Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
Kara-Swart-Bonnet
I take my warfarin every evening at 7 pm...For some reason, this morning I accidentally took my warfarin at 9 am, this is 10 hours too early and only 14 hours after my last dose. I was wondering if anyone else has made this mistake and if I should be worried...also wondering if I should just take my next dose tomorrow at 7 pm (34 hours between doses) or if I should take it a few hours early tomorrow and gradually move it back to 7pm?
rmb
I've done this and it had very little impact on me. If it were me, I'd just take it again at the normal time tomorrow . But I would also suggest calling your doc and seeing what he thinks.
deleted_user
I would definately make a call to your doctor on this one, or at very least your pharmacist. They may want you to come in for an extra INR just to be sure it isn't too high.
ShilosMommy
Personally I wouldn't be overly concerned about this, but if it makes you feel better to call the doctor, then do that. I kind of ended up doing a similar type of thing all the time, just in reverse - I'm bad enough at remembering to take a daily pill if I can take it in the morning, but having to take it in the evening meant I was constantly going to bed and forgetting to take my coumadin. What was a huge problem for me was if I just skipped that dose because I had forgotten the night before. My INR stayed a lot more regular when I went ahead and took the dose in the morning if I had forgotten the previous evening (which meant I ended up taking 2 doses roughly at the same time apart as you've just done). Because the warfarin takes so long to actually affect our blood from the time we take it, I never had any problems. I would do the same as rmb said, just consider this your dose for today, then take the next one at the correct time tomorrow.
Kara-Swart-Bonnet
Thanks you guys! I took your advice and left a message for the nurse to call me back, but I don't feel worried about it anymore...I really appreciate the peace of mind your responses gave me :)
rmb
Good! I will go for months and months with no medication errors and then every once in a while, I'll get distracted or something, and take my morning meds at night or my night meds in the morning. And I even have a pill box that's divided by the days, and morning and night. It happens.
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