“She might want to ask her cardiologist to try one of the many other anti-coagulant therapies available.”
She’d like to be on Eliquis, but there’s no way they could afford that. Yesterday I paid over $800 for three months. That took care of my yearly deductible, so for the rest of the year it’ll ONLY be around $300 for three months.
As I told the clerk at the pharmacy:
Pfizer makes vaccines that cause blood clots.
Pfizer makes Eliquis that treats blood clots.
She was gobsmacked, like she’d never considered that.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist.
Doc just put me on Eliquis. I’m fortunate in being retired military - I get free from the base pharmacy. Well, not free: it cost me 30 years.
I am in my 81st year of life, and have Afib with weird bp issues. My visit to the cardiologist “electrophysiologist” type never read my medical record, or asked about my history...
Just immediately wanted to put me on Eliquis and something called Amiodarone .
When I butted in to his big lecturing and demands that I do exactly as he said, or else! ~ I mentioned my Hashimotos, Sjorgrens, and other autoimmune symptoms.
He immediately said he would have to put me in the hospital for a couple of days to see if I could tolerate the amiodarone. Since my Afib is the “paroxysmal” version, I kinda thought that was overkill. I have declined his services.
Have her check the side effects of Eliquis before deciding to go that route.
Personally, I dont want to risk the debilitating side effects some experience on Eliquis that would interfere with my desire to remain in independent senior living. I cant afford “assisted living”, and dont want to impoverish my children paying for it.
When you have reached my age, there comes a point where the treatments, drugs, andside effects are worse than the illness. But, everyone has to make their own decisions about health problems. I just wish I could find a doc who wasn’t constrained by the present medical controls over their ability to practice medicine.
I eat primarily a “proper human diet” as described by Dr. Ken Berry and others, and these control my autoimmune issues without the need for any medication other than generic Plavix (clopidogrel) and Levothyoxin. The rest is in God’s hands, but I am going to explore the broccoli idea...