For newer Coumadin users

[Karlynn]

Please remember that if you are going to a lab, doctor's office or clinic to get your INR tested that they MUST get back to you the same day with your #'s and any dosage changes. This is resposible protocol. Getting back to you 2 days or a week later (my mother-in-law's experience) is not acceptable and proves that they are not familiar with the correct protocol for warfarin management.

If you haven't heard by the end of the working day, make a call. If they don't have your information - change your testing facility.

 

[Marty]

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My worst post op anxiety had to do with waiting for a phone call from my cardiologist's office. I would go to the lab early AM, sit for an hour with all kinds of sick people, then be ushered into a cubicle, a busy tech would rush in and butcher one or two veins, then out to sign a million forms, and then home. I'd wait around the phone all day not wanting to miss the call. They only called same day about 50% of the time. When they did call it was always somebody who was in a hurry, she would read off the dose schedule with changes if any and then out of there. Never talked to a doctor. If they didn't call I would call them the next day and this was no fun either to find somebody who knew about my test. Well my Coaguchek changed all this and I've been self testing and self dosing for 7 years. Much less anxiety.