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Xeralto-for blood clotting- MAY not have the spectrum of efficacy that would be presumed

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Xeralto MAY not have the spectrum of efficacy that would be presumed

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Xeralto MAY not have the spectrum of efficacy that would be presumed


I went from Coumadin to Xarelto in January 2021 for the presumed latitude of benefits. I resumed my consumption of green leafy vegetables for their ruffage/anti-constipation value. Also, I’ve been doing low-impact aerobics for at least 75 minutes every day.



This past Thursday in the 3o’clock hour in mid-80’s heat, I was dragging branches across a mowed field for 120 yards to the curb. On the second trip I felt weakness in my legs from what was a bulky but NOT a heavy load.



Despite having had 16 oz. container of water with a sandwich 30 minutes before, I experienced wobbliness after dropping the load at the curb. I became so wobbly that I sat down and then had to lay down to moderate the onset of dizziness (as an ex-medic, I should have had my legs elevated on the nearby bushes, but didn’t in the stress of the moment.





A contractor/friend who had been planting a tree for me in the area where I had taken the branches happened to drive to the area where I heard, spotted, and called out to him. He saw my condition and assisted me back inside. I lay in my bed for a bit, catching my returning breath before going to get more water to drink for what I supposed was to cure what I assumed was the heat exhaustion, though I hadn’t been exerting enough sweat when I was dragging the branches to the curb.



Because I’d been told of the better efficacy of Xarelto over Coumadin, I didn’t think this episode had anything to do with the acute PE/DVT’s I was diagnosed for in June 2011, which originally put me on Coumadin. When I saw that even when I was able to rise 30 minutes after the event, I had to use props as canes to support me to go out the 30 to 40 yards to view the newly planted tree.



It wasn’t until after 5pm-over an hour after the event-for me to feel stable enough to go take a shower. An hour later after 6pm when getting ready to go out to an event, I was still feeling the echoes of the weakness of 2-hours prior.



While at the event, my subconscious memory came up with the similarities of this event to the symptoms I’d had prior to the June 2011 acute episode that had me going to the ER, where the triage nurse guessed the diagnosis of my condition. Her diagnosis explained my lower kinesiological performance when just walking to doing recreational sports when I became fatigued to breathless to dizzy.



If these recent symptoms prove clinically to indicate a return of the higher clotting factor due to the absence of the S-enzyme in my physiology, then the Xeralto doesn’t have the spectrum of effectiveness one would expect and needs supplemental checks on the blood for advanced clotting as was done when taking Coumadin.



Clot-prone BadDoggieRenegade

Hampton VA