Some people need very little warfarin and some need more so it's a hard thing to compare.

I need 14 mgs a day at this point. I had been at 15 mgs for a while, a couple of years ago, and 11-12 mgs for a while but over time things change so the dosage gets adjusted. This has been going on for over 6 years with me. So honestly, I don't know that there's ever one dosage that works, particularly if you're on the stuff for the long term.

Everything depends on why your on Coumadin, how your body metabolized medications, your diet, your activity levels and yes even the number of times you came off Coumadin bridging to Lovenox or heparin and back. I started on 5 mg back in 2005, and before my stroke I was on 10-15 mg a day to maintain a INR of between 2.5-3.5. I needed to be at a higher INR because of my clotting issue and the number of times I had PE's and yes the number of times I had to bridge. I found it harder to maintain that level of consistency the more times I had to bridge back and forth.Every person is different. When I was working it was standard practice for all ortho patients who had knee or hip replacements to automatically be put on 2.5-5 mg daily for a minimum of 3 months prophylactic ally while recuperating from surgery and until they were physically able to get yup and move around better on their own. I am now on Xarelto which is suppose to help me maintain a more balanced INR even though you don't actually check your INR anymore and is dosed by weight and very different for me. Hope this helps. Hugs Ferr

I'm usually either 5.5 or 6 daily. It's changed over time for me as well.

From the matter of perspective, I used to know a lady whose husband took 2mg a WEEK. She was floored when she found out how much I took. From her POV, my dose was completely astronomical.

Everyone's different.

I haven't quite achieved a stable INR, but I still want to put my input in. I'm supposed to be in the INR range between 2-3, like most, but I've been more in the 1.3-1.4 range for the past few weeks (although a 2.2 last week, hoping for good numbers tomorrow as well!). I'm currently on 7.5mg 4 times a week and 10mg 3 times a week. My doc has just been fluctuating it until it stablizes. I'm just over 2 months post-PE.

I had my PE in April. I'm on 2.5mg five days a week and 5mg two days a week, and I'm still hovering around 3-3.5, so still adjusting. My father had PE in Nov 2009 and he never really had good INR control, but he usually took 5 mg tablets, sometimes 7.5mg. My mother had her PE in November 2012. She takes 1mg tablets. She alternates 1 and 0.5 every day and her INR is usually bang in the 2.3-2.5 range. She has type C hemophilia (also known as factor XI deficiency and Jewish bleeding disorder), so she's naturally a bit higher in the INR range even without anticoagulants. So even relatives have different warfarin doses. Thank goodness for the different colored tablets. We don't get them mixed that way.

Ljhcmnt, I thought I was the only one who got different colors! I have light blue for 4 mg, orange for 5 mg, and yellow for 7.5 mg on my counter right now. What color is the 1 mg? Never heard of it referred to as Jewish bleeding disorder. You, Steph and I all look like April '14 PEs, a new subgroup on the board.

Anyone else have a different color? Do they make a 10? I have to take 2 fives tonight.

I think all different warfarin dosages come in different colors, just because mixing up the pills could have such dire consequences.

1mg are pink, BTW.

They do make 10s. I take them.

For grins rmb, what color are the 10s?

Any other colors we know of?

White. Shapes of the pills may vary by the manufacturer.

Gotta love Google: http://www.coumadin.com/html/atpharmacy.htm

Ooh, that link I pasted didn't come over very well. But yeah, just google images of warfarin tablet colors and stuff will come up.

I'm alternating between 8 and 9. My 5 mg tablet is the same color as I think the 1 mg tablet. I have 5 mg, 1 mg, and 4 mg tablets. I was stable for 6 weeks. I had 2 hospital visits on 2 successive weekends, and it was very stable. I was due for my 3 week check, and I almost said don't bother since my hospital numbers were stable, and I was 3.7. So I'm on 8 mg with a recheck on Wednesday.

Mike

They're not the same color. Otherwise, people could confuse the 5mg tablet with the 1mg tablet which could probably kill somebody.

The 1mg and 5mg are different colors, I think they're pink and peach respectively. But my dad had some 1mg (I've almost always used 5mg) and the generic brand we had were close enough in color that it would be easy to confuse without paying close attention. Side by side you could tell the difference, but apart would have been harder. I don't know that every brand is like that, but at least one brand is. If you're using both and they're close to the same color, do be careful.

My mom's 1 mg are very dark pink, fuschia, hot pink, almost red. My dad's 5 mg are peachy-colored, like old-fashioned baby aspirin. A very light color and very different from the 1mg ones. My 2.5 mg are light green.
Jewish bleeding disease/disorder is an old name for Factor XI deficiency, which is now called Hemophilia C. It's an autosomal dominant gene which passes to both male and female offspring. Homozygotes have much more severe symptoms than heterozygotes. For those of you who didn't major in genetics, that means the gene is on a regular chromosome, unlike Hemophilias A & B, which are on the X-chromosome. Both men and women have two copies of this gene, and either gender can have one good and one bad copy of the gene or two bad copies. Those with two bad copies usually bleed more than those with one. It was first discovered and is still most prevalent in Ashkenazi Jewish populations, hence the early-1900's moniker.