Al

[atydev]

Can you tell me more about Green Tea and if I could possibly drink it with the coumidian.

 

[Ross]

http://www.warfarinfo.com/green-tea.htm

 

[LUVMyBirman]

I would love to drink green teas! Did some reading on the issue....and decided not to mess around with it. It's not worth having issues with my INR. I do enjoy a cup of regular black tea daily

 

[atydev]

Ok

Ok

I guess I will not go back on the green tea. Have been off of it for almost 3 wks and I am still bleeding. I will go friday to check my level again.

 

[sharon]

green tea

green tea

April,
According to what I've read on green tea it is no different than drinking regular tea. There is only a problem if you eat the tea leaves not just from dunking a tea bag. The coumadin web site shows tea and it shows tea leaves as being a separate entity. I drink green tea and haven't noticed any problems. Also drink a green tea made by Brassica that infuses broccoli phytochemicals in it. It was researched and tested at Johns Hopkins Univ and found to only have trace amounts of Vit K in it. When I read about the tea I called the Univ and spoke to researchers who said that the tea was tested and they found that its Vit K content was teeny (not their word). Along with the green tea benefits their tea also gives you broccoli antioxidants without eating broccoli. Are you sure that it was your tea that's been a problem for you?
Sharon
St Judes avr 4/97

 

[Ross]

I highly doubt that a cup now and then is going to do much, but it your a green tea power drinker, then your going to have problems.

 

[Guest]

I have been away at a pharmacy convention and then had to catch up on my orders and e-mail.

 

[azpam]

green tea sent me to the hospital recently for ventricular tachycardia.was the kind already bottled like snapple. green tea is a heart stimulant and the cardiologist said for normal people is ok but those with heart arrythmias/problems, it can stimulate the heart too much-too fast. i had drunk only about 10 oz. over ice and few hours lately, wow. i drink coffee almost daily but dr. said my body was used to coffee not green tea and green tea can be stronger stimulant that regular coffee.pulse of 207 with NO blood pressure.

 

[sharon]

April,
Ever since my avr in '97 I too have had bouts of super ventricular tachycardia. They started about 2 weeks after my surgery. I now only drink decaf tea, coffee and soda. It started out happening quite frequently and lasting at least 5 minutes, but over the years it doesn't happen as often or last as long - Thank G-d. It really was very frightening. Even now I still feel uneasy when it happens. My dr said that about 25% of the people who have heart surgery get svt. Another dr told me that there are a few ways to deal with it to try and put your heart back to a normal rhythm. This is what has worked for me - coughing real hard, bearing down and squeezing as if you are having a bowel movement or putting your hands and arms (and/or your face) in ice cold water. These are things that can jolt your heart back into normalcy usually. You probably wouldn't have trouble with decaf green tea. What else was in the bottled green tea - sometimes they put other herbs in it? You know that sometimes for no reason the tachycardia will happen.
Sharon
St Judes av 4/97

 

[atydev]

Thanks

Thanks

Thanks everyone. I have had no problem with the green tea except at around the time I started going to curves and drinking green tea I started gaining weight....14 lbs. in 4 weeks. Next thing I know I am having a period that kept me from leaving the house for weeks and I fell anemic almost bleed to death and ended up in the hospital for coumidiam poisining. Al made the comment that the hike in my INR was from the water retention. My liver could not process the coumidian. I will say I just got out of the hospital again yesterday for the same problem I was there for a week and I came out 9 lbs lighter 2 pints of blood more than when I went in and I am now stable. I am still on 10 mg 4 days and 15 mg 3 days a week with my INR at 2.4.