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Originally Posted by billethkid
We take fish oil every day. My wife is on warfarin and I am on plavix.
She gets her blood level checked every month....almost 20 years no problem.
Both of our cardiologists are well aware with no commentary. They are more concerned with one eating too many dark green veggies for unplanned blood thinning than they are for fish oil.
Just ask your doctor + do some research and make your own INFORMED decision.
btk
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Interesting post. A cousin has her blood checked very often, as above......so "I hear you".........
She also is super conscious of not eating more than a smidgen of broccoli, dark green veggies, cranberry sauce, etc..........she is on coumadin after her mitral valve replacement surgery.
She's "religious" about what she cannot eat......and they are all healthy foods that she shuns.
I also know many other food stuffs that are blood thinners "naturally" such as ginger, etc., garlic, etc. and even some homeopathic teas.
My husband once got a super scary major nosebleed after consuming a little too much of a certain herbal tea..........with ginger in it....and other herbs.
However, wouldn't it be super easy to just eat the broccoli, etc. than to take a pharmaceutical? A doctor could lay out the proper amounts of the food.........and it would be less expensive than going to the pharmacy for all the various prescriptions.
Our pet peeve is to listen to the evening news commercials put out by the major pharmaceutical companies..........after seeing all the mobility challenged arthritics out there in the limelight swearing by a certain drug, come the LONG LIST of possible complications including lung cancer, blood cancer, you name it cancer.........when all the person had was a form of arthritis. Does anyone else "hear this"........????????
Ditto for the sleep aides.......and other drugs for fibromyalgia, you name it.........the "potential" side effects are worse than the original ailment.
Not to minimize the pain that folks with R.A., osteo arthritis and fibromyalgia feel.........almost everyone up here suffers from one of these.
But we all thank God that it is not cancer. Why take a drug that could compromise the immune system and lead to cancer?
Maybe the retired pharmacist might be able to answer this???? Thankyou.