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Reviewer: bubbyshe@aol.com, 75 or over Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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My Afib is normal now. I have had several occassions of diarhhea and heart burn. If I eat before taking it, it is much better. I stopped taking a lot of fiber food and that has helped my diarhhea a bit.
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Reviewer: PhDBiochem, 65-74 Male on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year
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Serious AF seems to have vanished. Also no INR problems. Hard to tell if other problems cause symptoms - none appear related to this drug. Warfarin ineffective with both INR/AF
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Reviewer: Jason31, 75 or over Male
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I can't stand the side effects of Pradaxa. According to the charts I have a 7% chance over the next 5 years of getting a stroke from a mild A-fib conditioning causing a blood clot. I'll take my chances and not take Praxada and as an added benefit, I won't have to pay an excessive cost for the medication. I'll continue to take 1000 mg of a buffered aspirin every day. The nausea
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Reviewer: clemmens, 75 or over on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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maybe causing me to want to sleep a lot
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Reviewer: deeskipperpgrigl, 75 or over Male on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I am having a tooth extraction tomorrow. I stopped taking my pradaxa today. Anyone else had an experience?
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