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Hi all,
Just got my call from coumadin clinic saying my INR was below 2.0......so they will increase coumadin...how does this happen....8 weeks out and I can't seem to get it stable..what am I doing wrong....I don't eat, cause I have nausea, I don't skip doses....please help me people, what do I do to get stability???? What to do? and my brother in law died last night, could this be the cause?
Just got my call from coumadin clinic saying my INR was below 2.0......so they will increase coumadin...how does this happen....8 weeks out and I can't seem to get it stable..what am I doing wrong....I don't eat, cause I have nausea, I don't skip doses....please help me people, what do I do to get stability???? What to do? and my brother in law died last night, could this be the cause?
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
The rebel in me hates this ---- but you have to do everything in moderation. Keep everything consistent. I know you've had issues on the food side too. But don't beat yourself up, you haven't failed a test that you could have studied harder for or anything - it's just very senstive drug.
Maybe they'll get you to takea slightly higher dose for a couple of days, and that'll do the trick. It'll come good
What you have to do to get stable is just be patient. The reason it's not stable probably isn't related to anything specifically that you are doing or not doing. It can just take a while for some people. It took me many months to get stable. It's frustrating, but finally, I just stopped worrying about it. I mean, all I could do was eat what I normally eat, do what I normally do and leave it up to the doctor to figure out what dosage is going to work for my body. Eventually, it got there.
I'm sorry so much is going on at one time in your life. Take care of yourself.
As for instability stress can be a huge factor and also the diet you are on or any over the counter drugs. So many things affect Coumadin. I have gone from2.6 to 7 in less then a week with no dietary changes at all. It's like my body just said nope, don't like it. I have also gone the other way just as quickly. Ive been on warfin (same thing, just generic) for over 20 years and just a few days ago I had a ultrasound done and they checked my inr first and I was down to 1.5 and had just done an inr a few days before and it was exactly where it was supposed to be. All you can do is adjust the dosage (under a dr. care) and eventually it will be where its supposed to be. There isn't a lot more you can do.
I've had an unruly INR since day one - I'm a year out and I still have issues with it bottoming out in the low 1's. Usually they up my dose for a day then recheck in a week. This last INR got to 2.0, but because I was just at 1.4 they had me take another boost to my dose and we'll check again next week.
You should discuss your nausea with your doctor - to even begin to have a stable INR you need to get back to your normal eating/sleeping/life habits and acheive some consistency there.