In the run-up to the surgery I have read everything I can about Warfarin on the internet, and have started thinking about how I will deal with it.
I'm not the sort of person to just sit back and trust health professionals. I always back up what they say with my own research and I'm not afraid to ask questions and challenge what i'm told. The older I get, the more I notice inconsistencies, and the more I feel I need to watch my own back.
One other factor of relevance is that I travel quite a lot. I'm impatient, hate hospitals, hate waiting around, and don't want to feel like a patient, I just want to get on with my life.
In summary, it's clear that I need to be independent, and need to control my own drug. This means I need to own my own self testing machine.
The antiquated law in the UK is that I am allowed to test my own blood, but I'm not allowed to adjust my own dose. In addition, there's nobody I can phone for advice, and nobody I could give my results to in order that they adjust my dose. Even if I could, they wouldn't be allowed to take my result as meaning anything unless they did it themselves. Pretty useless then!
Even before being on the drug I've already made the decision that I will take all of this with a pinch of salt, and just manage my own dosing. This will obviously require lying to the faces of professionals, which is uncomfortable, but necessary.
I'm not the sort of person to just sit back and trust health professionals. I always back up what they say with my own research and I'm not afraid to ask questions and challenge what i'm told. The older I get, the more I notice inconsistencies, and the more I feel I need to watch my own back.
One other factor of relevance is that I travel quite a lot. I'm impatient, hate hospitals, hate waiting around, and don't want to feel like a patient, I just want to get on with my life.
In summary, it's clear that I need to be independent, and need to control my own drug. This means I need to own my own self testing machine.
The antiquated law in the UK is that I am allowed to test my own blood, but I'm not allowed to adjust my own dose. In addition, there's nobody I can phone for advice, and nobody I could give my results to in order that they adjust my dose. Even if I could, they wouldn't be allowed to take my result as meaning anything unless they did it themselves. Pretty useless then!
Even before being on the drug I've already made the decision that I will take all of this with a pinch of salt, and just manage my own dosing. This will obviously require lying to the faces of professionals, which is uncomfortable, but necessary.
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