You may be old if......
That lose dose aspirin is no longer recommended.
jerryc41 wrote:
That lose dose aspirin is no longer recommended.
But I still like the taste!
My doctor has not taken it off my meds schedule. My are you saying ‘not recommended.’
jerryc41 wrote:
That lose dose aspirin is no longer recommended.
I refused. I’m highly allergic to aspirin. It now causes me severe gastric distress. I took it too often in my youth.
It is a formula of risk vs benifit and depends on what patient population you are in (age, comorbidities, family Hx). The risk include GI bleed, risk of hemorrhagic stroke, kidney damage, possible vision damage, etc. However if you have cardiovascular disease or a high risk stratification for CVD or colorectal cancers, etc then the benefits of low dose daily aspirin (i.e. prevention or slowing of progression) appear to out weigh the risks of daily aspirin.
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
You may be old if......
Overall, best to just not take all these meds anyway.
Look at the side effects, those are worse than what the medicine is supposed to cure.
That is why you use use a risk stratification. For many people the risk does not out weigh the benefit but if you fall in the high risk group for certain cancers or heart disease, etc. then the benefit out weighs the risk.
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
I had a NASTY reaction to aspirin. Interesting beginning, I started having ASTHMA when I was 42, several trips to ER. At 55, I had facial swelling and hives, after taking some low dose aspirin. When the nurse told me at the ER " they treat it the same as a heart attack", it got my undivided attention. This was at the third visit to the ER (3 days in a row). I now do not even want to touch the aspirin bottle, or any NSAID, period, ever!
A few years later, after having a surgery, during the middle of the night, a nurse came in, bringing a pain pill. I woke up, asked what it was, Yep!, aspirin... I refused!
47greyfox
Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range
jerryc41 wrote:
That lose dose aspirin is no longer recommended.
Not for everyone, Jerry. Depends on personal history.
Not going to live forever.
Funny my cardiologist said to stay on the low dose when I asked him about it. Also funny that I am the oldest living member in my family now. I guess its one of those ---If its working don't change it---
From
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/a-major-change-for-daily-aspirin-therapy"In March, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recommended against the routine use of low-dose (81-mg) aspirin in people older than 70 who do not have existing heart disease and haven't had a stroke, or in people of any age who have an increased risk for bleeding (from a peptic ulcer, for example, with sores on the stomach lining that can bleed)."
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