Wednesday, November 28, 2012

What is this site all about?

Firstly, let me start off by saying that I have been on warfarin for many years, and that whilst I have no medical training, I have an extensive scientific training and experience and so can
 interpret most of the information available.

It is the purpose of this site to provide information to those who have been prescribed warfarin,
looking in particular at:
  • Why you might have been prescribed warfarin
  • What exactly is warfarin?
  • How does it work?
  • How do they measure your INR (the level of warfarin in your blood -
                                 or rather the effect of taking warfarin on your blood)
  • How accurate are these measurements?
  • How do doctors determine changes in your dosage?
  • Changes in INR dosage - a warning
  • What problems might you encounter on warfarin?
  • What other options are there for measurement of INR?
  • What other coagulants might be prescribed?

Each of these questions is addressed on separate pages in this blog

 -see the side bar for links.