Postby bitchslapped » Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:33 pm
That's a real Catch 22 you're in. I'm familiar w/pills for blood thinners (warfarin) as my DM was taking those, but I'm not familiar w/the shots. Sometimes for a procedure, rather than taking her off the pills completely risking another stroke, we would adjust her dosage to keep her @ the low end of the acceptable range. This was all short term for her, for the duration of the procedure, so let's say two or three days @ the reduced dose. Could the dosage be such as to keep you @ the low end of the range? You might ask your doctor if that it would be better than no blood thinner @ all, while minimizing the internal bleeding, if that's possible. So in other words, could you discuss a happy medium w/your doctor? BTW, it was ME, yes you read that right, ME that asked about keeping her PT/INR @ the lower range vs taking her off completely. There are different schools of thought on this as one might expect.
Best Wishes in making a decision on this, Frenchie.
Hugs To You My Friend,
bitchslapped
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