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I have been on Coumadin (Warfarin) for 4 years on a permanent basis, after my 2nd blood clot in 5 years. First doctor; no dark green leafy vegetables, no cranberries. (No cranberry sauce? Might as well cancel Thanksgiving...)

Switched doctors after I moved. No dark green leafy vegetables, no products including peanut oil, including peanuts. But, cranberries are okay.

And when you are on Warfarin/Coumadin, you need to get an INR at least once a month, so the doctor can monitor your levels. (either 2.0 to 3.0, OR 1.8 to 3.5 depending on who you talk to in the doctor's office.) If the test results fall outside the acceptable range; too high or too low, test again in 2 weeks, not 4 weeks.

I travel a lot for my employer, and the last several months my INR score was all over the board. So I talked to the Hematology expert on the doctor's staff about switching to another medication that does not require testing.

Net result; I am on a medication developed recently, instead of Warfarin (developed in the 1940's), and there is no special testing, and no food restrictions.

I do have to pay out of pocket for the new medication, whereas the Warfarin/Cumadin was no charge, and my Blue Cross Blue Shield plans pays a lot more. The expert I talked to before I switched indicated that the profession expects to get out of Coumadin in the next few years for blood clots, because there is too much overhead associated with it.

So why is Hillary on a medication that is being phased out ASAP? There is very limited advantage for Cumadin other than cost, since it has pretty much gone generic. And it requires diet restrictions and frequent testing. There is another reason Hillary is using that, because I refuse to believe that she is trying to save money with the generic.

Funny you should bring that up because, indeed, my own doctor told me I didn’t have to go on Coumadin, that there were other products.

But they are expensive, as doc tells me.

For now I am with the Warfarin because first I am already going into the donut hole at year end but right now I am more content having this closely supervised that my gums and eyes do not bleed all over the place.

Next year I’ll probably switch over.

But as to why on earth Hillary is still taking Coumadin, goodness, you got to wonder why don’t you?

I’ll take a guess. Her being on Coumadin gives her an excuse for frequent testing, testing that might be more for Parkinson symptoms than Coumadin readings.

Cause she doesn’t need to go through all that stuff with Coumadin.

I have been wondering about the Warfarin Hillary is said to be taking. As you say, there are newer replacements such as Pradaxa and eloquis which are expensive if not covered by insurance or co-pay. Hardly a consideration for Her Highness. No fuss, no muss like Warafin. We simply do not have access to the facts of Hillary Clinton's physical condition. Nor of her mental impairments. Like Roosevelt, Kennedy and LBJ, the democrat press will cover for her even as she is wheeled off on a gurney to another recovery site.