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That 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 per
by pmiller2 7y ago
That 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.