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My neighbor took a daily baby aspirin and finally got tired of it and quit (much to his wife’s chagrin since it was her doing). He had a stroke 2 or 3 days late
by leetrout 7y ago
My neighbor took a daily baby aspirin and finally got tired of it and quit (much to his wife’s chagrin since it was her doing). He had a stroke 2 or 3 days later.
The doctors say the aspirin was helping keep things at bay but I wondered if it was more like his body adjusted for the thinner blood.
- bitexploder 7y agoYeah. You can’t just quit doing something like that without risk. I think suddenly thickening your blood is a risk factor for stroke. But maybe some plaque or something finally detached, no one can say for sure.
- pmiller2 7y agoThat raises a question: how do you safely stop a daily low dose aspirin regimen? Are we talking about cutting tiny pills in half, then quarters, etc. over a period of a month?
- mark-r 7y agoIn my case it was easy: spend a month in the hospital. This was after a roller skating accident that gave me a huge brain hemorrhage. The hospital doctors went over all my prescriptions and changed nearly everything.
- bd 7y agoWhen taking baby Aspirin and having anticipated bleeding (e.g. planned surgery or dental work), hematologist's advice was to start preparing about two weeks in advance: take pill every other day for about a week, then stop for another week. This paper tells The American College of Chest Physicians' recommendation is stopping 7-10 days in advance, in the clinical study they measured 96 hours (4 days) for "normalizetion of platelet reactivity": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008770/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008770/ But please speak with your own doctor(s), your medical situation may differ.