I have little doubt that this will be the first of many posts that include alcohol discussion. Before the operation I used to drink a fair amount - perhaps an average week would include a couple of glasses of wine 3 days per week, and a big binge on Friday... and possibly Saturday too.
I've already had up to 1 glass of wine in the evening a couple of times and seen no warfarin affect.
So, i have a wedding and the night after to drink. I ended up drinking the most I had since the operation, somewhat reassured by my ability to self-test and fix the problem myself. However, I don't really know how big the problem will be.
I drank a lot. I felt really quite drunk on the way home. Hard to know how much, over the whole (long) evening, perhaps 4 beers, 5 glasses of wine - something like that.
Turns out that the warfarin climbed from 2.5 back to 3.1 as a result of the nights drinking. A test another day later saw it still at 3.1. So, no real problem here then - i've proved that a night on the lash isn't a big issue.
Here are the test results and doses for the antibiotics and alcohol episode:
I've already had up to 1 glass of wine in the evening a couple of times and seen no warfarin affect.
So, i have a wedding and the night after to drink. I ended up drinking the most I had since the operation, somewhat reassured by my ability to self-test and fix the problem myself. However, I don't really know how big the problem will be.
I drank a lot. I felt really quite drunk on the way home. Hard to know how much, over the whole (long) evening, perhaps 4 beers, 5 glasses of wine - something like that.
Turns out that the warfarin climbed from 2.5 back to 3.1 as a result of the nights drinking. A test another day later saw it still at 3.1. So, no real problem here then - i've proved that a night on the lash isn't a big issue.
Here are the test results and doses for the antibiotics and alcohol episode:
