I've been concerned about the dust here, too.
Let me thow in some new stuff:
I've been testingonce a week - because I have enough strips to do so weekly.
A week and a half ago, my INR dropped to 1.6 - the lowest I've seen it in a long time. I increased my dosage, tested after four days, and was back in range. Instead of 7 mg every night, I upped a one day dose to 10, and am now doing 8 mg on Thursday and Sunday and 7 on the other days.
I realized that, with this new dosing schedule, it may not make a lot of sense to test weekly -- because the changes from a WEEK earlier wouldn't show up in my INR. I'm thinking that perhaps I should test on Sunday and Wednesday (so I can see the effect of my 8 mg dose). However, it seems as if my INR is probably consistently in range with the current schedule, so perhaps I should test ONCE on Sunday and Wednesday and, if I'm within range, not bother with testing more often than every two weeks or so. (I'm using an InRatio meter and even if the strips expire, they'll still work and the quality controls will let me know if I have a bad strip).
In order to keep this, and other threads running -- what do YOU think?
(Yeah, I know I should have put this in another thread, but this one looks like the one I need to keep this forum alive).
