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A couple years ago, I went to the Urgent Care clinic of my health plan with two large hematomas. They checked my INR because of the Hematomas since they knew I was on Warfarin. I got a call from the health plan's anticoagulation clinic with an urgent message that I should stop taking the...

This is what I did several years ago. I built up my k1 and K2 (K4 version) slowly to 30 mcg each. my warfarin dosage slowly increased from about 4 to 13.75. I kept track of the relationship between my meter (CoagSense) and my health plans lab test measurements and they stayed about the same. The...

LondonAndy Said - I'm not sure what it is like in the US, but here in the UK the two methods are not mutually exclusive. I self-manage normally, but if the situation gets complicated for whatever reason I have the backup of a hospital anticoagulation clinic. In the US, it varies by...

Based on your advice from several years ago, I purchased a Coag-Sense and ran a series of tests to cross check it with my Health_Plans laboratory test equipment. I finally got them to verify that they had not changed the equipment or test chemicals. the relationship between 2 and 4 was about Lab...

I got a CoagSense just before the Covid. The correlation between the CoagSense and the Health Insurance Blood Laboratory machine was at the 97% level by the time of the arrival of Covid. I use a ThermoPhore to warm up my hands prior to poking myself. Since I am married, My wife draws the blood...

******************************** OOPS, I swapped the terms CougSense and CoagUCheck in my memory. I own a CoagSense not a CoagUChek XS. You would have to have a doctor relative to buy the CoagUChek XS and then give it to you. My purchase was from Wilburn and when I bought it, they told me the...

In the USA, I live in, my doctors do not really like self monitoring. However, Medicare covers it. My health care plan prefers that you use their monitor that Medicare pays for the RENTAL of. When I showed my doctor how the fees worked, he wrote me a prescription to allow me to BUY my own...

Ditto for me. The 1 mg, 3 mg, 5 mg works well for me. If you have to, you can even split the 1 mg into halves and quarters. For two weeks, I was taking 15.75 mg per day to fine tune my INR in response to changes in my melatonin and Vitamin K2. Now I am taking 15.0. Switching dosages was easy...

Pellicle, You said " science tries not to be subjective." and "... if you doubt the existence of atoms then you should prove it." Unfortunately, government high level executives love saying that they "represent" science and that anyone who disagrees with them is anti-science. I worked in...

My cardiac surgeon was mad as hell at my health plan for following "official" medical science as represented by the CDC/NIH/FDA guidelines here in the USA instead of past medical experience of the cardiac surgeons at his hospital. The question is what is pushback against medical science. It has...

Protimenow, Actually, this part of the thread should be moved to the vaccine thread. I apologize to you for the length and getting carried away with the info, However, I was annoyed by the reference to Dr. Paul Marik as "ostensibly in the trenches". I have been reading up on this topic since Jan...

Chuck, The death rate in the Norfolk Hampton Roads area was about 10% lower then the rest of the state. While not huge, it was significantly lower. Dr. Paul Marik, the Intensive Care Doctor, who also has a degree in Pharmacy, is a professor of intensive care at Eastern Virginia Medical School...

My Coag-Sense meter correlates perfectly with my Health Plan's lab machine. However, the Health Plan has never changed either their machine nor their reagent. Thus, the perfect correlation has never changed. With Covid, my overall diet has been unchanged for two years and so it is unlikely that...

Pellicle, Thank you for the LibreOffice Tip on how to count the out of range draws. I will have to add that to my spreadsheet just for the fun of knowing how often I am out of range in a year. Since my range is 2.5 to 3.5, I may count both those over 3.5 and those over 4.0 and those under 2.5...