[TheForge] warning <rant> warfarin a.k.a rat poison ( was Re: Auto darkening helmet )

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

if someone is on anticoagulation medication and does not have a good
understanding of what they are taking they should just stop taken the
medication and let nature take its course. let natural selection take
place.

if the anticoagulation monitoring group is not instructing the patients
they are monitoring about the medications they are taking, they are
incompetent.

i have been on rat poisin for the past 4 years because of the
head-on-collision. i would love to get off the rat poison but it would
be suicide. so i live with it. the foods that can interact with
antigoagulatant medication is long. basically, anything with vitamin k
in it is to be closely watched and adjusted for.

this is why pt/inr self-testing is not used as often as it could be in
the usa. patients are just plain too stupid to give a damn about their
own health.

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 williamsiron at comcast.net wrote:

> 
>
> Mike, 
> 
> I was on Coumadin for a time. I'm now on the generic drug, warfarin
> (yes, it's rat poison!) The techs at the Coumadin clinic who check
> my blood clotting rate are used to talking with folk who are in the
> 75 to 85 year range. The tech's know that you would not understand
> the nuances of blood thinner vs clotting rate factor. So they don't
> bother. Although, it comes as a shock when I ask questions about
> clotting rate. 
>
>
>
> Mark Williams 
>
> Snow Hill, Maryland 
>


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