Health Update - Page 2

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@hckynutjohn @Tissyanne Thanks for the info on the Eliquis. I appreciate it. I couldn't believe how expensive it is! I will definitely look into it. From what I understand... Eliquis is a 24 hr. pill... in that, if you need emergency surgery, they can do it in a shorter period of time ...whereas with Warfarin the wait would be longer.

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@on the bay wrote:
@jubilant,
Gosh you have been through so much. I hope your doctors will find what they need to help you.
Though you hope they would know exactly what to do in a w ay I think it is good that that doctor said she would have to study more on it. Like not just guessing you know?
I hope you keep feeling better and then all the way to good!

@on the bay I agree about the doctor. She has lots of degrees but was humble enough to admit this one is something she will have to study on. I was impressed. I would prefer to stay close to home. Lot's of people around here get sent to the Cleveland Clinic but I would prefer to be closer to home and the hospital she is affiliated with has a good reputation and is only about a 30 minute drive from us.

cindyNC · ‎08-01-2019

Hope this gets resolved soon for you!

Marieanne · ‎03-09-2010

Prayers for answers and healing.

gloriajean · ‎03-10-2010

Praying for you, Jubilant!!

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

@jubilant wrote:
@hckynutjohn @Tissyanne Thanks for the info on the Eliquis. I appreciate it. I couldn't believe how expensive it is! I will definitely look into it. From what I understand... Eliquis is a 24 hr. pill... in that, if you need emergency surgery, they can do it in a shorter period of time ...whereas with Warfarin the wait would be longer.

@jubilant

I know from my many years on Coumadin(warfarin) they say it stays in your system for 72 hours. With Lovenox it is 12 hours, thus the injections twice a day.

None of my doctors were able explain to me, in terms I believe, why when on Eliquis, there are no blood draws, to check INR/ProTime numbers.

I know those numbers quite well, because I have been on both deadly ends of them. With my 2 episodes of PE(lung blood clots) from low INR/Protime, and almost bleeding out from high INR/Protime. Had I not been in a building connected to the hospital when my INR spiked, I would have bled out.

Were I to need to be on blood thinners, long term again, I would insist on the one that is monitored, Coumadin/Warfarin. That for the reasons I explained above.

Really hope it all works out well for you. 2🙏

hckynut 🇺🇸