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Your INR will probably be up if you like me take 2-3 glasses of wine a day. By the way Coaguchek is the device I´m buying. I have to take a course next week and learn to use it and it cost like I wrote 650 euros here in Sweden.
Hi Ant
Iwalked 2012 and 2013 and checked my INR as I wrote before. Both years I got home after 3 weeks and my levels was high not low. My doctor said that vegetables and walking alot makes INR lower and wine makes it high. My levels should be between 2.0 and 3.0 and after 3 weeks I had 3.8...
I take warfarin and walked last year. The easyest way was private labs , 6 euros and I got the results after 30 minutes. Touristoffices helped me to find labs and make a list. For this years walk Camino de Levante I´m buying a portebal INR reader, 200 grams including everything.
Roger
I remember a time back in year 2000 when I walked my first camino. No internet- no WIFI- people talking in the old way, to each other- a snorer was a snorer (no problem)- no bedbugs. After all this is just a walk from point A to B with a backpack not planning for a trip to the moon, :-)
Thank you very much. The spanishteacher at the school I work on will help me and phone the centros from Sweden before I leave. My spanish isn´t that good :-).I leave 6/6 for Spain and the camino.
Roger from Sweden
Thank you for your answer.
I will walk camino de Madrid - to Shagun-frances to Leon and from there camino del Salvador to Oviedo.I have looked for bigger citys like Seovia, Sahagun ,Leon and Oviedo and if they have centros it´s enough for me. One more question: Can they send the result as...
I need to take an INR-test (I take anticoagulation meds for a heartcondition) on my pigrimage once a week. Where can I do that. In a Centro de salud?
Roger
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