We have to have Vitamin K in some form, and too many are not getting it.
The three “newer” blood thinners appear to be over $450 a month.
Translation:
“Pay us money rather than using generics.”
Yes, I was on Plavix. Generic. Doctor wanted to switch me to Brillinta, $400+ a month. No thanks.
To the story, doctors took me off Plavix a couple years ago after I had a very severe stomach ulcer. Lost a lot of blood. It wasn’t caused by the Plavix but being on it didn’t help. I had been on it for more than 10 years. Ulcer is healed now, but the cardiologist thinks I don’t need to be back on Plavix at this point.
By and large I trust old, generic meds but of course sometimes scientific improvements come along. At these prices for new drugs people are forced to make a cost benefits decision.
Seems lately to be an all out war on aspirin.
Makes me wonder why.
I was on Plavix and still got a clot that took a considerable share of my eyesight
Now I’m on eliquis and a baby aspirin. So far, so good
My dad had a clot, and 3 days later on warfarin, he had a bleed that cost him half of his eyesight on the same side as mine
Stay away from wayfarin. They have a hard time adjusting the dosage, requiring constant trips for bloodwork
Before I got medicare, eliquis was $445/ mo even with GoodRX
With my Part D, it’s $45
Plavix was under 20, but it didn’t work out for me very well
Especially after letting them inject you with the WuFlu frankenshot. Make sure you only use the pills that Big Pharma sells at $1,200 a pop.
Taking blood thinners AND aspirin may be stupid. I’ve always heard warnings not to do it. But HEALTHY people taking an aspirin a day? Doesn’t bother me. And nothing in this study says it should.
In five years over the counter aspirin will be illegal in the United States.
That is a cheap internet ad headline. iPhone users need to know this secret ( Do this tonight). I don’t know how people can be so gullible. Anyway how many head traumas are you going to have versus a stray blood clot that causes a stroke? Like Covid vaccinations. How bad is Covid anyway which is rather predictable as opposed to getting an experimental vaccine? I have naturally thin blood not hemophiliac but when I cut myself I bleed profusely. I would rather bleed than have a stroke. Most people don’t see what a stroke will do if you don’t die from it because all of the care homes and convalescent facilities where stroke victims are stored out of sight and out of mind. Half body paralysis, inability to speak or walk.
I wonder who would post this kind of garbage. Is your life so dull? Don’t stop taking your blood thinners thinking you are going to do better after bumping your head.
It’s what led to my dad’s death - had been on coumadin for years, hit his head in a fall, had undiagnosed brain bleed, fell three weeks later, found old bleed and new bleed and things went downhill from there.
“One benefit of the newer blood thinners is the ability to eat higher Vitamin K veggies”
So, if I use a newer blood thinner I can eat Kale for that wonderful dirt flavor I crave, and yummy Brussell Sprouts again! Yea! /s
garbage study/paper: Plavix is an anti-platelet medication and the others are anti-coagulants. Anti-platelets inhibit clotting in the arteries and anti-coagulants inhibit clotting in veins, because arteries and veins have entirely different clotting mechanisms, and you cannot substitute one class of medications for the other, and to conflate the two classes of medications as “blood thinners” is childish nonsense.
‘The three “newer” blood thinners appear to be over $450 a month.’
that’s after insurance, if I’m not mistaken; I take Eliquis for a-fib, and the cost breakdown on my benefits statement showed the raw price of over $1000 for a 90 day supply...the insurance (UHC) covered all but 250...
I am a pfizer retiree, and I get this drug free, which is a huge deal, because otherwise I’d be taking warfarin, aka rat poison...
Taking aspirin with blood thinners is probably not a good idea at all. Even just aspirin taken regularly can make me bleed like a stuck hog.
This study is looks an awful lot like a ploy to sell more and more expensive drugs.
Greed of money knows no bounds. The truth about Fauci book shows him to be a medicine promoter and likely for money.
Nothing wrong with money so long as it is earned for good reason and ethically and legally. In the case of Pfizer and the jab I doubt any of this is true.