COUMADIN Reviews (WARFARIN SODIUM)Average Rating: 3.1 (876 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare COUMADIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR COUMADIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Bilateral PE | SORENESS AND TINGLING IN MY HANDS AND FINGERS, TIRE EASY, INR HAS BEEN STEADY IN RANGE, WEIGHT GAIN, SORE JOINTS, I GAVE THIS A 4 BECAUSE IT SAVED MY LIFE BUT SIDE EFFECTS ARE NOT GOOD. THE LONGER I HAVE BEEN TAKING IT THE MORE THE SIDE EFFECTS INCREASED. i WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT. | F | 56 | 90 days 10MG 1X day | 10/28/2014 | 4 | open heart surgery | My eyes will just close for a few mins I would like to know If anyone else has this problem | F | 76 | 2 months 30 -40 | 8/18/2014 | 4 | 3 P.E.'s, factor 5 | Bruising if my INR is too high. | This drug "Saved" my life. My first PE the dr. thought was a result from a surgery I had experienced. The double PE that hit me a few years later, almost killed me. I'm grateful I was tested for the factor screening, that I'm here to enjoy family, friends and life. I'm active, I motorcycle, bicycle, hike and horse back ride...Don't be afraid to live! You can still have hobbies. I monitor my diet and other prescriptions that might interfere with my dosage. I gained weight initially because of physical limitions, but joined TOPS and got it off! We all make adjustments.... That's what compromise is all about! Wake up out there! Someday I hope it won't be necessary to ply myself with "rat poison" but it could be worse, I could be dead! | F | 56 | 15 years 5-7mg's 1X day | 7/14/2014 | 4 | cerebral sinus thrombosis | Colder than usual but extremely thankful for this med. | F | 45 | 1 months 9.5 mg dai | 2/27/2014 | 4 | Dvt left leg | Major anxiety, tingle in feet and legs, nausea, blurry vision, eye pain, rapid heart rate, really bad at night!!! Praying things get better. | Buzzing in ears, depressed. | F | 46 | 2 months 2.5 1X day | 2/1/2014 | 4 | Arterial clots | Tired, peeling fingernails, brain fog | F | 62 | 2 months 10 mg 1X day | 1/3/2014 | 4 | lupus anticoagulant | Anxiety. If inr becomes too high i feel fluish if inr is too low i feel very tired. | F | 33 | 3 years 8mg | 9/30/2013 | 4 | Pulmonary embolism | Extreme fatigue (I'm exhausted all the time!) hair loss, and the interaction with my other medications is causing me to get frequent headaches/migraines | After much trial and error to get the right dosage, I'm now taking 7.5mg 4 days a week and 11.25mg the other 3 days each week. I am two months into a six-month course of Coumadin and cannot wait to be off this medication. I'm so tired of the side effects and having to watch my diet so carefully. However, my heart rate is slowly decreasing, so I know that the Coumadin is doing it's job and that my body is breaking down the blood clot. | F | 34 | 2 months 7.5mg 1X day | 6/21/2013 | 4 | Pulmonary embolism surgery | Hair loss after 3 months | Glad to get the okay to stop! | F | 52 | 4 months 10 mg 1X day | 3/19/2013 | 4 | Saddle embolism after broken bone | I feel tired all the time, slightest activity leaves me short of breath, headaches most days and generally feel aches and pains. | I know that I am lucky to have survived and try to think positively. I have to take warfarin for 6 months and think its a small price to pay for still being around | F | 60 | 10 days 3.5 1X day | 1/7/2013 | 4 | Ileo femoral DVD, left leg | I had a massive dvt when I was 23... Fit and highly active, unexplained, so they put me on long term warfarin. I've been a little irresponsible with inr and missing dosage, and as a result, they're moving me to a new drug. | Personally, I would like to think that some of the ailments being described are as a result of warfarin, especially weight gain! Before reading this site, I had heard that warfarin can cause water retention but I would heavily discourage you in taking diaretics as this is in part what helped make my dvt so big. Evenso, my experience of the last 20 years is this: if you are getting headaches, chest pain or any other non-normal events, either see a doctor, or remember that you have suffered a life threatening event and anxiety is a natural reaction to this. I used to wake up in cold sweats believing that I was having a PE or something. This happened for years, even now sometimes. Just take a deep breath and relax. Take more exercise, do something at least once a day. I play badminton at least 3 times a week and feel good for it. But I do still get anxious. It's only natural and can cause all sorts of phantom symptoms. Good luck to you all. | M | 43 | 20 years 8mg/day 1X day | 7/16/2012 | 4 | Dvt in both legs, clotting disorder | I take the generic warfarin. I really haven't noticed any side effects that are bothersome. I bruise a little easier and keeping track of vitamin K intake is kind of a pain. No hair loss or weight gain. | The biggest thing is remembering there are a lot of drug interactions and to ask your hematologist about any med you take including all over the counter meds. Other than that it works great. I could however do with out the INR testing, but better safe than sorry. | F | 35 | 5 years 15-20mg 1X day | 4/24/2012 | 4 | dvt,pe | tiredness, forgetfulness,, pain in joints, chest pain,heavy periods headaches funny taste in mouth hair loss weight gain bloating depression etc. | started on coumadin spoke to M.D. about side affects, was told these symptoms are not typical for coumadin users. | F | 44 | 2.7 years 7.5 mg5mg 1X day | 3/30/2012 | 4 | 2nd time with DVT | Dizzy, foggy, odd pains/sensation in my head, I feel like a bobble head at times, vision disturbance, COLD, and I do not feel like me. I am completely changed by the medicine. I am 5"7 and 155 pounds. This dosage is big and my inr is still only 2.3 I have 3 different dosages that I am typcially on. 7.5mg 3xs a week and 10mg 4 xs a week, 10mg 7xs a week, or 15mg 3xs a week and 10mg 4 times a week. I am going to beg a new dr to try pradaxa...even though I am not on warafin as a result of a heart issue. I deleveloped blood clots twice..10 years apart. I am not overweight, never smoked, never on birth control, and no genetic link. I want to try Pradaxa. I want to eat my veggies the way I want to eat them and to have my head feel like its not going to roll of my shoulders, or get light headed walking up stairs. You know the little normal things we all use to take for granted. Good LUCK to all of you and prayers for your health. | I would love to wake up one day...just one....and actually feel GOOD. | F | 39 | 2 years 10 1X day | 3/7/2012 | 4 | Mechanical Mitral valve | Cold/numb hands/feet (really bad on the feet) takes ages to stop bleeding (thats obvious though) tiredness, nearly all the time (like i want to sleep not feeling like i've ran a mile or six) Depressed, anxious, feelings of impending doom (thinking im going to drop dead any second) | Mechanical mitral valve caused by Rhumatic fever, on Bisoprolol and Ramipril as well, i think these drugs give me worse side effects. I have to take Coumadin/Warfarin FOREVER. Recently i have had a migraine that lasted 7 days (terrible pain for a day then dull pain for next 6 days) and my mind is all 'foggy' i really hope this is unrelated to my warfarin. Having to take it for the rest of my life i would like to get on well with it! Since i lived with knackered heart valves for 12 years and always thought it was fitness related (im a tallish thin guy, never been overweight at all) i've never really known (remembered) what 'normal' feels like. Im no longer tired after walking to town and back (talking feeling like i'd ran a few miles). So my mechanical valve is helping me and i doubt the warfarin is really affecting me as after 15 weeks i only got a migraine and felt 'weird', nothing really before so maybe its my other medication?. | M | 24 | 15 weeks 7.5 1X day | 3/6/2012 | 4 | DVT | Probably saved my life. My experience is similiar. For the first 6 months I had a lack of energy. Mostly caused by inactivity and diet. Inactivity caused a 20 lb weight gain in 7 months. I still experience sensitivity to cold weather. I never have slept much. Though for awhile I did not have any energy. My doctor aid I had a low red blood cell count. So I started taking wheat grass juice and ounce every 2 or 3 days. My energy increased by 80% in the first week. My last blood test was normal for red blood cells 3 weeks ago. When I first started on warfarin I stopped eating vegitables, I didn'k know which ones had vitamin K, so now my colestral is a bit high. My doc has told me to start eating veggies or I'll be on a pill to reduce the colestral. So my current plan is to cut meat down to 5% of what I was eating and that is still alot. Increase veg intage by juicing and drinking the veggies. My doc told me today that I would be on warfarin for the rest of my life. Maybe we will see in a y | M | 62 | 350 days 5 1X day | 2/29/2012 | 4 | P Embolism | Tingling and weakness on extremeties including back of head, arms and legs. Fatigue and nausia has occured but has leveled out. Can tell when the INR is high as the fatigue and nausia increases. Can almost adjust the dosage based on the fatigue level. | Hope to be off soon or have alernate drugs. GL all. | M | 49 | 6 months 9 1X day | 2/19/2012 | 4 | DVT left calf, PE | Easy bruising (obviously), lack of focus, confusion, diziness, fatigue, and crazy vivid (usually quite graphic) dreams. | F | 27 | 4 months 7.5 MG | 2/8/2012 | 4 | dvt in both legs | Tired. Heavy chested. Fatigued. Cannot level out. Dry mouth. Just don't feel like myself since being on it. But it is doing what its supposed to be doing. I hope. Thank god it looks like I won't be permanently on it. | M | 32 | 6 months 10 | 1/29/2012 | 4 | PE | Light headedness and tiredness. | Also had previous PE about 10 years ago and was on Warfarin for 6 months, cannot remember dose but then had no side effects at all. This site is very useful.Had not realised how many different side effects there were. As some have said these should be listed with meds. Another interesting point someone raised was about worse side effects with Warfarin produced by Barr compared with another pharmaceutical company. Mine are by Taro. Has any one else considered this? | F | 62 | 5 weeks 10MG 1X day | 1/28/2012 |