Wishing the the best LQ! Tim c5-c6 (23 yrs. post) ________________________________ From: ~LittleQuad~ <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; Danny Hearn <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] DVT in calf I don't know...I'm not sure how bad it is. i go to the doctor in the morning. it seems the docs may not think it's thaaat bad... not sure? LQ--- On Fri, 6/8/12, Danny Hearn <[email protected]> wrote:
>From: Danny Hearn <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] DVT in calf >To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] >Date: Friday, June 8, 2012, 11:20 AM > > > >yes, hope you get better soon----in rehab I had one in my leg and was on blood >thinner too---cant remember the lenth of time, but seeed like a month or 2 >maybe. They put a greenfield filter in my groin leg area...and said that >should keep any more from getting to my lungs or heart. Yours may have been >caused by the dentist and leg accident thing--good luck ! Dan H. *** > > >________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Sent: Fri, June 8, 2012 11:08:08 AM >Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] DVT in calf >Amye, are you a good candidate for an Everclear filter that is implanted in >the leg to filter and prevent clots? Just asking >Best Wishes > >In a message dated 6/8/2012 11:02:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: >Hey gang! My right calf and foot have been swollen and numb feeling (I have >great sensation in whole body). So Tuesday I was able to see my rehab doc, he >thought the symptoms showed a DVT. I couldnt think of why I would have one. So >the Wednesday I went to get ultrasound. Yep, the front left vein has a clot. >They wouldn't let me leave the hospital until the doctors had a plan. So I'm >on 5mg Coumadin a day and a shot of Enoxaparin Sodium every 12 hours. >> >>Yesterday when I was getting up I looked down at my right chin, i remembered >>a scab that I've had a while and it dawned on me...on May 7th I went to the >>dentist and while under nitrous and my hand control turned to the side, I >>decided to reaarange my chair. In doing so I rammed my leg into a table. >>Thank goodness I had on jeans and a blanket because it scraped my leg to chin >>bone. It never dawned on me i could have given myself a DVT. Yet when I look >>at the now scar and where my sensation starts changing it's the same area. >> >>Now I've got to watch out more closely!! Anyone else ever have one? How long >>was treatment? >>Amye - LQ
