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Alternatively, you could purchase a Coag-Sense as Protime did. I purchased one with a prescription after reading Protime's experiences. My internist had originally balked wanting me to purchase one through the insurance plan. However, when I told him about the financing shenanigans going on he...

For me, diet has been a "reproducibly significant issue". However, I eat approximately 300 mg of greens per day. This is because Spinach has 306 mg of K1 in two ounces and is easier to get then most greens when traveling. This keeps my average level of K1 very constant even if I unknowingly eat...

Tom, My doctor prescribed finasteride also. My wife read the package insert when I got home. It said that 3% of the patients got fatal prostate cancer after taking it. That is 97% that do not. You might want to read your package insert and see if it says the same thing. For the time being, I...

Maineiacs, Do you eat organic food? Maine is a more rural area and agricultural, dairy and meat products are more likely to be grass fed. Grass fed products are naturally high in vitamin K2 and A which naturally keep calcium from accumulating in the wrong areas of the body. According to "Vitamin...

There are two books that are relevant - "Vitamin K2 And The Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life Kindle Edition" see Amazon at...

Sheenas7, Thank you. Happily, my CoagSense was not affected. I normally check my CoagSense against my health plan lab every two to three months. So far, they have correlated well. However, my strips have come from only two batches and the Lab has not changed machines or Thromboplastin. Walk in...

My previous endocrinologist was a research doctor. He called the New England Journal of Medicine the most dangerous publication in the United States. This was because of it's high reputation. It's articles will make the front pages of newspapers across the US and the evening news. Unfortunately...

I agree with most of your summary points except one: Less time spent testing (5.3 minutes per test compared with 158 minutes) We spend less time testing but it is more like 30 to 45 minutes. My wife helps me clean up the table, scrub it down with soap and water, scrub our hands and use a...

Unfortunately, large quantities of Ketchup have large quantities of sugar. I am allowed one or two slices of real tomatoes with my hamburgers at a maximum. Otherwise, my blood sugars spike. Be grateful you have only your INR to worry about. I was able to avoid diabetes by severely limiting my...

Dick, I do the same as you. However, since I also have a carb/blood sugar problem, I have to micro-manage what I eat and I eat the "same" amount of K1 (300 ug) every day. Like yours, my INR also periodically jumps around for no apparent reason. I was warned by a Coumadin Clinic doctor that this...

If I recall correctly, there was an alert put out on Jantoven by the Australian government. They had found that Jantoven was much more potent then Coumadin. They did not find variations in the potency by strength of pill. The solution was to have very close monitoring for the first several weeks...

I purchased the CoagSense II meter from Willburn Medical 1 (877) 945-2876 or 1 (336) 996-6820. I emailed a scan of the prescription to them. They said that their contract with Roche does not allow them to sell that meter. Their deal with CoagSense apparently requires a prescription. They have...

MdaPA You mentioned "compared to the lab (Quest)" Quest is a big enough organization that it may have more then one machine in more then one location and they may use more then one reagent on their different machines. Roche did a study where they demonstrated that different laboratory INR...

Protime, The Lot # for the test strips I used to pair my data with the Health Plan Lab was 200061. They were barcoded 50130371. Walk in His Peace, Scribe With a Stylus

If you read my two posts on the first page of this sequence, I have been using the Coag-Sense since approximately Sept of last year. Three years ago, I decided on a meter based on my reactions to what Pellicle and Protime had posted. My health plan finally signed a contract to provide a meter...

The question is why would you wish to do this unless you know of an explicit reason why lower cholesterol is good for you. Reading the statin studies in detail, one finds out that while death from heart attacks goes down, total deaths do not. In other words, reducing ones choleterol increases...

pellicle In my 7 data pair sample, after I corrected with the regression analysis the values were within 0.2 for one value and within 0.1 for the other 6. (range of INRs being 2.0 to 3.2 for Blood Draw lab values and 2.4 to 3.7 for the Coag-Sense Meter values) Similarly, after correcting the...

Protime, I only have seven data pairs to date. I have not been able to collect any new data pairs since I last wrote to you. I am still under orders from my internist NOT to go to the Health Plan Lab for a new blood draw until well after the epidemic is over. At one point I had Pulmonary...