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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR COUMADIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Multiple PE in both lungs | I definantly get colder now, awful anxiety,cannot fall asleep at night without my heart pounding, bloated, stomach pain,tired, bruising bruising oh did I say BRUISING! | I feel Soooo lucky to be alive that I cannot complain. I have the lupus anticoagulant gene I now know and was taking birth control pills and smoked for 7 months, it almost killed me. I'm nervous about having children but I hope I can one day:) | F | 33 | 7 weeks | 9/30/2005 | 5 | Stroke | I am really not experiencing any side effects. I notice that I am a little more "cold natured", but nothing really bothersome or even hardly worth mentioning. I take 5 mg, except 3 days a week Monday, Wed, and Thursday, I take 7.5 mg. Level was stabilized within 4-5 weeks. | I don't take any meds that would interact with the Coumadin/Warfarin, so maybe that helps a lot. I was also in great health before my stroke...was not considered an "at risk" person for stroke. I was taking birth control pills and have PFO (discovered after stroke) so maybe one or the other played a role???????????? | F | 38 | 7 weeks | 9/22/2006 | 4 | Bilateral PE, DVT, Protein C issues | Major hair loss!! Everyday it comes out in gobbs and gobbs. Fingers and toes always cold. Slight weight gain, some depression sometimes (due more to everything that has happened). Some bruising | They keep uping my dosage and my levels keep falling. Now on 7.5 a day and hopefully this week's test will be normal. I am on this for life, so far things are going well- | F | 31 | 7 weeks | 1/5/2006 | 3 | APS,MTHFR.Protein S deff. | Hair loss,headache,I cant lose weight,ditzy,tired. I have to be on it for life.taking 10 mg mon-fri. and then 11mg sat & Sun. I want to find a way not to take this drug. With three blood disorders it is hard. The Dr. wants me to be thin I just had a baby 8 weeks ago and need to lose the weight . What does everyone do for birth control? Please e-mail me any suggestions with the weight thing...... | F | 35 | 7 weeks | 3/8/2006 | 3 | Dissected Vertebral Artery | Dizziness, fatigue, nausea, metallic taste, immediate weight gain (5 lbs), some hair loss, skin break-outs. Dr. claimed that drug doesn't cause weight gain, but I've never gained weight like this in my life (and so fast!) - there's been no change in diet or activity level to attribute it to -- I know it's the drug. | I appreciate its anticoagulation effects, of course, so it's hard to complain - but here I go: the side effects are very unpleasant. | F | 38 | 7 weeks | 6/3/2007 | 3 | 9cm iliac DVT & multiple, bi-lat PE | Nausea, headaches, itchy scalp, gum bleeding, thirsty and poor sleeping. However, I had to go off the OC pill and was put on implanon, which has its own treasure of hideous side effects - so not sure what's causing what [insert frustration!]. The headaches are my biggest concern. | I just feel terrible. I look well on the outside, but my sides are not happy. Hopefully the haematologist takes me off the warfarin in December 2008. I have just started walking for exercise as I have been going nutty with my inability to run/swim (previously young, fit and healthy!). Does anyone know if you can still get clots while on coumadin (assuming stable INR?)? Has anyone experienced the headaches lessening? Ps: being a vegetarian on warfarin is a nightmare - green veggies!! | F | 27 | 7 weeks | 7/13/2008 | 1 | Blood clots | My left shoulder often hurts, the same spot I originally had the clot. My feet swell back and fourth..never both at the same time.My leg starts to hurt often leading down to certain areas of my foot. this is every day. I wake up with a Different body part aching. Impossible to lose weight being that that I started the medication the day I delevered my youngest daughter. head aches. I hate the fact that i have to get my blood level checked twice a week..and it is never consistant even though I take the medicine as directed.... | I don't recomend it, it follows with tons of blood work, and plenty of reoccuring dr. visits. | F | 22 | 7 weeks | 8/1/2007 | 1 | Atrial Fabrilation | Weight gain, lightheaded | I am healed so i am off from coumadin 3 days ago. I wanted to share these. I change my diet, like Bill clinton did. Went unto vegetarian. Most of all, i pray and believe for God healing. I was healed without the medication. You could check with your doctor how changing your diet could reverse your sickness. Do not change your diet without first consult with your doctor. My doctor was impress that my body headed itself. | F | 7 weeks 3mg 1X day | 4/4/2012 | 4 | dvt developed after hormone course | I developed dvt following a course of hormone treatment prescribed to help with severe menoragghia. The warfarin obviously has an effect on the heavy bleeding I experience due to the existing condition. Side effects include, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, severely itchy scalp, and ears. Hair coming out. Dry patches of skin on areas of body. Bruising very easily. Fatigue and deppression. | No point moaning about it. The effects of taking it can't be any worse than risking not taking and allowing a potentially life-threatening clot to do it's nasty business. | F | 43 | 8 weeks | 11/16/2007 | 2 | Clot at base of my brain | Depression-severe; loss of appetite, but gain in weight; muscle pain all over; hot and cold; feet and hands numb and cold; insomnia; anxiety | F | 52 | 8 weeks | 8/18/2006 | 4 | DVT/May-Thurners syndrome | HAIR LOSS!! My hair is getting incredibly thin. | Its doing its job although I can't get my levels stabilized. Don't know how long I have to be on it. I hope to get off it and wonder if my hair will start filling in after I stop taking Coumadin. Anyone know about how soon after I stop taking it, or even if hair will grow back?? | F | 26 | 10 weeks | 6/22/2007 | 3 | Blood clot after port-a-catheter | Main concern is the rapid weight gain...12 lbs in 10 weeks. No other side effects. Am a breast cancer patient with bone metastasis. Believe it or not my main "side effect" is this weight gain only since starting on Warfarin (Coumadin). Cannot exercise much and diet is limited without salads...what's one to do???? | M | 60 | 10 weeks | 6/26/2007 | 3 | Unprojected Pulmonary Embolism | Weight gain, sluggishness and lower stamina, lapses of memory, aftertaste in mouth in morning, feeling cold at times and numbness in feet(more pronounced in right foot). | Going into the 3rd month of standard 6 month treatment for PE. INR has stayed low (1.4-1.5) tell 5 days ago when it finally checked in at therapeutic level of 2.7. I have tried to exercise more intensely to loose some weight with goal of loosing 15 pounds. Instead have gained about 10. I would hope to get off after 6 months, but with no known cause for my blood clot might have to become a lifer. | M | 65 | 10 weeks 10 MG 1X day | 3/10/2012 | 3 | blood clot after surgery/left calf | can't seem to get my PT/INR under control. supposed to be between 2-3 and it drops to 1.2-1.4 finally got it up to 2.1 for two days straight. menstrual cycle is EXTREMELY heavy, stomach bloating, weight gain. hopefully only on for 3 months. | F | 41 | 10 weeks 9mg 1X day | 7/29/2011 | 4 | Multiple P.E's left lung | Weight gain, very tired, depression, anxiety | My body doesn't seem to react well to the coumadin. I am currently taking 17.5 mg each day and my INR levels continue to decline. I'm not sure if the side effects are from the medicine or the lack of green vegetables and vitamin supplements. I got my P.E. from birth control pills and nobody can tell me where the clots came from. It didn't start from a dvt in my leg or anywhere. I didn't recently have surgery, an injury, or travel for a long period of time. So strange! | F | 25 | 11 weeks | 3/12/2007 | 2 | DVT/PE | extreme, extreme fatigue, muscle spasms (in areas where there are no clots), cold chills, hot flushing, flu-like symptoms all the time, sharp pains in various parts of body, low back pain, panic attacks, dizzy/lightheaded (almost passing out),night sweats, abdominal cramps, diarhhea, rashes, tingly/numb skin, heart palpitations, extreme muscle strength decrease, extreme cold skin at times | I currently take 4MG per day, the highest dose I have ever taken was 7.5MG. My INR has never tested too high, and only tested too low when I was first being treated. I have been treated with both brand name Warfarin and Generic. I have no other significant medical issues, and no clotting disorders. My clots were attributed to birth control pills. Heparin injections are what stabilized my blood clots, not Warfarin, and Warfarin doesn't make the clots dissolve, it only picks up where Heparin left off and keeps your blood slick enough to prevent the clots you have from getting bigger, or from forming new ones. So no I am not satisfied that given the number of incidents of DVT/PE per year, they haven't found a better way to treat these conditions since the discovery of this medication (which was what, in 1930 or 40?) and that they blatantly refuse to accept that this medication does indeed have grossly uncomfortable side effects and its users are not "crazy". Don't kid yourself people this stuff is potent. It was accidentally discovered when farmers cattle were being found dead from consuming the plant it is derived from. Regardless of what the doctors and pharmacists have to say, I know that my symptoms will go away when I get off this medication. | F | 34 | 11 weeks | 11/28/2009 | 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 | 3 | DVT - caused by a broken foot | -EXCESSIVE FATIGUE - I SLEEP FROM 9PM - 6.30AM - THEN BACK TO BED AT 7.30 UNTIL 12 NOON. STILL NEVER FEELS LIKE ENOUGH. -MOODY- I HAVE TURNED INTO A MEGA B! I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE SWEET, EASY TO GET ALONG WITH TYPE GIRL, BUT LATELY, I HAVE HAD AN AWFUL PERSONALITY. MY HUSBAND HAS CALLED ME OUT ON IT MORE TIMES I CARE TO COUNT. HE WILL BE THE 1ST TO SAY THAT I AM NOT ACTLING MYSELF. I HAVE BECOME VERY SHORT TEMPERED. -LOSS OF HAIR - CLEANING THE SHOWER DRAINS EVERY MORNING. SEEMS LIKE I SHOULD BE BALD BY NOW! -HEADACHES - SEVERE. SOMETIMES SO SEVERE I QUESTION WETHER OR NOT TO GO TO THE ER. TYLONOL DOES NOTHING FOR MY HEADACHES. LOSS OF ENERGY- I SIT AND I LOOK AROUND MY HOUSE. I WANT TO GET UP AND CLEAN, BUT I JUST SIT. I CAN'T SEEM TO GET ANY TYPE OF ENERGY TO DO ANYTHING. FORGETFULNESS- I CAN BE IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVERSATION AND COMPLETELY FORGET WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. ANY TYPE OF DISTRACTION WILL KNOCK ME OFF TOPIC. ALSO, WHILE WRITTING/TYPING, I WILL KNOW WHAT | OVER ALL I HATE THIS MEDICINE. I HATE THE PERSON IT HAS TURNED ME INTO, BUT I AM ALIVE SO I WILL GLADLY TAKE THIS MEDICINE IN RETURN FOR MY LIFE. | F | 28 | 20 weeks 15 MG 1X day | 9/7/2011 | 4 | DVT after rt knee scoped | Have experience many of the side effects posted by others. Fatigue, loss focus/memory loss - feel a little more stupid at times, cold (must wear heavy coat and hat in the house most evenings after returning home from work), night sweats, weakness, hair loss. Suprised that I have not experienced much bruising. However, I am cautious around sharp things! | I think the Doctor who posted earlier has a point about fatigue, weakness and weight gain. I was very physically active before the knee surgery and have been advised to not yet return to conditioning training/weight lifting, etc. Meanwhie, because of delay to physical therapy due to clots, I am far behind on recovery. Knee procedure required far more than originally scheduled and the scarring is making procress difficult. Ultimately, I am not as active and that has impacted my physical and mental well being. I am hoping to be cleared in a couple of months and get off of this stuff. I'm pretty frustrated by minor gains, having expected to be fully active by now... Good luck to all. | M | 53 | 1 months 5 & 2.5 MG 1X day | 1/22/2011 | 4 | Hip Surgery | Ungodly heavy period. I only took the drug for a month, and that was my only complaint. However, my fingernails that are growing out now from when I took the coumadin are extremely brittle and flaking down to the quick. | F | 36 | 1 months 15mg 1X day | 4/26/2010 |