Hi all,
I am currently in hospital after having a knee replacement. I have two mechanical valves after having open heart surgery in Feb 2021. I take Sinthrome instead of Warfarin, as I was losing my hair, so was switched by my surgeon.
Anyway I am currently recovering from a knee operation. The night after my surgery, a nurse should have been giving me a heparin infusion, I had s plan and this was on it. She came, hooked me up, I sat there and asked her if it was the heparin.
She said no, it was tranexamic acid and it’s used to control the bleeding. I said that I should have been having Heparin and she said that they gave it to all of the patients. I stopped her, I told her that this wasn’t what I expected from my plan so asked to see a doctor.
I googled it after she went of course. It’s has a blood clotting agent in it I think.
Has anyone who has metal valves had experience of this please? Could this have hurt me? Because I have health anxiety, I am super hypersensitive , so understand I can be a pain, but felt so at risk, that I told her I didn’t feel safe in her care. I probably shouldn’t have, but can’t help myself at times.
Could I have others’ views or experiences please?
Thank you x