An Aspirin A Day? -----> NOT!

I just saw on Good Morning America the Weekend Edition, that a young woman in her early 40's had a massive heart attack with absolutely no symptoms or warning signs, other than a sudden pressure in her throat. Luckily she survived! She is a woman who has always watched what she ate and exercises regularly with no family history of heart disease. She was rushed into surgery for a cardiac bypass. Dr. Tim Johnson said that all women in their 40s, 50s, 60s should get preventative checkups and blood tests and probobly even begin a program of taking one baby aspirin a day under Dr.'s orders of course. Now, for my question! Since all of us "LOSERS" are not allowed to take aspirin products what other methods are available to us to get the same preventative results? I know everything is OK with my heart especially since I had my pre-op workup done just this past summer, but this is something to wonder about. Anyone have any answers to this question? Marianne

Hey there Marianne, I'm not sure why there sure why there are such differences in what all of our doctors tell us, but mine has me on a asprin a day. I take 1 St. Johns chewable asprin (81 mg) every morning along with my chewable tums and multi-vitamen twice a day. I've been doing great, I had my surgery OCT 31st and just had my 4 month check-up, I was at 331 and now i'm at 245! Not to shabby if I do say so myself. I hope this helps. Steve