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evelyn2
Good morning everyone,
I saw my cardio Tuesday with forms in hand to have her sign for the home testing. I also brought articles I printed from QAS site about value of home testing and keeping complications low with self-testing. She has absolutely no desire to monitor my coumadin.
The forms were for the INRatio because of a lot of people here saying they liked this machine. My cardio was very hesitant about the idea of home testing. She stated it was not something to play around with. "How would you keep home monitor calculated - very important." She filled out the papers but stated she would not sign or fax them until she had assurance from the coumadin clinic that they would continue to monitor me and keep track of the home testing.
Today I went to the coumadin clinic, AGAIN because I needed frequent monitoring after being on 12 days of prednisone and Avelox for very bad upper respiratory infection. The nurse practioner is very excited and helpful to be able to do the home monitoring. I will be the clinic's first home monitored patient. She would like me to use the Coag check machine instead of the INRatio because they use coag check in the clinic and she felt it would be better to be testing on the same machine.
She also was unfamiliar with QAS or Raytel. She has talked with a company, Tapestry Medical. She called her contact and found out that the Coag check XS could be acquired.
I noticed the recent post from Isis and the responses about both the INRatio and the Coag check and it seems like both are easy to use and patient friendly. I guess I am just needing additional assurances.
The nurse practioner doesn't care if I use QAS or Tapestry Medical but would like me to get the Coag check.
Any thoughts?
Thank you so much.
Evelyn
I saw my cardio Tuesday with forms in hand to have her sign for the home testing. I also brought articles I printed from QAS site about value of home testing and keeping complications low with self-testing. She has absolutely no desire to monitor my coumadin.
The forms were for the INRatio because of a lot of people here saying they liked this machine. My cardio was very hesitant about the idea of home testing. She stated it was not something to play around with. "How would you keep home monitor calculated - very important." She filled out the papers but stated she would not sign or fax them until she had assurance from the coumadin clinic that they would continue to monitor me and keep track of the home testing.
Today I went to the coumadin clinic, AGAIN because I needed frequent monitoring after being on 12 days of prednisone and Avelox for very bad upper respiratory infection. The nurse practioner is very excited and helpful to be able to do the home monitoring. I will be the clinic's first home monitored patient. She would like me to use the Coag check machine instead of the INRatio because they use coag check in the clinic and she felt it would be better to be testing on the same machine.
She also was unfamiliar with QAS or Raytel. She has talked with a company, Tapestry Medical. She called her contact and found out that the Coag check XS could be acquired.
I noticed the recent post from Isis and the responses about both the INRatio and the Coag check and it seems like both are easy to use and patient friendly. I guess I am just needing additional assurances.
The nurse practioner doesn't care if I use QAS or Tapestry Medical but would like me to get the Coag check.
Any thoughts?
Thank you so much.
Evelyn
