Posted on 01/31/2017 11:59:38 AM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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FR though :)/sarc
Screw that noise. If my staying anticoagulated is so dang important we can bloody well go back to warfarin. Why? The same reason I don't have a red Ferrari even though I'd like one. The pharmaceutical monster is not to be trusted an inch. Warfarin works just fine, has a 50 year history and is as safe as any of them. The only problem is that it is cheaper than water and big pharma can't make money off it. Sorry, not a good enough reason for me.
Besides, your new drug is featured on late night TV ads for ambulance chasers suing on cases where Pradaxa has managed to kill the patient. Be safe, you need something for now I grant, but demand warfarin then demand to be removed from it once your afib is resolved.
There is no conversion for Xeralto. It has to just wear off.
Pay strict attention to your condition, because when you have afib, by default you have some degree of congestive heart failure. That’s the part the cardiologists don’t usually tell you.
Watch for swelling of the feet and legs, unusual fatigue, and difficulty breathing.
I just went through all this and am now recovering from cardiac ablation which got me off all the God awful meds they prescribe to “control” the condition.
Afib is one of those conditions where the treatment can be worse than the disease!
I had a brain bleed incident on Pradaxa and had to wait 24 hours for a successful surgery to remove brain blood.
This was before Predaxa has a reversal agent but I may have helped this research along. My cardio doc was extremely concerned about my brain bleed because it went completely unknown for weeks.
He subseqwuently moved all his other patients off Predaxa for a review period.
These drugs are powerful and affect people differently. Take as much care as you can.
The ablation worked perfectly and I have been in normal sinus rhythm ever since. The doctor told me that the inside of my atrium was a train wreck and he zapped lots of troublesome nodes. It was a congenital defect.
At this point, I could go off the Xarelto and switch to regular blood tests to monitor any recurrence of the clots. (Let's see: go in for a regular appointment to get stuck with a needle, or take a pill. Decisions, decisions.) The wild card in my situation is that the docs could find no underlying reason for the clots. This happens sometimes, but usually there is an identifiable risk factor or precipitant.
There are alternatives with different pluses and minuses. Talk them over with your doc. If option A makes you nervous, try option B. It will have a similarly scary list of health warnings as well; that's one of the prices we pay for living in a litigious world.
I am a nurse who also experiences occasional A. Fib. - I will not take blood thinners, and have also had another doctor say, “good for you” because I would not. Yes, there is a risk but I would rather face that risk if it does arise. I take Flecainide when it comes as I usually have rapid ventricular response with it. Just investigate this further.......
Um, cuts that don’t clot quickly are dangerous, but not usually as dangerous as a heart attack or a stroke...
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This is anecdotal and not a double blind test. YMMV.
As a follow-up; I am a superb clotter which is why the Coumadin (Warfarin) was discontinued.I have shaved with a straight razor because I am a contrarian. An alum bloc usually stops small nicks. When I restore straight razors and sharpen them, I have a copious supply of bandaids and super glue at hand. I am not concerned with bleeding.
I have afib, and have been on coumadin (warfarin) for over 10 years. The monthly blood tests are a miniscule inconvenience, but I wouldn’t switch to one of those outrageou$ “newer and better” drug$ on a bet.
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