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I started taking Envive every other day about 4 weeks ago. My INR went from 3.0 a month ago to 1.8 today. Nothing else in my diet has changed. I have read that the probiotics can produce Vitamin K. Anyone else have similar problems after using probiotics? Sharon Feldman St Judes AVR April 1997

Got my aortic St. Judes valve in April of 1997. My coumadin levels have been pretty good all these years, just some minor glitches. I recently fell (the cat got under my feet), and needed surgery to put some pins into my fractured hip. I have needed a bit of help for the hip pain, and have...

My husband and I are moving to Richmond, VA in a couple of weeks, and I was wondering if anyone on this site lives there, and know if there is an anti-coagulation clinic there? Someone told me they thought there might be one. My Rochester, NY cardiology office started to do INR testing a few...

Hi Everyone, I have a ProTime 3 home tester that I bought in 2002. It seems to be working fine. I don't need it anymore because my cardiologist does it for us in his office for free (I paid for the machine and all of my tests out of pocket as my health insurance co. wouldn't pay for any of...

Hi Everyone, I've been using my Protime - the 3 channel kind - for many years. I can't tell you how many times I've had to redo tests. I would estimate that I've screwed up at least 1/3 of my tests over the years. I've never found it easy to use for some reason, but when I do it right, it's...

Just wanted to know the life expectancy of my PT3 model. I took my INR about 10 minutes after the lab draw yesterday. I got 1.9 and I found out this morning that the lab got 2.6. I had gotten a 1.9 a few weeks ago and thought that it was either because I started taking ester Vit C -500 mg...

I've had my Protime 3 for many years. The other day I took my inr and just as it was warming up the tenderlett it ran out of "juice", so I took the tenderlett out and plugged the charger into the machine and then restarted it and again put the tenderlett in. It went through the usual things...

I was just at the Mended Hearts national conference this week and one of our speakers was a man from GlaxoSmithKline who said that they are now doing trials for a coumadin replacement drug. I went on their website but am not too computer savvy and so couldn't find anything on it. It is...

I am going to California for a few weeks and think I would like to take my protime along. I have a cold pack for the strips. I wanted to know how to wrap the machine and does turbulance disturb the innner workings of the machine as much as it disturbs me? Also, if the strips have a date of...

Has anyone been diagnosed with super ventricular tachycardia? Mine started a few weeks after my avr surgery which was in 4/97. The emts that came to take me to the hospital recorded 180 beats per minute and I had just been sitting in my den. I was given a drug to stop the heart for a few...

Does anyone know anything about whey protein shakes? I was reading the label and it's got all sorts of amino acids. Can that be a problem? I want to start the fat flush diet and it uses the whey shakes to add protein to the diet. I don't eat meat so I thought this might be a good idea and...

Just wanted to let you all know about a great list of the Vit K content of foods. It's 21 pages long and put out by the USDA. It is the most complete list and I think the most recent list too. Don't know if this was ever posted on this site - but Hank if you go to the site I think you'll...

Well, I gave the policosinal 2 months and it just brought my LDL cholesterol down 10 pts and upped my HDL 2pts. My ND said to not bother taking it anymore. So I am on to the next thing. ProFibe is a fruit pectin (no grapefruit pectin because of interaction of grapefruit with lots of meds)...

I need help using my protime. It is so frustrating that I?m ready to sell the damn thing. I?ve had it for at least 2 yrs (probably longer) and half the time I get an air bubble message. I?ve called QAS and they?ve tried to be helpful but it?s not working for me. I can?t seem to do the test...

So has anyone used or know anything about policosinal (I think that's the spelling)? I went to a Naturopathic doctor who has advised me to try it for my high cholesterol. It's made out of sugar and I have read about it but don't know of anyone who has used it. I've already tried diet, niacin...

I may have to start on some statins to lower my cholesterol. I've tried lipitor and had to go off of it because of leg cramps so the dr is going to try some other statin. I've heard that this depletes the heart of CoQ10 which is very important to the heart's functioning properly. I've also...

Hi Everyone, Well, after years of trying to get my cholesterol levels down from the 270's with a nutritional and natural approach, I've finally had to bite the bullet and start on lipitor. According to pharmacy and coumadin info there should be no interaction - Guess what, when I checked my inr...

A new green tea is being test marketed here in Rochester, Buffalo and a few other cities around the country. It is called Brassica. The tea contains "sgs" which is short for sulforaphane glucosinolate the same phytochemicals found in broccoli and broccoli sprouts. It was researched by...

Hi everyone, I'm really not new to the group. For some reason I wasn't able to log on for a long time and recently got reactivated by way of Hank. Well, just got back from my dr and she wants me to go for a colonoscopy - what a pain in the you know where. Now from what I understand I may have...