After more than ten years of it, I may this evening have taken my last dose of warfarin, presently consisting on Saturday's of one blue pill and two brown pills. The plan is to switch over tomorrow, at the start of the pill box week, to Edoxaban branded as Lixiana. One yellow pill of 60mg a day and a blood test once in a while - a simple regime which replaces the rather more complicated warfarin regime, which last is unfortunately subject to the vagaries of warfarin uptake and metabolism, with relevant levels in the blood prone to strange - and potentially dangerous - variations.
We shall see how I get on.
PS 1: the parent company is clearly Japanese. But I have no idea where this particular drug came from or where it is made. I dare say I could find out.
PS 2: the stuff appears to be sold all over the place, in lots of slightly different packages. My package is not the one snapped above, but this snap does show off the colour coding of the new pills, in which respect they are the same as warfarin pills, which are also colour coded.
References
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiichi_Sankyo.
Reference 2: https://www.daiichisankyo.com/.
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