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Biotech / Medical : Share your aches,pains,experiences,joys and cures.
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To: Suma who wrote (1539)2/27/2011 12:06:39 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) of 1564
 
I haven't been by in a while so thought I'd share my latest. For several years now, I've had issues with blood clots in my left leg (never the right - it's always the left). Got one in a superficial vein after a flight back from Italy in 2008. Then in 2009, I got one in a major vein. Before I was aware of it, I threw a part of the clot to the lungs (pulmonary embolism). Initially the doc thought it was my heart and wanted to put me through a stress test. I'd done the resting part and was set for the active part of it in a day when I noticed my left calf was swollen, a symptom I'd had with the previous clot. An ultrasound confirmed a large clot in the saphenous vein. The radiologist said if I'd gone through the stress test, I'd most likely be dead. They put me on warfarin (coumadin) for 6 months.

Then, couple months ago, I started having some of the same symptoms - swollen calf, pain in the leg that was muscular but felt like a bad shin splint. Ultrasound confirmed another clot in the left leg, this time in a deep vein that passes behind the knee. So I'm back on warfarin. I'll likely be on it the rest of my life as I don't want to risk another embolism that could either kill me or cause me to stroke out.
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