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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 (made less acidic). There's a scene in 'The Gilded Age' where a pharmacist? visits a pharmacist (Scott pharmacy - the man visited is the father of a main character)...

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 everyone else on warfarin who he does any procedures on bridge - he knows that I won't and respects this. I'm able to bring my INR back a few days after a...

Doctors don't always (often?) know a hell of a lot about this stuff - unless they have knowledge of other patients' experiences or read something in a journal about the subject and retained it. I'm not saying that they're a bad source of advice. And I'm certainly not saying to trust the Internet...

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. I told them that I had run through 6 strips last week and asked how they handle orders for strips. I was told that I was allowed six (or was it four?) tests a...

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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 plain old aspirin. FWIW - I had a rheumatologist who told me that Ketoprofen does less damage to the platelets than the other NSAIDs. It's expensive stuff...

'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 know HOW MANY were in the subject pool. If there were 200 patients in the research pool, living 1 year wouldn't mean much. If there were 50 in the pool, a 4 year...

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 strips - 2014 attached. There were 24 strips in the box. I was hoping that the box also had the code chip. It didn't. THIS would have let me test 10 year 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 told me that they'll accept them up until they were 4 months beyond their expiration date.

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 used to seal up the wound. I started taking my warfarin that day, and a few days later, my INR was back in range. The thing healed completely - I checked it...

Years ago, when I was taking Lanoxin (digoxin), I occasionally experienced a weird phenomenon - it wasn't double vision, but bright lights seemed to have ANOTHER directly below them. This was apparently a documented side effect from the drug.

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 with time. And if there IS a concern with its effectiveness, we can verify its potency by taking it and testing -- a few days after taking it, we should have...

If we have an apocalypse, anticoagulation may not be your first worry. 'Natural' anticoagulants aren't predictable in their effects. Unless we're talking about red clover (which warfarin was originally made from), you won't be able to use these for anticoagulation with any degree of...

Actually, I don't have grandchildren or dogs, but I WILL have a toilet once the remediation of my house from a flood in JULY is completed. As I've already noted - I have a supply of strips that I will use to supplement their supply. I won't really have to worry about asking them for strips...

Timmay - I test once a week - unless my INR for some reason gets near to, or below, 2.0. I'll adjust my dosage - probably by .5 or 1 mg - then test a few days later. Most of the time I rarely make dosing changes, and when I do, they're small. If I start a new medication, and I wonder if it has...

I have a supply of strips and, if I go with them, I WILL supplement - and probably do this on my own meter. I was called today - they apparently bill $95 a month for use of the meter and four strips - nothing out of pocket for me, but about $1000 a year for Medicare and my insurance. (Of...

The big problem may be discomfort wearing your seatbelt. Your sternum isn't fully healed. I can't even think of what I would do if I was shortly post-op. On another matter: Tribes As Pellicle pointed out, tribal has a meaning that was completely missed when a reference was made to Native...

I can't and won't tell you what to do. I was born with a bicuspid aortic valve. It was diagnosed when I was 23, and I was told that 'in 20 years or so' I would need to have it replaced (mechanicals were new at the time). I lived with that hanging over my head until I was almost 41. I had a good...

A few weeks ago, not sure that I'll be able to get strips before I ran out of my few remaining strips, I did something I really didn't want to do -- asked my cardiologist to write a prescription for a testing service. I didn't (and still don't) like that these clinics charge Medicare or...