Hi all,
After 35+ years on Coumadin, we've taken mom off it (with approval of her cardiologist). She has been on hospice since May and up until about 2 months ago things were ok with her coumadin with me doing weekly or 2x weekly testing and making small adjustments as needed to dosing (with lab's input). About 2 months ago, she had another downturn and since then, we've not been able to get things under control. In the same week she'll go from 1.6 to 3.9 and even downward dose adjustments or a skipped dose one day wouldn't bring it down. Given her current health conditions and the swings that we can only attribute to not consistent eating (she's sleeping more, swallowing is often hard due to her neurological condition) and likely the start of her liver and other things shutting down, the hospice folks suggested stopping the warfarin since if the INR went too high they can't administer the vitamin K at home etc etc. I fought for several weeks with multiple testing, reviewing her eating habits, minor changes in dosage etc since I didn't want her off the warfarin but then I talked to her cardiologist (who she's been with the entire 35+ years and also knows of her other issues) and he said at this point taking her off was fine and frankly less risky so as of 10/31 we stopped the warfarin treatment.
All that being said, since you folks have all been so helpful on the site with various questions I've had over the years, I was wondering if someone wanted the extra strips. Because I'm a type A personality, I didn't want to take the chance with the 6 / month that came from Roche via medicare so I had 2 packs of 24 I'd been using. I believe I have 4 or 5 unopened cartons of the 6 strip containers for the Coagucheck XS with the chips included. Thought if anyone wasn't testing through insurance and getting strips supplied to them, I may be able to help defray their costs. Roche only said they'd send me a label to send the meter back and just asked me to take the battery out so I assume they don't want their strips back
Also, I have a decent amount of the lancets that are the single use "T" shaped blue and white ones (couldn't get a good drop out of mom no matter what we did in the way of warm washcloths, rubber band tourniquet etc so we went to these slightly bigger T things) so if anyone wants them, please let me know.
If you want to PM me that's fine, I figure first come first served
thanks!
After 35+ years on Coumadin, we've taken mom off it (with approval of her cardiologist). She has been on hospice since May and up until about 2 months ago things were ok with her coumadin with me doing weekly or 2x weekly testing and making small adjustments as needed to dosing (with lab's input). About 2 months ago, she had another downturn and since then, we've not been able to get things under control. In the same week she'll go from 1.6 to 3.9 and even downward dose adjustments or a skipped dose one day wouldn't bring it down. Given her current health conditions and the swings that we can only attribute to not consistent eating (she's sleeping more, swallowing is often hard due to her neurological condition) and likely the start of her liver and other things shutting down, the hospice folks suggested stopping the warfarin since if the INR went too high they can't administer the vitamin K at home etc etc. I fought for several weeks with multiple testing, reviewing her eating habits, minor changes in dosage etc since I didn't want her off the warfarin but then I talked to her cardiologist (who she's been with the entire 35+ years and also knows of her other issues) and he said at this point taking her off was fine and frankly less risky so as of 10/31 we stopped the warfarin treatment.
All that being said, since you folks have all been so helpful on the site with various questions I've had over the years, I was wondering if someone wanted the extra strips. Because I'm a type A personality, I didn't want to take the chance with the 6 / month that came from Roche via medicare so I had 2 packs of 24 I'd been using. I believe I have 4 or 5 unopened cartons of the 6 strip containers for the Coagucheck XS with the chips included. Thought if anyone wasn't testing through insurance and getting strips supplied to them, I may be able to help defray their costs. Roche only said they'd send me a label to send the meter back and just asked me to take the battery out so I assume they don't want their strips back
Also, I have a decent amount of the lancets that are the single use "T" shaped blue and white ones (couldn't get a good drop out of mom no matter what we did in the way of warm washcloths, rubber band tourniquet etc so we went to these slightly bigger T things) so if anyone wants them, please let me know.
If you want to PM me that's fine, I figure first come first served
thanks!
