After a very bad AF attack ended up in hospital and diagnosed with a mini stroke

[Johnw]

After a very bad AF attack ended up in hospital and diagnosed with a mini stroke now prescribed pradaxa anti coagulant has any body been prescribed this drug.

[Beancounter Volunteer]

Hi John

There are a number of people on the forum taking pradaxa, it's one of the newer anti-coagulants with the advantages over warfarin being that you do not need blood tests and there are no dietary restrictions.

Against this, if you were to have a thankfully rare "bleed" which can happen on all anti-coagulants, then there is no drug which reverses the effect of pradaxa unlike warfarin, however the half life of pradaxa is around 12-14 hours, so within a day it's down to 25% of it's effect.

I think the new anti-coagulants are really impressive, but I am still on warfarin, I would say nothing to worry about

Take care

Ian

[dbparsons in reply to Beancounter]

As somebody that travels around the world I take Pradaxar, it gives you a lot more flexibility and I am quite happy with it.

You will have to see how you get on with it, good luck