Life on warfarin

Hi Gary, you've been on Warfarin for quite some time now. Yes, I have. It's for the blood clotting in your heart, isn't it? It is, for the lower ventricle thrombus, yes. How do you cope with having to take Warfarin? I'm coping now with it fine, because I've been taking it for a number of years. However, it's a complicated drug to take, particularly if you're taking other medications for other things, because they can counterbalance each other or have a knock-on effect. And I've noticed that in the initial stages of work, you have to take Warfarin at exactly the same time each day. So unlike a lot of other medications where you can have a couple of hours leeway, it's preferable or it's beneficial to take it. So I tend to be influenced by an alarm, that I have set on my mobile phone, which reminds me that that is the time I need to take it. And I carry it with me everywhere I go. You know, my next dosage, so I'm not without because I realise it can alter the reading, my INR reading, if I take it at a rapid time. The problem is taking it with other medication as well it doesn't maintain a balance of INR, so I'm regularly attending, sometimes once a week and then I might get a break of a couple of months, attending an anticoagulant clinic to check that the level is right or not. But I'm used to taking it now and I've found I can adapt all my life to it. But it is an awkward road to take and there's a lot of others.