This is amzing stuff. I’m on Coumadin because I had a heart attack while I was in the VAMC in 09. They did a pre-op physical on me to make sure I was good to go for surgery to take down my ileostomy diversion and reconnect my small bowel to the large. The EEG dude says( and he talks like this) “Dude. You have had a serious heart bummer since your last EEG . That’s bogus. We did this last Oct. 15th  and it sure didn’t look like this. Hmm. You feel okay?” I assured him I did and asked if this would change their plans to operate. He assured me it wouldn’t. When I finally got my records several months later, it said myoicardial infarction or possibly a septal infarction during the peritonitis with a mega T wave abnormality, etc.

Lately my ALT number (also called SGPT) has been climbing which is not good. The last time this happened was after my first dose of Interferon. It went up to 635.  Mine’s up and down but staying  around 300. While surfing for liver/Coumadin connections on Google I hit on some articles which deal with this. Most amzing stuff. Perhaps this is why I’m avoiding the liver disaster of cirrhosis. It’s short and a good read:

http://www.hcvanonymous.com/SMF/index.php?topic=8963.0

And this:

http://www.hepatitis-central.com/mt/archives/2008/08/popular_blood_t.html