Karlynn:
I bit my tongue and sat on my hands the last time that you posted that your cardiologist says your therapeutic dose of Coumadin is too high and that you must test twice a week. I was hoping that someone with more authority than yours truly would chime in. Your cardiologist does not know her asterisk from a hole in the ground. Let me clean that up to say, your cardiologist is severely misguided and ill informed when it comes to anticoagulation management. When she says your dose is too high, SHE IS WRONG. No if, ands, or butts! She is also wrong when she attributes the rise and fall of your INR to what you put in your mouth. Ask her if she knows that there are three types of Vitamin K. K-1 is found in food, especially green food. K-3 is synthetic K, often given when someone needs to lower the INR swiftly, as in the case of impending surgery. And then, there is K-2, which is manufactured right in our own bodies. In other words, we make our own Vitamin K. There are so many factors that contribute to an INR other than food, such as: changes in routine, exercise, the weather, sleep, tension, stress, other medical conditions, and Rain's dog. The cardiologist is BLAMING you and that is criminal!
Also, testing twice a week is not effective. You'll wind up with an INR jumping up and down....not to mention the additional stress and worry one feels when their INR is out of range. Maybe you could get a second opinion from another cardiologist?
Kind regards,
Blanche
I bit my tongue and sat on my hands the last time that you posted that your cardiologist says your therapeutic dose of Coumadin is too high and that you must test twice a week. I was hoping that someone with more authority than yours truly would chime in. Your cardiologist does not know her asterisk from a hole in the ground. Let me clean that up to say, your cardiologist is severely misguided and ill informed when it comes to anticoagulation management. When she says your dose is too high, SHE IS WRONG. No if, ands, or butts! She is also wrong when she attributes the rise and fall of your INR to what you put in your mouth. Ask her if she knows that there are three types of Vitamin K. K-1 is found in food, especially green food. K-3 is synthetic K, often given when someone needs to lower the INR swiftly, as in the case of impending surgery. And then, there is K-2, which is manufactured right in our own bodies. In other words, we make our own Vitamin K. There are so many factors that contribute to an INR other than food, such as: changes in routine, exercise, the weather, sleep, tension, stress, other medical conditions, and Rain's dog. The cardiologist is BLAMING you and that is criminal!
Also, testing twice a week is not effective. You'll wind up with an INR jumping up and down....not to mention the additional stress and worry one feels when their INR is out of range. Maybe you could get a second opinion from another cardiologist?
Kind regards,
Blanche
I'm a music director for a church and part of my job involves playing piano. The lancets that QAS sends with my cuvettes seem to hurt more than the ones they use at the lab.