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Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: Mar 3 8:58am | Replies (18)
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Hi @kathiemk I understand a high count of Factor VIII can be a warning sign for blood clots. Since your physicians placed you on Warfarin did they not often do PT/INRs to assess and adjust for the Warfarin dosage? Sorry to hear you had bleeds. I hope the bleeds did not cause any deficits. Are you doing OK now? Was the remedy a vitamin K injection?
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They initially just stopped the Warfarin…my PC doctor was testing/adjusting my Warfarin dosage a lot! Test results were all over the place (later I was informed that this is (blood turning to “water”, then back to “mud” quickly) what happens when you have high (2.4x normal level) factor VIII.
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Fortunately bleeds did not cause any deficits! I am sure it would of though if I was not so persistent in returning 3x to hospital…intense pain, had to crawl to keep head at or below heart…pain so intense, passing out.