Can you drink alcohol while taking coumadin

What are the effects of alcohol and coumadin?

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Coumadin (warfarin) Precautions. You should not take acetaminophen (Tylenol), aspirin, or NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) unless your doctor has told you to. NSAIDs include celecoxib (Celebrex), diclofenac (Voltaren), ibuprof…

Can you drink alcohol while taking coumadin?

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Coumadin is a very sensitive drug- that is, it is affected by many outside influences. Ethanol (drinking alcohol), not only increases the risk of stomach bleeding while on coumadin, but it also increases or decreases the metabolism of couma…

CAN I DRINK ALCOHOL WHILE TAKING COUMADIN?

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Drinking alcohol is not recommended while taking coumadin, because it has a profound effect on your Protime/INR and is very risky. If, regardless of the risk, you do choose to have alcoholic beverages while taking coumadin, it is imperative…

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Actual Risk of Coumadin and Alcohol?

Q: I am just trying to get an idea of how serious the warning is of that doctors give about drinking while on Coumadin.For instance is it like “you should never take more 2 advil at a time” type of warning or is as serious as “You should never drink more 20 beers in one sitting.” type of warning? Does anyone get what I am shouting at?

A: You may not realize it, but doctors aren’t kidding you when they say “don’t”. They’ve spent years learning what makes the bod tick right & what can ruin it.Don’t play your own doc. You have only one bod!

Coumadin and alcohol?

Q: I am very confused about whether or not you can drink/or get drunk while on Coumadin. My doctors did not forewarn me about drinking while on Coumadin and its something I think they would have mentioned if it was a serious threat to my health. I am 21 years old and just got my heart valve replaced with a new mechanical valve. I have heard nothing but mixed reviews about drinking while on coumadin. My aunt is on coumadin and she said her doctor said it is fine to drink while on it. (In fact I have seen her get really drunk while on it and nothing obviously happened.) Every nurse I ask says no but, I feel they are always taking the over precautious route. I consulted nursing’s guides to drugs and the three different one I looked at all said something different. One said extreme caution to drinking while on Coumadin, one said try to avoid drinking while on coumadin, and another said avoid alcoholism while on coumadin. I am in College and this operation has changed my life. I have always been a very healthy person and now I am even more healthy than ever. I do not drink every night or even every other night. I drink on the weekends and very very very rarely during the week. I am by no stretch an alcoholic and I having drank to the point of throwing up in about 2 years now. In all honestly I would like to go out and get drunk once in a while. Is this such a bad thing? If it is I would like to here an answer from a medical profession and how risky it actually is.Can anyone give me actual medical texts where people have died or been seriously hurt from drinking while on Coumadin?

A: anything that affects your liver function can also interact with warfarin levels.. esp if your liver is damaged by overdoing the alcohol..drinking moderately is not a problem