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 |
| 2 | DVT, 2 genes that cause bloodclots | It makes me so tired and puny. I constantly fall asleep, even in public. My hair falls out in clumps. I'm always cold. If I have one drink I feel like throwing up. I get nauseous very easily. | I'm stunned that this many people have the same side effects, but none of them are listed. Warfarin sodium is the same thing in rat poison. I feel like I'm poisoning myself with this stuff. I'm only 25 and they want me to take this for the rest of my life? No thank you! | F | 25 | 2 years | 12/5/2007 | 2 | PE(left lung)5 DVT(2 arm n 3 leg) | EXTREMELY TIRED,MUSCLE AND JOINT PAINS,SHORTNESS OF BREATH,LACK OF SLEEP,GAIN WEIGHT,MEMORY LOSS,HARD TO CONCENTRATE,SEVERE HEADACHES | I STARTED COUMADIN WHEN I WAS 17..I DIDNT KNOW WHAT I WAS FEELING WAS BEING CAUSED BY THE MEDICINE..I KEEP GAININ WEIGHT FOR NO REASON...DIAGNOSED WITH FACTOR V AND LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT AND WILL HAVE TO TAKE IT FOR LIFE...THE LAST DVT ON MY ARM WAS ACTUALLY WHILE MY LEVELS WERE 4.7.....SO CONFUSED AND DEPRESSED I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO.... | F | 19 | 2 years | 5/8/2009 | 2 | Multiple PE's in both lungs | FATIGUE, Weight gain (15 lbs), bruising, depression, chest pains, horrible periods, cold hands and feet. | I am so tired of being on this medicine. No one can tell me anything about my PE's. No blood clot source could be found, no factors in my blood. I am known to my doctors as one of those "freak of nature things" that happen to patients sometimes. I was on birth control when this happened. Thats it. No injuries, vacations, etc. They can't even tell me if I have to be on this for life. Shouldn't something this serious come with some sort of an explanation???? I have visited over 5 doctors, included specialists. They all say the same thing. Ugh. Anyone with feedback, please feel free to email me. Thx | F | 24 | 2 years | 5/15/2006 | 2 | Pulmonary Embolism | Thinning,dry brittle hair. Weight gain (15 lbs). Decreased tolerance to cold and heat. | Is there anything I can do for the thinning dry brittle hair???? I'm afraid I'm going bald. | F | 42 | 2 years | 8/1/2006 | 2 | aftrial fibrillation | I just entered my comments on taking coumadin, and where I thought I put the length of time as over 2 years, it came up "2 days." Also, I neglected to mention that I have experienced hair loss. | F | 70 | 2 years | 1/26/2006 | 1 | Aortic Valve Replacement | Weight Gain, Shortness of Breath, Left arm numbness, fatique, chest pressure, horseness of my voice, muscle spasms on left side of my neck. Heavy menstrual periods with huge clots. | F | 48 | 2 years | 6/29/2005 | 1 | Aortic Valve Replacement | Weight Gain, Shortness of Breath, Left arm numbness, fatique, chest pressure, horseness of my voice, muscle spasms on left side of my neck. Heavy menstrual periods with huge clots. | It has been 2 yrs & my INR still isn't regulated, in 2 yrs I have been able to go twice (30) days before checking INR, still having TIA's & my now have a blood clot on valve as INR isn't regulated. I hate taking this drug but I will have to stay on it the rest of my life, guess I should be glad that its available & is keeping me alive. | F | 48 | 2 years | 6/29/2005 | 1 | afib | joint aches, cold, weight gain, tired. I know it is the rat poison because I reduce the amount I take and all the symptoms disappear. Worst drug ever. | M | 59 | 2 years | 6/29/2006 | 1 | Atrial Fib & blocked heart arteries | Head rushes when getting up from sitting position or driving, mild headaches, back pain from below the left kidney area radiating up to the shoulder blades and down left leg, unable to sleep, wake up repeatedly when sleep finally comes, anxious and angry all the time. | Again the doctor(s) all say that Coumadin (Warfarin) is not to blame. Just like Lipitor doesn't cause memory loss or leg pain. But, since I have been off Lipitor those symptoms have gone away. I hope that I will not have to be on this "Rat Poison" much longer. | M | 66 | 2 years | 3/23/2007 | 1 | DVT (right leg) | While taking coumadin I experienced mood changes, my body is always very sore, my feet and hands are always ice cold, I also have trouble sleeping, but when I do get to sleep it is hard for me to wake me up. | F | 21 | 2 years 7.5 | 3/27/2013 | 1 | mechanical AVR | my brother had fatigue, weakness for last 3 months, progressive worsening headaches for 1 week, INR at 4.5 that day and went to cardiologist in the morning who said everything was OK had a cerebral bleed that night and died!! | M | 59 | 2 years 10 1X day | 11/23/2011 | 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 | A Fib | Easily gained a lot of weight (though I work out every day), itchy skin, general weakness and body achnes, daily joint and chest pains, indigestion, moodiness, lack of sec drive, nosebleeds...you name it. | Going off coumadin has been a lifesaver. I now take pradaxa (only a week) and my symptoms have virtually disappeared. I feel like a new person. Coumadin was the worst drug I have ever encountered. | M | 51 | 2 years 5mg 1X day | 3/26/2011 | 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 | 1 | Ext. DVT ankle-upr.illiack vien | Loss of sex drive/libido, loss of appetite, memory loss, severe fatigue/tiredness, severe irritability, periods of anxiety and depression, headaches, extreme acid reflux, mood swings, wieght fluctuation, cold feet, sensitive to temperature ie hot then cold etc, sweating at night, wierd dreams, cant get a good nights sleep, assortment of aches and pains that come and go. | I was diagnosed with extreme dvt in my left leg going from my ankle to my upper illiacc vien (near belly button) in 2006. Right after I was put on coumadin. Ever since I have not been myself and thought I was crazy or it was all in my head. I went to my doctor many times to get the same response (stress/depression/all in your head). Funny I never had these symptoms before taking coumadin. I just stumbled acrfoss this site today and it has changed my life. A huge wieght has been lifted off me - IM NOT CRAZY IT WASNT ME AND ITS NOT ALL IN MY HEAD. I would love to talk to anyone that is also going through this. Im going to my doctor to get off this poison. I would rather stop this drug and chance dying because this isnt living I feel halfway dead. Seeing this site has changed my life | M | 26 | 2 years | 4/30/2008 | 4 | What they call Lupus Coagulation | Since taking Warafin I have had more headaches than I ever had,I am always cold, I have a back ache and hip ache on a daily basis even though I am under a doctors care for this. I have what I call a brain fog, memory loss,blurred vision, fatigue and feeling like I have no energy on a daily basis. | My doctor wants me to stay at 2.5 becuase I have to high of a clotting factor.I either take Warafin and deal with it or take a chance of getting a blood clot and possibly dying. | F | 42 | 2.5 years 5MG 1X day | 6/2/2010 | 4 | Metal heart valve | some bleeding but not alot. fluctuating INR | can't wait till they develop a blood thinner that is easier to control | M | 59 | 2.5 years 12.5 1X day | 6/19/2010 | 3 | Two clots in leg, one in brain | Weight gain, heavy periods, mood swings | I don't know if my dissatisfaction is due to the drug or the simple fact that I am chained to it by my blood clotting condition. My first episode was caused by birth control pills and the second two by pregnancy. I was even on heprin and then lovenox during the pregnancy. | F | 31 | 2.5 years | 3/15/2008 | 3 | DVT - double PE | Weight gain, lethargy, blurry vision in the morning | I had a venous thrombolysis to remove a 2 foot petrified blood clot. Was in the ICU for 5 days. Two weeks later I clotted again and they repeated the procedure and put in 18 inches of stents in the artery. I am on 12.5 mg but they have trouble keeping me theraputic. One week I am at 1.5 PT/INR and the next week in the ER getting a brain CT because the INR is so high. I put up with the drug because I kind of like living. I still fly and ride the harley and do other nonsensical stuff. | M | 55 | 2.5 years | 7/2/2009 | 1 | DVT from trauma, Protein S | Occasional PT/INR checks lower than normal. Unable to control bleeding from "everyday injuries". As a firefighter, this is incompatible with my career. | M | 46 | 2.5 years 10 1X day | 1/14/2014 |