Is anyone here take aspirin daily as preventive treatment of heart attack? Aspirin is proven to prevent the formation of fat plagues on artery veins.

I've been taking it for several years .

i think "prevent" is too strong of a word.."helpful in preventing" might be better..a baby aspirin a day is about
right..talk to you Dr..they also thin your blood..and could
have other side effects..

I have been for yrs. I had a heart attack last yr and am currently undergoing chemo for lymphoma on the coloin. Even though aspirin can cause internal blleding I'm still on the aspirin on doc orders.

BOB

I take two "baby" aspirin per day, under Dr.'s orders. I had five heart bypasses two years ago and the aspirin is part of a comprehensive post operative strategy. I never had a heart attack and no heart damage. Just some symptoms that I was smart enough to respond to and had what turned out to be very successful surgery. I'm now in the best shape of my life and travel in the wilderness, camping, hiking on a regular basis (lifelong habits)

I have been on 85mg, once per day, for seven years. Dr's orders after a heart attack. Started out on a regular aspirin once per day, but had complications.

I have been on a baby asprin for about a year, under DR's recomendation. I have never had any heart problems or blood problems, but due to my age and activity level He wanted be to take them.

After a 2003 angiogram I was prescribed aspirin and a variety of other meds. I take the aspirin (85mg) dose daily and seem to have no problems. Yesterday I had a colonoscopy (colon cancer runs in my family) and I appear to be the first to not have polyps removed. May be a coincidence, but I understand that aspirin may reduce the chance of colon cancer.

Like any drug, it should be used in accordance with your doctor's advice. It's not a cure-all, but it may be a low cost tool to reduce some of the health risks.

did you get angiogram? or cat scan of the heart to determine if asppirin helped you at all?

Aspirin in low dosages has been proven to help prevent blood clots and thus help prevent heart attacks. The best advice I have read is in this thread, consult you doctor.

I have had many patients tell me that they stopped taking their aspirin (and other meds) because they still had a heart attack... "that stuff doesn't work!"... Of course, the 3 packs of smokes a day, the 20,000 calorie a day diet and the daily TV watching marathons that cause their 3rd and 4th trip to the cath lab.

If you are worried about your heart and health... eat right, exersice and listen to your doc (given you have a good one).

Instead of aspirin I take a 1000 mg fish oil pill every morning. Not only thins the blood, but also has Omega-3 Fatty Acids that my brain & heart must have.

I'm 40 now & as I approach 50 I'll probably bump this up to two pills a day.

I take one aspirin a day, full strength ones too. And I also take aspirin for those little aches and pains. Been doing it for years, along with my BP meds (old age you know). I have always been a fast clotter, and the aspirin doesn't seem to have affected that one bit. I tried fish oil pills, but when I got sweaty (I was still working for a living then) I started to smell like a fish market, and no one would have coffee with me anymore, so I stopped them. Tried garlic pills, same thing...

I use 85 mg. "enteric" coated. This kind is easier on the stomach. By the way, aspirin and alcohol together are especially hard on the stomach.

I use the Kirkland generic. Guess I have a cast iron stomach or something, I take 800mg motrin without a problem too.

No problem with the aspirin-alcohol mix, I have put myself on the wagon while in Washington, booze costs too much up here for my pocketbook...