Vitamin E for blood thinning?
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:37 pm
At the last doctor visit, we learned that doctors will try to
thin the blood to 2-3 times thinner than that of a normal
person. This just doesn't seem like a good idea to me, and
indeed he has had some issues with bruises not healing up.
I've been asking around about getting off of warfarin
when one's arteries are now completely clear, and
have been told that "Abruptly discontinuing warfarin
may induce a rebound prothrombotic state." I've also been
told that doctors will probably want him to stay on warfarin
just because, since he's had a stroke.
So then I did a search on warfarin dangers, and found this
article about the faulty methods that were used to determine
this 2-3 times blood thinning practice:
Why Is Warfarin Such a Dangerous Drug?
http://www.jwatch.org/oh200806100000001/2008/06/10/why-warfarin-such-dangerous-drug
which talks about how the method they used to determine this
is not scientifically sound.
It is based on this study:
Bleeding in patients receiving vitamin K antagonists who would have been excluded from trials on which the indication for anticoagulation was based
http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/111/9/4471?ijkey=da98ec6b596c78a9f676112bde049%20b31adecc804&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
And then I read this piece on doctoryourself.com:
http://doctoryourself.com/drugalt.html
In which a guy named Bob gets off of warfarin without telling his doctor what he was doing,
by increasing his vitamin E gradually, and gradually getting his warfarin dose reduced.
I think he made the right decision there, but: Since they thin the blood to 2-3 times
normal, and since I don't believe even large doses of vitamin E would cause such
an un-natural result, it seems that it would be impossible to get off it completely,
going purely by doctors orders and PT/INR test results.
I will be researching it: I'm going to get the original book on vitamin E by the
shutes, "heart and Vitamin E." Oh, and the chapter on vitamin E in "Orthomolecular
Medicine For Everyone."
But I'm not sure how to go about this, since vitamin E probabley will not
thin the blood quite that much, and the doctors will want to keep his blood
un-naturally thin.
thin the blood to 2-3 times thinner than that of a normal
person. This just doesn't seem like a good idea to me, and
indeed he has had some issues with bruises not healing up.
I've been asking around about getting off of warfarin
when one's arteries are now completely clear, and
have been told that "Abruptly discontinuing warfarin
may induce a rebound prothrombotic state." I've also been
told that doctors will probably want him to stay on warfarin
just because, since he's had a stroke.
So then I did a search on warfarin dangers, and found this
article about the faulty methods that were used to determine
this 2-3 times blood thinning practice:
Why Is Warfarin Such a Dangerous Drug?
http://www.jwatch.org/oh200806100000001/2008/06/10/why-warfarin-such-dangerous-drug
which talks about how the method they used to determine this
is not scientifically sound.
It is based on this study:
Bleeding in patients receiving vitamin K antagonists who would have been excluded from trials on which the indication for anticoagulation was based
http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/content/111/9/4471?ijkey=da98ec6b596c78a9f676112bde049%20b31adecc804&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
And then I read this piece on doctoryourself.com:
http://doctoryourself.com/drugalt.html
In which a guy named Bob gets off of warfarin without telling his doctor what he was doing,
by increasing his vitamin E gradually, and gradually getting his warfarin dose reduced.
I think he made the right decision there, but: Since they thin the blood to 2-3 times
normal, and since I don't believe even large doses of vitamin E would cause such
an un-natural result, it seems that it would be impossible to get off it completely,
going purely by doctors orders and PT/INR test results.
I will be researching it: I'm going to get the original book on vitamin E by the
shutes, "heart and Vitamin E." Oh, and the chapter on vitamin E in "Orthomolecular
Medicine For Everyone."
But I'm not sure how to go about this, since vitamin E probabley will not
thin the blood quite that much, and the doctors will want to keep his blood
un-naturally thin.