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Tag: Bleeding

  • Heavy Menstrual Bleeds on Blood Thinners – What to Do?

    Evaluation Warfarin (coumadin®, Janotven®) and other blood thinners often increase the amount of bleeding during menses and sometimes the number of days that a woman bleeds.  However, this does not happen in everyone – in some women there is no change in the bleeding pattern.  In general, the more vaginal bleeding a woman has, the…

  • Vitamin E – Caution: Bleeding Risk

    Summary A recent summary of all published good quality trials (randomized, placebo-controlled) shows that taking vitamin E supplements slightly increases a person’s risk for bleeding into the brain (reference 1). My conclusions:  (a) I caution against the use of daily vitamin E supplementation, and (b) I advise against the use of vitamin E in patients who are already…