We continue to not help stent and other patients with their long term coronary calcium concerns. I have heard some blood thinning medicines can allow Vitamin K activity to work more normally, and will try to find further information on that.
The science is settled.....We had consensus...............
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15 years. Dose the diet, don’t try to diet the dose. If you eat greens and a salad 3x a week keep doing it. The dose will be titrations to match. It simple and I haven’t had a problem.
I had a stroke last year, and reduced my Vitamin K after my doc said it could interfere with my meds. Now I’m wondering if that’s the right course. Always fun trying to figure out med interactions—especially when dealing with doctors who are not versed in supplements.
He is now a candidate for "The Watchman", a small implant which stops the pooling in his heart which is where these clots begin and causing him some bleeding.
45 days after the implant (size of a quarter) he can get off of warfarin.
I'm sooooo hopeful for him.
I had an Mitral heart valve replacement thirty years ago and have always been on warfarin. I Monitor my blood monthly.
In 2006 I had a stent in the heart and now take even more warfarin, also monitoring it very closely.
If I don’t take enough warfarin I start having “mini-strokes”.
Only time I add extra Vitamin K or greens is if I have too thin blood, INR 5 or above. They want me between 3-4 INR.
Not long ago one of the doctors recommended Eliquis instead of warfarin. On the package of Eliquis it stated “Not for people with artificial heart valves.” So it was back to warfarin.
A woman I worked with had the same valve replaced in her heart. On Warfarin, someone told her she could just use aspirin so she did. Dead a few months later of a blood clot.
If one is on a blood thinning medicine, you think it is ok to take supplements that have blood thinning properties? It is amazing how many supplements thin the blood.