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There are two leading causes of plaque in blood vessels. They are glycated HDL/LDL particles and oxidated HDL/LDL particles. Unglycated and unoxidated particles almost never deposit as they are the bodies food transport mechanism and garbage return mechanism. If you read Dr. Atkins and Dr...

Dana, I do the same as the above. My wife buys frozen greens. We look up the K amount for each variety in the US Dept of Agriculture Nutrition Database. For greens, a half cup will usually have between 150 and 250 of K in it depending on the variety of the greens (Spinach, turnip greens, kale...

It never worked for me either (except in huge doses). At least, before last summer. It now seems to work for moderate muscle pain for me. Who knows what was different. It worked so well that I ended up with 3 hematomas last summer. Then again, none of the NSAIDS worked for me either. Who knows...

LondonAndy, I looked at your report and modified it for my self management. I told my clinic that my doctor had forbidden me to come to the lab for the duration of the epidemic and for some time thereafter. I had a condition called pulmonary sarcoidosis that was essentially an immune system...

A quick note on my usage of tylenol. When I take 1 or two 8 hour tylenol, it may boost my INR by about 0.2 to 0.5. However, at one time I had been told that it did not affect my INR. During this time, I had some kidney stone pain that lasted about a week. I was taking 4 to 6 pills a day. After a...

Tom, You said "The blood draw results are the "gold standard" in INR testing; in meter validation the blood draw result is the reference value." Unfortunately, the "gold standard" has mixed results. Roche did a study while validating their meter where they demonstrated that Lab test devices...

Whoops, poor English phrasing. By "lost the transfer tube" I meant lost the use of that particular transfer tube that we partially filled with blood. Once it is partially used, I assume that it is no longer usable and switch to a new one and poke a different finger. We generally have good...

I use the Coag-Sense (2nd generation). There have been a number of times when the poke did not produce an adequate quantity of blood. I lost the transfer tube but did not lose the more expensive test strip. I have my wife use the transfer tube and hand it to me. It is an additional step but...

I forgot to mention - While “The Coumadin Cookbook” is an excellent reference on the K1 content of foods, it has one bad piece of advice. Their recommendation is to absolutely minimize the consumption of Warfarin. The correct approach is to maintain a constant level. Most people do not do what I...

I would say that LondonAndy is probably correct. I always test weekly. When I have a change of some sort in my diet or get sick, I will test twice in a week to make sure it did not throw me off. For example 1 or 2 eight hour tylenol will boost my INR by about 0.2 but 6 over three days will boost...

Thank you. No offense taken. The thread popped up on my screen and I saw "Kaiser" not the date. Then, I saw my cardiac surgeon's name. Wow. His seeing me on short notice, agreeing with my wife that I had congestive heart failure and then adding that "you are going into surgery next week" is the...

Marty, Dr. LeFrak did my surgery as well in 2004. He was superb. I understand that he is retired now. I started self testing last year and have been rigourously documenting everything on a spreadsheet per ProtimeNows suggestions. Dr. Stacey Johnson of the University of Utah did a series of...

Karen, Look in the Durable Medical Equipment (DME) section of your Kaiser Benefits Brochure. Mine includes a section that says INR Testing Equipment as the last paragraph. However, it is Kaiser Mid-Atlantic so it may be different from yours.. I have found that some Kaiser's include this as a...

Eva, You said "The difference in ratio between your machine and the lab will always be the same". Dr. Johnson, in tests at the University of Utah Medical School's AntiCoagulation clinic showed the exception(s) that prove the rule. If the reagent used in the Lab machine or the INR test meter...

They used to give me Percocet which is Oxycodone (5 mg) plus Tylenol (325 mg). After my valve surgery 16 years ago, my internist switched me to separate doses of Oxycodone and Tylenol so she could precisely control the doses of each that I was receiving. She wanted to reach the maximum of...

Sheenas, Test, Test, Test - One time when I took 2 of 8 hour Tylenol, my INR only went up 0.2, another time it went up 1.0, a third time, before I knew it might affect my INR, I took it steadily (2 sets of 8 hour a day) for a week and my INR jumped to 5.5 and I got 3 painful hematomas in my...

Your other posts today may have part of the answer hidden in them. About a year ago, I was told to take 8 hour Tylenol for pain as it was the only medicine that did not interact with Coumadin. I ended up in the Urgent Care facility of my health plan as my internist was 95% convinced I had a...

Could it be that the hospital has two labs - one for inpatients and one for outpatients? The difference you got is huge. Even uncorrected, my differences have never been more then 0.5. Never 1.7 or 2.4. It sounds like they have not calibrated the system they used against the World Health...

I tracked my last 7 paired laboratory blood draw tests and CoagSense blood tests. Then, using Apple's Numbers and Microsoft's Excel spread sheet, I did a regression analysis. Since I did not change labs between blood draws and used the same batch of test strips, I was able to get a correlation...

Tom, Thank you for the MedScape article on how the hospital responded. It looks like they did all the right things in the right order and modified as they learned. I will be able to understand the Daily White House Coronavirus briefings much better now. -Yesterday I relearned from Dr. Fauci all...