# Aspirin a day keeps death away **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 25, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072 "2016-02-25T04:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072/21 "2016-03-15T19:44:50Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > **UNLESS** your doctor has directed you to take both. > > Some folks are at such high risk for thrombotic problems that both ‘blood thinners’ (anticoagulants) and aspirin (an anti-platelet agent) are used together, despite the increased risk of doing so. I was on Plavix and aspirin for a year after my coronary artery stent. I recently stopped the Plavix at the one year anniversary, and it’s nice to be able to get a minor scratch without worrying about bleeding out.😃 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072/22 "2016-03-15T19:50:12Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > Here’s a useful calculator for helping you decide if the reduction in risk of cancer and myocardial infarctions from taking low-dose aspirin is worth the increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding: > > [http://www.benefit-harm-balance.com/](http://www.benefit-harm-balance.com/) Nice link. It’s not often you see ‘utility’ incorporated into such things. (Then again, I can’t imagine that _anyone_ might be genuinely more worried about a big bleed than a stroke) ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072/23 "2016-03-15T21:08:49Z")
My doctor had me on daily aspirin for a decade and I suddenly, very suddenly, got [Cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaneous_small-vessel_vasculitis) . I gather this is quite rare. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072/24 "2016-03-16T01:11:11Z")
Update: Still 2 baby aspirins/day. Still alive. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072/26 "2016-03-16T13:20:21Z")
Ultimately, nothing keeps death away… ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072/27 "2016-03-16T16:49:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Update: Still 2 baby aspirins/day. Still alive. It’d be fun to see you post this again in say ten or twenty years, as a zombie thread. Unless, of course, you are really a zombie then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aspirin-a-day-keeps-death-away/747072.md?page=1)