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Routine aspirin 'may cause harm'

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OK, I wonder where this leaves me? When I was diagnosed they thought I'd had a heart attack, but it turned out I hadn't, the virus I had caught that triggered my pancreas to fail also caused some mild inflammation of the heart (myocardopathy) - not a heart attack. Yet I was put on clopidogrel for a year and aspirin 75 mg, which I have taken ever since. Now they are saying that you shouldn't take it if you have never had heart disease or stroke. I know I will have to ask my GP as my circumstances are slightly odd, but wondered if anyone else has been taken off aspirin that they were prescribed purely for their diabetes?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16468337
 
I was taken off it.
When it was prescribed as a preventative medication for all diabetics then I was given it. When I was diagnosed with a gastro problem then I was taken straight off it.
Your case is different Alan and needs a G.P. to sort this one out.
 
To paraphrase Cherrypie:

Epidemiological studies like this deal with populations; GPs are there to help patients decide how to tackle their specific situation.
 
No, it didn't need clarification, but I didn't want to say exactly the same thing twice!
 
Good Lord, there's always something isn't there?! Does your head in really - take one thing to solve a problem and then find out there are new problems. Haven't got any wisdom I'm afraid - disappeared years ago! Suppose I'm different with my need for aspirin but it still does your head in!!
 
Excuse the language but ******** to all these so called experts.
What is brilliant one week is life threatening the next.
Scaremongerers the lot of them.
 
I'll leave the language, Jon, but I really can't agree with your statement that "so called experts" change their minds from brilliant one week to life threatening the next - the BBC article is about a study involving over 100,000 patients, followed for an average of 6 years each.

Plus, it would be far more irresponsible to recommend treatment on the basis of inadequate research. We'd still be blood letting and using leeches for just about everything if medicine hadn't moved over the years.
 
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