This blog charts my experience on anticogulants, as a 32 year old in the UK, after having heart surgery to replace a faulty Aortic Valve.
I will attempt to share my knowledge in the hope that it will help other patients, something I could have found very useful.
This exposes the mess that our healthcare system has got itself into in the UK and shows some of the misinformation spread by health professionals about the drug.
Monday, 9 July 2012
March 23rd 2012. Why low?
This kind of thing still randomly happens sometimes:
And I still have no idea why! Literally nothing noticable changed in this case. In my mind, this is just something that proves to me that Warfarin is not a stable drug. Not with me, anyway!
I'm 20 years old and have been on Warfarin for the past 5 months, was only supposed to be 3 months but my doctors were rubbish at managing my dosage and for 4 months my INR was never in the theraputic range of 2-3. I got down to 1.3 and my mum had to fight the doctors to let me have the fragmin injections. I think you're very lucky to feel that 1.7 is low. Do you have your own INR tester?!
I'm 20 years old and have been on Warfarin for the past 5 months, was only supposed to be 3 months but my doctors were rubbish at managing my dosage and for 4 months my INR was never in the theraputic range of 2-3. I got down to 1.3 and my mum had to fight the doctors to let me have the fragmin injections.
ReplyDeleteI think you're very lucky to feel that 1.7 is low.
Do you have your own INR tester?!