chronic Asthmatic and also had five pulmonary emboli which have seriously scarred my lungs.