So Many Pills To Take Add On Part Two

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By Stanman63

I went to a radiologist yesterday about my heart and the doctor increased the dosage of lysinopril a bit, but now my home doctor wants to increase wayfarin as well. LOL


Stanman
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Wayfarin?

...you mean the doc wants to give you a medicine which makes you roam the countryside? ;)

Keep well, Stan. Heart problems often sound worse than what they are. I think a lot of the fuss is to keep the doctors in jobs.

Penny

Wayfarin?

The doctor wants me to report back a week after I gt the new meds

    Stanman
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    Stanman
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Well, the Waran is a tricky beast

...it's a competitive antagonist, a permanent disabler for the enzymes involved in the Vitamin K cycle, who are vital for the coagulation system. There's a rather narrow therapeutic dosage frame which depends on your body size and composition a lot, below which you get no noticeable effect at all, above which you bleed to death (antidote is vit. K). It's common to need to adjust it's dosage based on how effective you see it being in a person.

Yes Stan,

ALISON

'I know warfarin well after having a pulmonary embolism in May.Warfarin is actually a rat poison
but is used on humans to reduce the risk of clotting and the resulting DVT or Embolism.You get a
diet that even a rat would not like as the Vitamin K,as our friend pointed out,negates the effect
and occurs in all broadleaf vegetables.Enjoy!

ALISON