Dr. Drew ‘gravely concerned’ about Hillary Clinton’s ‘1950-level’ health care

www.washingtontimes.com ^ | Thursday, August 18, 2016 | By Jessica Chasmar

[DoughtyOne]

I do not bruise. It just doesn’t happen.

I do not bleed profusely.

Side by side I’ll bet I clot faster with cuts than you do.

Don’t forget. I clot easy. Taking Coumadin only gets me back to where I clot like you do, if I take the proper levels. I think there is a misconception about bleeding with Coumadin, and I think physicians further that misconception. If they would think of Coumadin thereapy as returning the patient’s clotting to reasoned levels, I think they’d get a clearer picture of reality. Instead they seem to think of how that much Coumadin would affect a normal person’s clotting. Sadly, I am NOT normal.

Maybe there are people out there who bleed profusely, but I sure don’t.

Coumadin is a medication that you need to take a few days to get up to therapeutic levels. While green leafed vegetables are an issue, if you’re like me and eating them once or twice a week, you’re likely not going to have problems. Your levels are decent, one day you eat green leafy vegetables, your Coumadin levels coast a bit.

Another words, slow to get up to therapeutic levels means slow to come down from them too. Yes they fluctuate a bit, but (IMO) not that much with intermittent meals containing green leafy items.

People should study up to know exactly how they should hand the green leafy vegetable issue. I’m not trying to dismiss it.

Of course I’m only stating my own personal observations, and can’t say how others would be affected at all. I can take Vicodin and other family members get very nauseated when they take it. People’s bodies react differently.

More on cuts.

I found a way to stop bleeding almost immediately. It involves a moist paper towel and pressure.

I use the Viva paper towels. They are almost like cloth.

I fold the towel over a few times and run cool water over it. It absorbs the water and I’m left with a smooth flat wet pad. I squeeze it to reduce the water to where it is just dry enough not to drip. It is still very wet.

I place the new wet pad over the cut and apply pressure. This pressure is intended to be firm, but not tight.

Why use a wet towelette? I have a theory about why you bleed, and it involves your blood pressure being higher than the air pressure outside the body. The fluid under higher pressure seeks the lower pressure environment. You leak blood.

The moist towelette provides a liquid seal at the place of injury. As soon as you apply the pressure, you have a most environment on the cut on the outside. Fluid for fluid, with pressure, this reduces the higher/lower pressure situation such that the blood at the cut, is a lot less likely to flow through. This causes the blood to stop at the cut, and clot there, not on the outside where it hits the air.

Keep the towelette on the site for a few minutes. Don’t move it. Being wet, it won’t stick to the site. A clot won’t grow. You won’t pull off a building scab. Everything remains moist, and you are free to remove the pad.

I will move the pad every minute or so at first. Why?

If you remove the clean pad, you’ll be able to see the amount of bleeding that took place on the first application. As you put it back down in a new clean place (on the pad), you will begin the second bleeding session. When you pull it off again, you’ll be able to see the change in bleeding.

Generally, you’ll see significant reduction in bleeding right away. By the end of five to ten minutes, you’ll note the bleeding has stopped. After two or three one minute intervals where you move the pad, you’ll probably want to change to moving it once every three minutes or so.

Keeping the pressure on the cut, by putting a rubber band carefully around the paper towelette can keep it applied, so you don’t need to hold it. It doesn’t need to be super tight. Just keep it firmly in place.

Beyond the point where the bleeding has stopped, keeping the pressure on the site can reduce the amount of scaring.

I’ve had cuts on the fact of my thumb, across my finger print. I’ve cut clear through the layers. Using this method, I’ve had the opening almost reseal with much of a scar at all. In a few days you’ll still see it, but it will be very faint. Within a week it will almost be gone.

This works good if you scrape your arm, cut your finger, get a nick shaving, or even if your scrape is say one inch by three inches.

This method can also keep a real thick scab from forming.

Keep the pad refreshed with water and applied for longer, and the scab that develops will be much thinner than it would have been.

This really works good for me.

[freedom1st]

BTTT

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you. I noticed some mistyping in there. Sorry about that.

I have a hard time proofreading my copy, because when I read it back, I’m likely to read sentences at a time, and I miss the misspelled words.

[Navin Johnson]

I completely understand and everyone has different physical limitations that require specific care. It seems to me your condition would make Coumadin a necessary and helpful regimen.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for your follow on comments.