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I live in Northern Virginia and have my INR checked by my HMO, a group that believes in spacing out the tests as much as possible. I purchased a Coag-Sense from Wilburn Medical ( 1 (877) 945-2876 ) https://wilburnmedicalusa.com/pt-inr-testing/ ***** The current listing at the site is almost...

Kaiser does follow Medicare and CDC recommendations for its Standard of Care. Unfortunately, Medicare and the CDC are not always transparent in why they make reccomendations. Sometimes the committees that they use are stacked with MDs from Universities and Big Pharma companies and these MDs...

Our pulmonary doctor told us that the PPSV23 vaccine only conferred very brief immunity and was no longer recommended and had us get the PVC13 vaccine for children. My wife and I then received the PVC13 vaccine (several years ago) and were sick for a month afterwards. So, it was probably very...

Google and Duck Duck Go are your friends. I entered "2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee" and got a list of links. The first one hit was the pdf that I could then download. The URL it gave me was...

The electromagnetic information was not on my first card from St. Jude. it was been on the last two. I got an updated card when my surgeon retired and they put the name and phone number of my cardiologist in their internal referral computer for when emergency rooms call them. (interestingly...

My St. Jude valve card, on the back, has a list of electromagnetic characteristics of the MRI machine that the St. Jude valve can tolerate. Some of the MRI manufacturers have made new machines capable of affecting even my St. Jude valve. This valve up until 10 years ago was incapable of being...

My wife read in one of her nursing magazines that walking into a different room and forgetting why you were going there is one of the most common memory lapses. The magazine said that this is because a different room is a different environment and we are tuned to scan the new room for threats...

I accidentally misread the dosage on my wife's K2 pills and was off by a factor of 100. I took them for several days. My next INR at the lab dropped from 3 to 1.5. I stopped taking them and increased my warfarin in conjunction with my coumadin clinic's recommendation. After a week, my INR...

I purchased a Coag-Sense from Wilburn Medical. It was pricey but the bundle included a one year supply of lancets, transfer tubes and test strips. Most important, since I have had it now for 3 months, I have 5 test data pairs from the Coag-Sense and from my HMO's lab. At the hi and low end the...

I agree with you that you need K1. I have said elsewhere that the main percieved long term side effects of Warfarin are actually side effects of Vitamin K1 deficiency. The Coumadin Cookbook gives a long list of Vitamin K1 values for foods in an appendix. Since I have a target consumption of 300...

One of my pharmacists pointed me to an article that says the metabolic system regards both alcohol and warfarin as poisons and processes them at highest priority. His recommendation was to stick to one glass of alcoholic beverage per meal and to keep the alcohol an hour or two away from the...

Thanks for the tips. My current issue is that my meter (for the first 4 lab tests) can be correlated with the lab to about 96%. The regression equation puts the meter with + or minus 0.1 of the lab. The issue to me is that you had mentioned in another post that your meter tended to read about...

If you do not mind my asking, are they still in business? They are not answering their phone calls nor do the calls transfer to an answering machine? Did you get your strips from them? I assume this is the company...

Read the book "Alzheimer's - What if there was a cure" by Dr. Newport. Her husband developed Alzheimer's. She later found out that a class of drugs called Anti-Cholinergics can contribute to Alzheimers. She also found out that glycation effects from sugar in the blood can create plaque by...

My St. Jude valve is in the mitral position and yours is in the aortic position. I do recall reading that aortic valves require less anti-coagulation then mitral valves because of the differences in blood flow speed and and turbulence in the blood passing thru the valve. That may be the reason...

It is interesting that they told you 2-2.5 for a St. Jude Valve and told me 2.5-3.5. I had mine implanted in 2004. When did you get yours? Protimenow got his in 1991 and has successfsully used 2.5-3.5 . My Coumadin clinic got the recommendation from St. Jude's and I have seen it in medical...

Subject: RefReports - Research Bias - Ethics, Statistics - Most Research Findings Wrong Caution - This study finding no benefit for dietary supplements is a survey study not a randomized control study with statistical controls and is not double blind. The summary article says "Zhang’s team took...

I goofed and misread the dosage on my wife's K2 pill (a combo mk4 and mk7). My INR dropped from 3.0+- to 2.0. This really "messed with" the mind of my anti-coagulation clinic pharmacist and I had to switch pharmacists to get back on track. So, K2 in large doses can affect the INR. At least mine...

Actually, when you say "your assumption that labs get it right." is close but not quite accurate. My assumption is that the lab's results can be closely correlated to my Coag-Sense meter meter results. This was done by Dr. Stacy Johnson of the University of Utah in three different papers using...

Pellicle, Thank you for the link. Initially, dropbox did not work. I used the filename to search for it and found the pdf on an Italian Roche web site and later on a couple others. After I found those, dropbox allowed me to download it but not to save it as a pdf. I finally got it saved as a...