[Magdalen] Dental Deal.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Coumadin is probably the safest although it comes with the need to be 
monitored/tested to make sure that your levels are not high - a 'procedure 
of inconvenience'  which is played up by the other drugs that are now 'in 
competition' with it - all touting that they do not need frequent testing. 
Some of them come with deadly baggage - I can speak for one, that is not 
seen advertized lately - Xarelto. It has no antidote to reverse its action 
to dilute the blood SO, if one was on Xarelto and had a bleeding injury, or 
was in need of emergency surgery, there is NO way to reverse the dilute 
nature of the circulatory system and along with the health issue presented 
the patient would also bleed uncontrollably. Coumadin has drug that can 
immediately reverse the diluting effects of the drug.  I was up close and 
personal with such an incident that nearly cost a friend his life. 
Hospitalized again 2 weeks after being discharged following  heart bypass 
surgery, he was found to be 'leaking' blood into his pleural cavity from 
being on the drug too soon following surgery and then the small incision 
made to drain the pleural cavity bled for 8 days while he was in an 
isolation ICU room being transfused around the clock for over 5 days until 
his blood stabilized and could begin to clot. Sometimes the old meds are the 
best meds....

Lynn, just sayin'

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From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:53 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Dental Deal.

> Don't swaller that advertising hype re: Eliquis. I've read that Coumadin's
> cheap and no less effective. Your insurer will have read that, too.
>
> Love the views of the Charles in the commercials, though.
> -M
>
>
> On Sunday, February 28, 2016, Arthur Laurent <ALaurent at npr.org> wrote:
>>
>> I never understand why insurance companies pay what they do for what they
>> choose to cover. I used to take a med which cost them $650 per month ($10
>> copay for me), but they wouldn't pay $450 per month for Eliquis, a blood
>> thinner that probably WON'T kill me any time soon. I can't afford $450 
>> for
>> one med, so I declined to take Eliquis. (It was way beyond what I needed,
>> anyw
>>