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Standardvelocity -- what you wrote about is what led researchers to find and isolate warfarin. When farmers were castrating goats...

Aspirin is pretty easy. It's acetylated salicylic acid - I'm pretty sure that salicylic acid is not hard to get. It's just buffered...

That's why I said 'often.' It precludes the word 'never.' My electrocardiologist at least trusts me to know what I'm doing. He makes...

Doctors don't always (often?) know a hell of a lot about this stuff - unless they have knowledge of other patients' experiences or read...

This is the final message from me on this matter - I think. The company called me again a day or so ago. They were ready to sign me up...

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Naproxen and ibuprofen are ALSO NSAIDs and also have an effect on platelets. I don't know if they affect platelets more or less than...

'200 patient life years' is a fairly meaningless number unless (and I didn't listen to the audio, so I may have missed this step) you...

That's how I've done it. The meter that I got from my doctor - one that the user thought was 'too inaccurate' had a box of REALLY OLD...

If you do, you can try the experiment - you may need a few tins. FWIW - I used to donate my 'expired' cans to a local food bank. They...

FWIW - I had an ablation on 4/2. They went through the femoral artery. I lowered my INR to 1.5 for the procedure. A collagen plug was...

Years ago, when I was taking Lanoxin (digoxin), I occasionally experienced a weird phenomenon - it wasn't double vision, but bright...

I don't think I have access to 60 year old sardines, so I can't test this.

Personally, for something like warfarin, I'm not all that sure that expiration dates mean much. It's not an antibiotic that may degrade...

If we have an apocalypse, anticoagulation may not be your first worry. 'Natural' anticoagulants aren't predictable in their effects...