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| 1 | double valve replacement | gained over 50 lbs,depression,crying for no reason.crosseyed bouts,dizziness,always tired even after long periods of sleep, foggy mindedness, total lack of motivation and almost all the other side effects posted | thought i was the only one until i found this site god bless you all.i hate this crap and all its side effects but am told i have to keep taking it for ever by my doctor who also makes a fortune running the coumadin clinic.what is it like having your eyes cross doing 65 in the passing lane during rush hour ???i hope u never have to experience it.i have watched the same people in my clinic change into oompaloompas and pillsbury dough boys and most have developed the same painful hobble and yet i'm told by all the professional drug dealers it's my imagination. was also told by doctor not to try naural thinners too unpredictable but i'm not giving up!!! | M | 59 | 6 years 15mg 1X day | 3/14/2011 | 1 | DVD RIGHT CALF AFTER HIP REPLACEMEN | HAIR LOSS!!!!!! EXTREME FATIGUE, SEVERE JOINT PAIN, VERY COLD!!! LACK OF INTEREST OF LIFE!! THEY HAVE TO KEEP ADJUSTING MEDS EVERY WEEK. I HATE THIS DRUG, ITS RAT POISION | I CANT WAIT TO STOP IT | F | 55 | 70 days 7 1/2 1X day | 3/3/2011 | 1 | A-Fib | Hair loss, intense cold in feet, depression, loss of energy and motivation, severe hallucinations nightly. | I developed A-fib on the mid-April morning my husband passed away. In July, my heart was shocked three times before it went back into normal sinus rhythm. The hallucinations began within a month of taking the drug...the only one I am on...and have increased from once or twice a week to two and three times nightly. What began only at night is now bleeding (no pun intended) into the daytime with hearing noises no one else hears. My cardiologist swears the coumadin is not the culprit but I take nothing else. Strange the hallucinations began a month after the drug was fully in my system. | F | 62 | 2 years 2.5 mg 1X day | 3/1/2011 | 1 | atrial fibrillation (non-valvular) | joint pain, bruising, weight gain, fatigue. too many food and drug interactions. difficult to get INR in range due to taking NSAIDs for chronic low back pain. | Great news for all of you taking coumadin for atrial fibrillation. new FDA approved drug that can replace coumadin is called PRADAXA. go online and check it out. THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | M | 60 | 10 months 4mg 1X day | 11/20/2010 | 1 | because I have a pace maker and def | easy bruises | F | 80 | 2 months 0.5 1X day | 11/6/2010 | 1 | PE | Light headedness. Tingling nose. Pins and needles feeling in my head, left arm and leg. Left leg is always hurting. GERD's disease. | The doctors have done blood work, MRI and cat scans of the brain. Can't find anything wrong. I feel like I am going to pass out. Hate the light headedness and pins and needles feeling all over. | F | 39 | 3 months 2.5 MG 1X day | 8/17/2010 | 1 | DVT (left leg) & PE | Increased hair loss, severe severe fatigue and weakness, terrible muscle aches, feel like I have the flu. | The Mayo Clinic and NIH web sites describe some of the less and more severe side-effects of Coumadin. Print these pages and show them to your doctor(s). These organizations recognize what Coumadin can do to people. I want to scream when a doctor tells me my symptoms are not from Coumadin but because I am depressed. This is NOT depression! | F | 41 | 30 days 4 MG 1X day | 7/21/2010 | 1 | Bedridden during hospitalization | Up though 3 weeks post 14 days usage: Swollen backside of tongue (affecting ability to talk), cold sensitive, severe itching, agonizing joint/muscle pain, finger joints had razor blade/glass chard sensations, tremendous fatigue, no grip strength, total body weakness. Taking Coumadin proved to be a gruesome experience. Untill I read this website, I had no clue as to the cause of my suffering and fear. Now, I worry as to how long before these remaining side effects are gone ... | F | 54 | 14 days ? 1X day | 7/11/2010 | 1 | massive pulmonary embolism | can't sleep on my side, shoulder joints hurt, diarreah, memory loss. | So now I live in a recliner because I cannot sleep on my side more than a few minutes, not much sex in my recliner either! My knees, shoulders and hips hurt so bad I cannot walk around the block to help get healthy again. So cranky the dog avoids me. I could shoot crap thru a screen door. Started eating pain pills like a fiend, that has to be good for me. One more month, then I throw these things away. I will try nattokinase, but I can't handle coumadin. Let the Lord take me home if that is the only cure for my clots. I can't do my yardwork, so she does, that just aint right. Doctor insists these aren't side effects, but I never had a dang thing wrong until this. | M | 54 | 5 months 2.5 1X day | 6/11/2010 | 1 | DVT | Anxiety and depression are beyond my limits. Confusion, frustration, impaired speech, fuzzy vision, lack of thought and clarity. | Never thought I'd post on one of these types of discussion boards but have nowhere to go. The depression has taken me to zero, absolute zero. I had such a strong personality and now I can barely look someone in the eye. I can't even type what I'd like to say it's so bad. Sorry to whine. I wish the very best to everyone and pray no one endures these types of side effects. | M | 42 | 29 days 8 MG 1X day | 5/17/2010 | 1 | DVT - Caused by Birth Control Pills | This is a follow up. Please see my post from 3/3/2010 for a full description of the side effects I experienced. | I first posted on 3/3/2010 about my horrible experience with this drug. As stated I stopped immediately a month early cause I could not take it anymore. Now it's been nearly 6 weeks later and I'm thrilled to report that I have my life back! After looking into this med more, I'm fairly convinced that it can somehow affect your thyroid. (This is just my opinion.) While I started improving immediately after stopping the med, it was a bit slow going until I started taking a natural supplement called "Thyroid Energy." The kind I take is from Now Foods but I'd think any natural Thyroid booster might help. It's been great! I've lost 10 pounds so far without trying, I have energy, I can FOCUS and I'm no longer losing hair. My business is slowly but surely back on track. I wonder if being on a natural Thyroid booster while on the med would have off set some of the side effects. I don't know, but it may be worth looking into for those of you still on this med and experiencing similar problems. However definitely talk to your doctor first as even natural supplements can be very potent! Best of luck to everyone on this stuff and by all means look into amino acids and supplements that might help, then talk to your doctor FIRST to make sure he thinks it's safe for you before taking anything. | F | 30 | 5 months 10 MG 1X day | 4/18/2010 | 1 | Blood clot in left femoral artery | Extreme nausea, dry heaves, exhaustion to the extend that I can barely stand up. Anxiety and depression. Shortness of breath.Chills and headaches, muscle spasms | Doctor says these cannot be side effects. However, I say the drs should have to take this stuff for a week and then maybe they'll change their tune. I need to be on this for at least 3 months, which I know many of you are on this for longer, but the side effects are wicked. | F | 50 | 11 days 5 MG 1X day | 4/4/2010 Patient History | 1 | DVT | Exhausting fatigue, weight gain (17 1bs), mood swings, anxiety, depression, inability to focus, moderate hair loss with increased graying, SEVERE loss of motivation, increased mistakes, can't think, and now getting to where I can't even function. | My DVT was attributed to birth control pills. The first couple months was okay, but I noticed I was slowly gaining weight. So I increased my workout to a full hour a day and improved my diet, but even after 3 months this has done jack. Hair loss, mood swings, depression & fatigue were very soon to follow, which to me was way worse than dealing with weight gain. I run a business and sure enough, my reports show a strong, steady decline in my production and a large increase in errors since I started this stuff, but especially the past 3 months. This past (5th) month has been the worst. I cannot continue like this. I was supposed to be on it for another month but I'm not taking one more dose, and my Dr is just going to have to deal. I was a good girl for 5 months and I'd rather risk it than go for that 6 month safety net. It's either this or lose my business. Yes, the mental effects are THAT BAD for me. I feel so bad for the lifers!! Hang in there, surely something better will come out in the near future! | F | 30 | 5 months 10 1X day | 3/3/2010 | 1 | occasional heart palpitations | I had palpitations 20 years ago. Having heard bad things about Coumadin, I resisted, but a Cardiologist insisted I take coumadin, also called Warfarin. He scared me I could get a stroke. I got weaker and weaker. None of the doctors could figure it out. Finally my husband called the ambulance, as I could not go the steps myself and took me to the hospital. They found I was very anemic and gave me 3 units of blood right away, 2 more units later. I had to swallow a camera and they saw a bleeding ulcer in my stomach. That is where I was losing the blood. All doctors repeated over and over: "No more Coumadin". I had to stay in the hospital 4 days until I regained 70% of my strength. If you ask me I recommend take that poison off the market. | I would have died from bleeding, if not gone to the hospital. It crossed my mind: The push on Coumadin everywhere, do the doctors get a kickback? I don't know, but I wonder. | F | 82 | 60 days | 1/30/2010 | 1 | atreal fib | breising cold feet and cold all over | M | 76 | 3 months | 12/15/2009 | 1 | Bi-laterral pulmunary embolism | very severe headaches, anxiety to the point I did not want to leave the house, depression, lack of total concentration from WARFARIN had to switch to COUMADIN | I developed a blot clot as the result of wearing a leg cast Sept. 28th. One week after being put on warfarin the headaches started. I asked if it was from the warfarin and the Dr. said not likely. Then all of the other syptoms started and I was put on all different kinds of meds to help (so they thought). The Drs where being very good about it , we live in a small town and the Drs all discussed my condition quite often. Finally after 6 weeks I could not go on any longer, I was losing my mind. I went to see my Dr and begged her for some other alternative to warfarin because I will never make it through the holidays. One of the Coumadin nurses sugested we switch to Coumadin from warfarin. I started the Friday after Thanksgiving and within ONE week I was back to my self again. Well 80%. The funny thing was just because the Drs never heard of someone having these problems on warfarin before, it was like it just doesn't happen! | F | 48 | 59 days | 12/12/2009 | 1 | Mitro Valve Replacement | Depression, No energy, Bruise to easy, Gums bleed when level to high, and clots in kidney and bladder. | I've been on coumadin since dec of 96. That is when I had a mitro valve replacement. What was suppose to be a fairly routine surgery turned into a 13 hr surgery. Long story short, 2 open heart operations, lungs collapsed twice, respirator twice and I coded 3 times, Once on the table and 2 times in room. I have been on this rat poison for to long. I have 2 incidents where my bladder was filling up with clots. Energy is gone, And everytime I ask my doctor why they cant level off my coumadin, he says he is not sure, I wonder sometimes if it is even worth taking. | M | 31 | 13 years | 12/8/2009 | 1 | atrial fib | Tiredness, trips and cost to have Dr monitor, weight gain, no salads or grapefruit | Research needed to find a substitute. Everyone knows that it is rat poison in a reduced dose! | M | 73 | 3 years | 8/5/2009 | 1 | confusion. joint pain dizzy frequently. When I told the doctor he said (via a call from his nurse)that it was not possible that coumadin could be causing this. Today, fathers day, I quit taking coumadin and changed my doctor. I know my body better than any doctor. Quality of life is very important to me; I don't need any doctor essentially telling me "its in your head." As far as I am concerned; he is the jerk, not me! | M | 78 | 4 months | 6/21/2009 | 1 | pacemaker | I am writing this for my mother. She is now is now in a rehab facility after falling and hitting her head. She had a hemorraghic stroke and ischemic. Coumadin levels high. Best guess is that the coumadin caused the hemorraghic stroke, which caused her to fall, hit her head and further cause an ischemic stroke. She is very confused, has a major concussion. She complained up to to this point of extreme fatigue, loss of hair, dry skin. Her life had been reduced to sleeping while on coumadin | We really hope she survives. We do not know if she will ever go back to her normal, very active life. She is now nearly blind from the location of the stroke. | F | 87 | 2 years | 5/21/2009 |