Changing Medications
Yesterday was a bit of a scary day. My hematologist changed my medications the day before, because it’s getting to be the end of my 6 month course of anticoagulants, and he wants to do some final tests to see if I actually have a clotting disorder. Some of those tests can’t be done until I’m off of warfarin (it interferes with the accuracy of the test.) So, I’m injecting Lovenox for the next two weeks. He had one day of overlap with the Lovenox and the warfarin, and OMG, for the first time since I started, I had a bleeding scare.
Not to go into TMI, but I was experiencing bleeding where, let’s put it frankly, you don’t normally bleed. The doctor assured me that this was nothing to worry about now, but if it continued another day, to give them a call. Thankfully, I haven’t had to call them, so I think it’s all OK – but it was still terrifying.
Also, today I had family in town and we went out to Snoqualmie Falls. I didn’t get to hike down to the water with them, though, because of the danger of injury. I’ll be so glad when I don’t have to worry about that!!
Here’s hoping that my next round of tests come up negative!! I don’t want to be on blood thinners for life!
