Old 10-22-04 | 04:30 AM
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Originally Posted by crosswater
Eat more greens! Didn't they tell you not to change your eating habits. If you don't eat green leafy veggies, you need to tell them.
Right now, we are still trying to get the dosage for the coumadin adjusted to my body and diet. They told me to eat my normal diet, which I am doing, and not to change my eating habits, which I haven't.

I fail to see your point.

I am doing as they ask as far as eating. The worst thing would be to eat a whole lor more greens than usual, and get a false "reading" for my coumadin dosage.

First you tell me to 1."eat more greens" and then you say 2. "Didn't they tell you not to change your eating habits."

Which is it, I can't do both?

And I still pose my question about the Vitamin K. I asked the pharmacist what the medical folks would do if I was bleeding and it wouldn't stop, and she replied that first they would give me Vitamin K - 2.5 mg orally (assuming I could take it orally) and then another 2.5 mg orally. If I was unconscious, they would give me injectable along with a whole blood transfusion.

So, do any of you keep Vitamin K with you in case the emergency medical personnel can't get to you?

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