Ask the doctor: Can stopping aspirin cause heart problems?
Photo credit: Photos.com | Aspirin helps prevent heart attacks and the most common form of stroke by making platelets in the bloodstream less "sticky."
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Q. I've read that if you take aspirin every day, stopping it temporarily increases your chance of having a heart attack even higher than it would have been if you had never taken aspirin. Is that true? If I need to stop taking aspirin for some reason, is there a safer way to do it than stopping cold turkey?
A. What you are describing is sometimes called the rebound effect or rebound phenomenon....
