Due to some administrative screw-ups, i went for the first 2 weeks without anyone on my case. Eventually the hospital caught up with me and issued me a warrant to go to their blood testing department!
During these 2 weeks I was managing my own dose. Due to massive changes in my metabolism, energy levels, exercise, and drugs - the INR was going all over the place, and went up to 3.4 for a couple of days. Not critical, but too high nonetheless. I was of course finding my feet with drug adjustments and working out how quickly they take affect.
By the end of the 2 weeks, it was not a bad result, only out of range for 2 days, and that was only 3.4 - never low. I have already learned one teaching to be false - they said that it takes 7 days for a dose change to take affect.... and this is clearly not the case, its reacting much faster than that - some possible reaction the immediate next day, and some definite reaction the day after that. I now understand that most literature talks about 3 days, but I was told seven!
Here are the results and doses for the period:
During these 2 weeks I was managing my own dose. Due to massive changes in my metabolism, energy levels, exercise, and drugs - the INR was going all over the place, and went up to 3.4 for a couple of days. Not critical, but too high nonetheless. I was of course finding my feet with drug adjustments and working out how quickly they take affect.
By the end of the 2 weeks, it was not a bad result, only out of range for 2 days, and that was only 3.4 - never low. I have already learned one teaching to be false - they said that it takes 7 days for a dose change to take affect.... and this is clearly not the case, its reacting much faster than that - some possible reaction the immediate next day, and some definite reaction the day after that. I now understand that most literature talks about 3 days, but I was told seven!
Here are the results and doses for the period:
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