How successful is the long term anti-coagulant treatment in giving relief from the symptoms of APS?
In a recent survey of patients symptoms, and in the many discussions with patients it seems that the answer to this question is not going to be an easy one. Many of the patients suffer from short-term memory loss, this has been said to ease when the correct therapeutic anti-coagulation level is reached. This is proving to happen in only a minority of cases, and most patients refer to this getting worse. It appears that the treatment can (in some cases) halt the progression of the memory loss symptoms by reducing the interruptions in the blood supply to the brain. With other symptoms that involve clotting there is a distinct reduction of clot related problems such as DVT’s, PE’s and heart attacks, but not in the main causes of the clots and bleeds. With the destructive antibodies still active and able to cause damage to any living cell in the body it is still possible for many of the symptoms to remain unchanged and for some to become worse. Some questions show the anxiety felt due to t
