Every year I go away for Christmas and New Year, and this will be the
first one since the operation. Typically holidays involve a change of
everything - different exercise, diet, alcohol.
This year I'm going away with a friend for 4 days Golf, 5 days Skiing, and then meeting up with my Girlfriend in Thailand for 2 weeks.
Off kicked the golf holiday. Playing a round every day, followed by lots of alcohol. I caught a cold on the plane and in order to not ruin the holiday and still be able to play golf I took Beechams All-In-One which is Paracetomol based. I was taking the max dose - 8 tablets per day, 2 every 4 hours or so.
INR climbed daily, despite reducing the dose of warfarin to 5 or even 4, hitting an eventual peak of 3.9. Whether this was the alcohol, or the paracetomol, or other ingredients in Beechams, or both, i'm not sure. Probably all of the above!
I nearly had it under control the whole time, it just slipped away from me a bit, but then was back under control a day later. God knows what would happen without my drastic dose adjustments!
Here are the results and doses:
This year I'm going away with a friend for 4 days Golf, 5 days Skiing, and then meeting up with my Girlfriend in Thailand for 2 weeks.
Off kicked the golf holiday. Playing a round every day, followed by lots of alcohol. I caught a cold on the plane and in order to not ruin the holiday and still be able to play golf I took Beechams All-In-One which is Paracetomol based. I was taking the max dose - 8 tablets per day, 2 every 4 hours or so.
INR climbed daily, despite reducing the dose of warfarin to 5 or even 4, hitting an eventual peak of 3.9. Whether this was the alcohol, or the paracetomol, or other ingredients in Beechams, or both, i'm not sure. Probably all of the above!
I nearly had it under control the whole time, it just slipped away from me a bit, but then was back under control a day later. God knows what would happen without my drastic dose adjustments!
Here are the results and doses:
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