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

[peter fels]

Oh Terry:
As you know, when one's body is traumatized, so are one's brains.
One's ability to reason, ones emotive state , and the way one perceives the world,
all can get slapped silly.
Sometimes those effects endure for years .
It's common for a patient to simply surrender to fate, for a while, i did.
It ain't always stupidity.


On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:46 PM, terry l. ridder wrote:

> 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 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
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