Not sure what I might do once I run out of warfarin, but I would have to try something. Maybe I should start a stockpile of booze as well. If I can't medicate I can just drink every day in hopes of thinning my blood.
A couple weeks ago I was really really tired b4 going into work and forgot to take my pills (warfarin and some others). I used to take it the warfarin in the evening when I got home around 8PM but that got turned onto its head when I got forced into a 12 hour nightshift this year. So instead I decided to take the pills when I got up, b4 going into work, about 5:30-6PM.
But since I 4got that meant if I waited until I got home would mean holding out until 15 HOURS later. However "luckily" I keep extra pills in my work "lunchbox" which dates back to even when I was on dayshift, since there were times that I got stuck late a couple hours.
So I checked my lunchbox emergency pill stash - it was several years old - the pills crumbled to dust in my hands. Didn't seem like that would have a good thing to try taking. Instead I bit the bullet and told work I needed to go home & take my pills, then come right back - however the slaveshop I work in we are not permitted to be late, we are not permitted to be "sick" and not able to come in, nor are we permitted to leave after our shift starts for any reason. We get penalty points for that stuff (then get fired when we reach a certain #). Since my INR had tested on the low side of spec 3 weeks in a row I was not comfortable with risking being late 15 hours on my pills. I informed a Supervisor what was going on and went home for the pills.
Later when discussing the situation with a coworker who also has a mechanical aortic valve he told me - and I am totally serious he actually said this - that I didn't need the warfarin, I could have just stopped at the nearby bar around the corner and had a couple shots since that "thins your blood"!!! He actually does that rather than take warfarin sometimes. Wow...