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I can not explain the history- dont know it. I have found also depends on who you talk to about the why and why nots to take low aspirin..
 
Just in case it's relevant to anyone -- you shouldn't combine omeprazole with clopidogrel (I pointed this out to a certain rather famous hospital who put me on both and they said 'oops yes -- right')
 
Sorry about your mom. Not fair! I doubt if preventatives would have helped. You'd think that if you stayed on the pavement all your life you'd never get run over, but alas that's not the case. I have set a course of diet, exercise and minimal medication and if at any time I feel out of sorts I try to do something about it. I also think that if you want to take low-dose aspirin daily and it makes you feel a bit more comfortable, do it. My old GP prescribed it for everything. "Have a bucketful," he used to say, "they're cheap!"
 
letstalk1 said:
I often wonder if she had been on some preventatives if it may of made a difference
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You will never know for sure. When and if someone goes through life without the need to see a doctor regularly, I sometimes wonder if that means they're in perfect health. For example, my brother, now 63, boasts how he never has to see a doctor, but has no idea about his blood pressure and blood glucose, because he feels well. It can change rather rapidly as we get older. I don't think any of us can be 100% sure of what the future holds, we can try and do all the right things and the rest of it is up to . . . . . . . . .
 
Oh dear, all sounds very dire, doesn't it...Almost every pill that we take has these sort of warning on. The majority of people will probably not get any of the above side effects. I have been taking them for near on 13 years and have to say I have no side effects at all. Even my heart pills will give a list of scary side effects. Even my Blood Pressure tabs will give very scary side effect list. They are usually guidelines.
 
desidiabulum said:
Just in case it's relevant to anyone -- you shouldn't combine omeprazole with clopidogrel (I pointed this out to a certain rather famous hospital who put me on both and they said 'oops yes -- right')
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The only reason for that is because Omeprazole will interfere with the workings of Plavix , Omeprazole makes Plavix less effective
 

This is a warning - it is not a guideline. You can see everywhere the same warnings for Omeprazole. You are right, not everyone suffers these side effects, so maybe you are one of the lucky ones.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
This is a warning - it is not a guideline. You can see everywhere the same warnings for Omeprazole. You are right, not everyone suffers these side effects, so maybe you are one of the lucky ones.
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This is it bluetit and there are so many others on this medication that do not suffer any ill effects. I think that we have to be careful at times because none of us would take any advice from our doctors at all. I had a friend who was a nurse who worked on the cardiac ward and she said that lives could have actually been saved if heart patients took their medicine, some people were either not taking their medication at all or not on a regular basis.
 
This has just been posted on another thread.
https://www.gp-update.co.uk/files/docs/GP_Update-Spring_2013_diabetes.pdf

There is a section on Aspirin and diabetes, which says:

Aspirin in diabetes Let’s be clear, in someone who has had stroke or heart attack we would use anti-platelets as SECONDARY PREVENTION (but probably clopidogrel, not aspirin, as discussed in the Cardiovascular chapter). This is true whether or not they had diabetes. In PRIMARY PREVENTION in non-diabetics, there is now a significant body of evidence that using aspirin is not indicated, because the benefits are minute.

We have always assumed that some populations at higher risk of CVD (such as diabetics), may still benefit from aspirin. The latest evidence suggests not! Two high quality trials have now confirmed that aspirin should NOT be used in PRIMARY prevention (POPADAD, BMJ 2008;337:a1840; Japanese RCT , JAMA 2008;300:2134).

A further meta-analysis of primary prevention of CVD in diabetics also concluded that aspirin was either of very low efficacy or not efficacious at all (relative risk 0.9, CI 0.81–1) (BMJ 2009;339:b4531). This meta-analysis included 157 trials (over 10 000 patients), although the authors did point out that many of the trials have been of poor quality. The accompanying editorial rightly points out that the confidence intervals reach 1, suggesting there may be some benefit (BMJ 2009;339:b4596). Indeed, we know from primary prevention trials in non-diabetics that aspirin offers some benefit, but that the benefit is too small to be worth taking a tablet every day for ( NNT 1666/y to prevent 1 CV event).

What does this mean in practice? 1 Aspirin is no longer recommended for PRIMARY prevention of CVD in diabetics.
 
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