I had a DVT in 98 and had a similar situation, but albeit not nearly as bad as yours. I was bedbound for about when one day my left leg began to swell above the knee and felt warm to the touch. I called in and talked to my nurse practitioner, who then told me it was nothing serious and to simply keep it elevated income and the next day. I was clueless as to the symptoms of deep vein thrombosis at the time.
Thank goodness my roommate was a resident doctor at a local hospital. Around midnight when he arrived at my house we questioned him and he let me know in no uncertain terms that I needed to get into the hospital ASAP. Right now I'm taking an adult aspirin 81 mg every other day. Quadius On 4/13/08, Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a DVT (deep vein clot/thrombosis) in 1995 that was encouraged by > surgeries. I was also very, very, very lucky to have survived it because I > was telling doctors (my neurosurgeon and his staff hours away) my symptoms > and they were ignoring them even though they were classic symptoms of a > DVT! Hitherto ... I was not familiar with clots of any type so I was in the > dark. It was the Internet that saved my life essentially. > > With what I described... they should have wanted to at the very least > eliminate the possibility of a clot since I just had two surgeries with that > doctor and that is a primary thing to worry about after surgery. But > noooooo... I thought it was probably just swelling and I should wear some of > those tight hose. QUACK, QUACK >
