My mother, 70 years old, been on Coumadin for 3 years (doctor sa...

I am so sorry to hear about your mother.
I have been looking on line to find information about this drug because my friend's young daughter had a blood clot in her leg and the docs put her on this medicine and she suffered a seizure due to brain bleeding soon after. Then she seemed to be stablilized but a few days ago, had another brain hemorrahage. She is still in intensive care and can move on one side of her body. She tries to repsond to people and is beginning to breath on her own.
What a horrible medication!
From what I am reading, aspirin and fish oils are also good at thinning the blood.
The Food and Drug Administration recently put their Black Box warning label on Coumadin. Why is it on the market?
It's an outrage.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this - hate hate to say - POISON approved by the FDA. I am sorry as well to know of your friend's daughter illness. Just want to add (pardon my lack of knoweldge of Medical terms): since mother had clot in the vein (neck area) - combined with the bleeding in brain - doctors advised low dose Coumadin 2mg only, to dissolve the clot then hopefully stop the med. Anyway, since she had IBS, we done Colonoscopy for her last week - doctors agreed that she come off Coumadin for few days (been now 8 days) - and what a pleasant surprise: she has regained some of her normal thoughts/coherence/mood much better...but still far from normal - but compared to the last 4 months, its BIG change in her attitude/mental state, for us to notice. Doctors are supposed to put her back on Coumadin in coming days, and I am so sad about the whole thing - such a tragedy in our family (we never had Dementia in our family, etc). My mom may go back to suffer, and suffer more. What can one do - stand against conventional Medical wisdom, and be blamed, for life, in the event that something tragic happens and a serious cloting occurs again. I wish there was a way out of this tragic chain of events. Wish one could go back 3 or 2 years back in time, could have halted the drug from making further damage.

I think it should be the duty, absolute duty, of every Coumadin prescribing physician to alert/and forewarn relatives of the patient of the potential adverse effects of this poison on their loved one. Then and only then we could make an informed choice. With no regrets.