Word: coumadin
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...Drugs most likely to give you trouble: The common drugs to be most concerned about are two - coumadin and narcotics...
...Coumadin is the "blood thinner" we use when you've had a stroke, heart valve replacement or blood clot. It works by poisoning an enzyme in your liver that helps produce clotting factors. Its blood thinning (anticoagulating) effect comes on slowly but can quickly become (dangerously) greater than we want when you take different drugs or even different foods. The anticoagulation we want can easily overshoot - with dire consequences. It also can render ineffective or too effective, other drugs that are processed in the liver. Getting you on just the right dose of coumadin takes about a week, then...
...While I was on the Coumadin [the blood thinner], until it really kicks in, I was in a two-three day risk period,” Lehe said. “They kind of half expected that to happen, but they didn’t tell...
...suggests is that some people may need more protection than aspirin alone can offer. Doctors I consulted said they would not recommend changing medications on the basis of this study but they might be quicker to put high-risk patients on more powerful anticlotting drugs, such as Plavix or Coumadin. For the rest of us, "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" probably still applies...
...instance, ginkgo biloba, used by almost 11 million Americans to improve memory and increase blood circulation. Doctors now believe ginkgo may reduce the number of platelets in the blood and can prevent blood from clotting properly. Taking ginkgo at the same time one is taking blood-thinning medications, like Coumadin or even aspirin, could make a patient dangerously vulnerable to bleeding...