Dr. Mark Help

[socalmx716]

Dr. Mark posts on here right?

Anyway, I had my ablation surgery about 3 weeks ago and so far things are pretty good, I had 1 or 2 bad days where I went back into the arythmia but other than that I'm good.

Problem is that I'm on Coumadin or Warfarin, my question to you is how dangerous is it to ride while taking this?

[Shoei_391]

Did the doc clear you to ride?

[socalmx716]

Well I'm fine to ride except I'm on coumadin. He didn't say not to but I didn't ask because I knew what his answer would be

[Shoei_391]

Hahaha. What are you talking about though? You have to ride on what? Is it a drug or something? I would take it easy while riding at 1st

[char393]

dkb1337, Coumadin is a blood thinner.

If Dr Mark doesn't get back to you here, you could try and post either at RiderDown.org or Houstonmotocross.com

[socalmx716]

He got back to me on thumpertalk, he said riding on Coumadin is crazy.

[char393]

What'd they say...3 months on the Coumadin? Good thing you're in Cali...year round riding.

[socalmx716]

Yup, 3 months. About 9 weeks to go

[DRGSin393]

Imagine bleeding to death internally because of a simple lay down and handlebar to the chest...what, r ya nutz?? Also, remember that the meds are still in your system after you stop taking them. We usually take patients off of them for 3-7 days prior to any surgery, but Id wait longer than that to ride if I were you.

[drmark]

I am assuming that you won't be on coumadin forever, right?
Four days after you stop it, you can ride, but your reflexes have deteriorated, so start slow, don't go balls to the wall from the beginning.

[Shoei_391]

Oh shoot...blood thinner...a fall would mess you up bad...but hey at least your in cali!