Since I had my stroke, I have started several medications. I take a blood thinner which interacts with EVERYTHING. You think I am kidding. Pull out pretty much any bottle of over-the-counter medication from your medicine cabinet. Under the advisory section, it will say if you take Warfarin please consult your doctor before taking this medication. All cough medicine, relievers, allergy medicine, and anything else. It makes having a backache and pain in the butt.
I recently had a cold and went to the pharmacy to ask what I could take. They suggest some medicine which worked great. When I finished off the medicine, my husband wanted me to go to the doctor since I had been sick for 3 weeks. Turned out I had bronchitis. I was prescribed an antibiotic and narcotic cough medicine. Of course, both of these interact with my medicine so I had to go today to get my protime done.
Protime- clotting time of blood. Determined by have blood drawn. This is specific to warfarin and must be done on a regular basis. Goal is to go once a month but may be done more often if the level is not where the doctor wants it to be.
I went 2 weeks ago and it was fine. I went today and I am waiting for my results. I am pretty sure they are going to say I need to up my medicine. I say this because my arm didn't bleed today which is not good. I get so sick of getting poked and prodded. I never realized how much I took for granted going to the store to relieve my problems.
It is overwhelming sometimes dealing with all of the doctor appointments and keeping straight which doctor for what. Trying to remember to take medicine at certain times of the day. Trying to remember which foods I need to avoid or eat more of to go with my medicine. I never thought I would be told to NOT eat spinach or broccoli but they interact with my medicine.
Boy am I tired today. Being sick and working extra hours really knocks me out. Goodnight!
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