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 | 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 | 3 | 2 DVTs/PEs within 8 years no reason | Tired and memory loss.Bruising.Started at age 28 stopped after 6 months but had to start again age 36 for the rest of my life. | At first, I lost weight but gained it back. Had a stomach virus which caused my levels to double. Did the Heparin shots as well while trying to get pregnant but am back to coumadin-adopting now. | F | 38 | 2 years | 5/4/2009 | 4 | 2 nd time clot in leg & Factor V | Bruising,Longer and heaver periods,Skin rash,Dry skin,Problem, concentrating,Trouble sleeping,Sometimes very hot when it is freezing inside and very cold when hot,Joint pain,Itchy scalp,Severe depression, Anxiety,Decreased sexual drive,Night sweats, Huge mood swings with increased irritability Overly fixated on getting ANY kind of injury,Weird dreams/nightmare, Dizzy, Numbness in the toes,Gas and bloating Weakness,Blurred vision, chect pains, Purple toe nails. | This is my 2nd clot and I am a lifer. This time I feel like my life was been twisted upside down. The side effects are driving me crazy and there is nothing I can do to make it better. I just have to keep my head high and try to remember that I am lucky to be alive. | F | 31 | 6 months | 4/28/2009 | 4 | DVT - Knee to hip | weight gain, irritability, stomach/digestive issues | I've been on this for 13 years and will be taking it for the rest of my life. | M | 37 | 13 years | 4/20/2009 | 3 | blood clot | fatigue, bleeding of the gums and frequent menstrual periods, some nausea. | n/a | F | 39 | 2 months | 4/20/2009 | 2 | DVT in right calf | Aches, flu like symptoms, loosing sense of smell and taste. | After about four months on 15mg warfarin a day, I am loosing my sense of taste and smell. No other factors have changed. The anticoagulation clinic I work with does not recognize almost all of the symptoms reported on this website or ones I have reported to them. They also seem very unwilling to consider something other than what they believe to be true. | M | 55 | 5 months | 4/20/2009 | 3 | DVT/PE | I had a dvt/pe in May 2007 and went on coumadin for 6 months. In January 2008, when they took me off it, I felt like a veil of fatigue had been lifted. I knew I had been tired while on coumadin, but it became very evident when I was off it. Unfortunately, I've had another dvt/pe in February 2009 and I am back on coumadin (warfarin, really) It's been 2 months so far this time and I'm feeling tired, I seem to be depressed (although almost dying twice and being off work for 4 weeks could have something to do with that?), I have normal moments and then severe down moments - crying etc. I have some join pain - but I've been stepping up exercise, so that could be from the exercise. | Does anyone have any thoughts as to the differences between coumadin and warfarin? | F | 41 | 2 times | 4/13/2009 | 4 | DVT - Left Calf | Tiredness, easily bruised, nose bleeds, if INR gets too high; I'm starting to have hair loss, and I've always prided myself on having thick healthy hair. | It did save my life. I'm hoping to be removed from coumadin, or having the dosage lowered, when I visit my doctor on 4/14/09. | F | 66 | 1 years | 4/11/2009 | 5 | atrial fibrillation | one month ago I had a spinal stroke and now Im not able to walk. Im paralysed from my waste down. my side effexts where major bruising all over my body. while I was hospitalized I started getting terrible neck and lower back pain after several hoursof bad pain, I realized that I could not feel or move my legs. the nurses assure me that I was stable and later I found out that I had a stroke in my spine my INR levels where higher than 15? not sure how they got that high? please everyone on coumanin get checked and question everything..... My Dr. said everything was normal?Thanks god Bless. I will keep theraphy going and with gods help I will be able to walk again. | now I wander should I stay on coumadin or chance getting another stroke? | M | 64 | 1.5 years | 4/7/2009 | 2 | Bilateral PE | Major weight gain, extreme fatigue, hair loss, numbness, memory loss, severe headaches daily | Although I am happy to still be alive, I'm getting very frustrated with not only the side effects but with my doctor telling me they aren't side effects. Look at this site alone and tell me that we are all just crazy?? I've also been on Cipralex for depression/anxiety and I'm stepping down from that med now to see if it's causing any of the symptoms. I'll let you know in a few weeks. | F | 43 | 7 months | 4/3/2009 | 5 | pulmonary embolism | F | 34 | 7 months | 3/29/2009 | 3 | DVT/PE. FVL & Lupus Anticoagulant | Fatigue, joint pain in hands, heel pain, lack of concentration, leg still partially swollen, increased belly fat. | Initially I was very fatigued, just walking from my front door to my car was exhausting but my dr put it down to my 5 days of bed rest. Some days I have great energy, other days I go walking and have stop to sit down. Joint pain led to further blood tests resulting in a new diagnosis of Factor V Leiden and Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrome so now Warfarin may be a lifetime companion. Would love to hear of any alternative therapy and if anyone else still has swelling. Warfarin did the job of dispursing the clots but I'm wondering if my leg is damaged and what the long term effects might be. | F | 49 | 7 months | 3/29/2009 | 1 | mitral valve replacement | nausea, tired all the time, nighmares,dry itchy skin, hair loss, weight gain, depression, bruising, joint pain, and headaches | I never seemed to have enough air in my lungs to walk anywhere; and believe me I try. I have good days and bad with depression. Lost interest in most things, INR is all over the place at this time why?? same food. Doctors hears complaints but it keeps me alive. I am grateful to be alive after four years of being mis-dignosed and having a blood clot over the diseased valve. had rheumatic fever as a child. Wish there was something else to take! | F | 55 | 3 years | 3/29/2009 | 1 | DVT, leg | severe nausea, diarrhea, headaches, sleep loss, confusion and forgetfulness, "mushy" brain feeling, slurred speech, depression | By the time I reached 15 mg. dosage, I called my doctor, sobbing on the telephone and begged him to take me off this drug. The higher the dosage, the worse my side effects got. The worst part is that the medical profession does not believe this drug causes all these side effects. I am now off of it and taking aspirin instead. | F | 55 | 5 weeks | 3/20/2009 | 4 | DVT - lower leg | Fatigue | I consulted the anti-coagulant clinic about the fatigue and was told this was not a side-effect that they recognised. However, the clinic had over-prescribed my dosage. INR was supposed to be between 2.0 and 3.0. My INR at the time I felt fatigue was 3.62. Once my dosage was reduced and my INR fell below 3.0 the fatigue went away. I suspect an overdose of warfarin causes fatigue and, as overdose is a misuse of the drug, this side-effect does not appear in the list | M | 37 | 3 months | 3/13/2009 | 1 | stroke, coratid artery dissection | this medicine has made me severely depressed. I was told to take a higher dose by my family physician(who did not check my INR on a regular basis} and my INR was 7.0 which caused me to have a retinal hemmorhage. i am now blind in my right eye do to this. this has caused even greater depression. I am confused, and cannot concentrate. I was a different man 4 months ago and feel that this medication is making me worse - if that is possible. I hate this drug and my wife is looking into herbal remadies that may do the same thing without side effects. any reccomendations? | would like to hear any feedbak for any herbal remedies thatcould replace this drug if possible | M | 49 | 4 months | 3/11/2009 | 3 | Clotting disorder due to lupus. APL | Hard to say what are side effects of the drug or symptoms of the lupus. They are very simular. When I first went on it after throwing small venous clots to my fingers, the first thing I noticed was it changed my T3 lab value. My T4 was normal and my T3 climbed to 11. I'm not on cytamel and I'm not hyperthyroid. Fatique has steadily gotten worse but so have my heart valves so not sure cause. The weight gain has been very difficult to take. My weight was stable for several years. After being on coumadin for 6 years now I've gone up 20lbs and it will not budge with dieting at all. My hair fell out after back surgery 18 months ago but has all grown back in. My joints always hurt but I do think they got worse on the coumadin. I'm holding on to the hope that the new drugs in trials will be out soon and we can replace coumadin.......it has too many restrictions and side effects. | Something that struck me when I found this site was the number of people that developed clots after orthopedic surgery. I'm a nurse and we see that here too. I wonder how many patients have underlying clotting diorders or autoimmunity, they do not know about, before they have surgery. So many of the side effects people talk about here are what we with autoimmumity deal with everyday. Any of the Docs on here have a opinion on that? And do you no when the other drugs will be available? It will mean so much to so many to have new anticoag. meds. | F | 54 | 6 years | 3/8/2009 | 1 | stroke,AFIB,PFO | Global weakness and numbness in extremeties,intracranial pressure like hanging upside down on monkey bars and can't get off.Diziness.ligtheadedness. Disabling.Constipation and EXTREME RAPID weight gain. | DON'T TAKE Coumadin or it'll take you!!!! One of the poisonous reactions I've ever had on a medication and cant believe the doc's or pharmaceutical companies don't acknowledge these potential side effects!?#@! Until I found this website everyone was making me feel crazy...like stress was causing my symptoms...or maybe I was overeating due to stress...I in fact have cut my food intake and the weight keeps adding. Just so bad.. Taking myself off of this "wonderdrug". | F | 43 | 3 months | 3/8/2009 | 3 | A/ Fib | Memory loss, leg cramps, feel cold even on a hot day when all others have their jackets off, I'm weating two jackets. 7.5 mg | M | 77 | 2 years | 2/26/2009 | 5 | Atrial fibrillation | Not much really. The worst thing was that I dropped something heavy and sharp on one of my toes and covered half my foot in blood before it coagulated, plus it seemed to take a long time to heal. I understand that toes can be a danger point for some reason. I also do the occasional cutting myself while shaving, although I haven't noticed too much coagulation time if the cut is very small. All-in-all, I haven't really had much in the way of problems. | This medicine works like a charm and as long as I continue having my p-time tested, I feel reasonably certain that I am okay. Having to take it for the rest of my life worries me, though, because I do not know what else is going on "behind the scenes" inside of me. However, unless the atrial fibrillation gets cured (seems unlikely so far), I'd rather take this than have a stroke. | M | 61 | 4 months | 2/21/2009 |