DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)

This is very scary reading. You think/assume being fairly active protects you from this kind of stuff.

hippy in reply to @bright

Why don't airlines mention DVT shit instead of all that waffle about life rafts and slides and shit? Knowing this stuff in advance might actually save your life as opposed to plummeting into the ground at 500mph with your head between your knees..>

So so so so much this

Gives me a nice excuse to wear tights on a daily basis.. ;)

If they do insist you wear tights (I've been wearing one particularly fetching "NHS beige" knee length stocking for a year now), a few suggestions:

1. Make sure you get them to write you a prescription for a LOT of them - they're not designed for people that move more than from the living room to the kitchen and get holes really quickly. Annoyingly you have to pay full prescription for each pair as well

2. When putting on after a shower, be prepared to spend 25 minutes hopping/swearing while you try to get them on any further than your ankle

3. It helps to already be in a relationship. I can imagine what a mood killer it might be to include this in the first night's passionate undress

4. Moisturise

5. Moisturise

6. Moisturise

1 - agreed, i find the footless knee socks better in this respect as they don't slip like the tights, also cheaper at £8.o5 per prescription than £20 a pair online
2 - I leave off for a goodwhile after washing
3 - debateable after you've been married a while...
4/5/6 - so much this otherwise terrible itching

I've been wearing them at work. Have an old pair of Skins on now instead. Not had any of those issues. Didn't know they were 20 quid a pair though!!! Ridic

http://www.daylong.co.uk/products/activa-class-3-below-knee-support-stockings-25-35-mmhg.html

Just bodged a standing desk using a couple of speakers, couple of crates and spare cupboard door, while I'm working at home today.

Saw GP and she has no record of the A&E stuff in "The System" but she's going to make an appointment for me to see local anti-coag peeps at my favourite hospital.

So, I was supposed to be on War for the last week. Balls. Guess something was lost in translation regarding the picking up of drugs. INR 0.9 so too low. They're giving me 3mg/day. Yay.

i'm on 3mg and have to really keep an even intake (read: boring no excesses of any one thing) in order to stay at optimum 2.5INR. one night on the pop, or an unusual dietary intake, and it's all to whack.

Try and get on rivaroxiban if you can

One day after starting I cut myself on a beer bottle I'm not supposed to be drinking...

They only do warf

So the hospital contradicts everything the gp says. Hospital have put me on 5mg and said i need to measure my calf for some sexy tights. They also did more blood tests. I wish they could test for cool shit.

Only just opened this thread (illness, ewww no thanks), guess if I knew you were the OP I might have opened earlier (hippy never whinges) but I mostly on the phone here now, display a bit limited.

Anyway now I get why you're taking the train right now. Shitty news man, hope you get it sorted out soon.

Seems like tomorrow night will be a fail - no beer or avocados! Shit!

You'll be a size xl

World champ drinks....

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...soup/tea/mineral water

I'm on the ale tonight, in training

..two coffins to the pub

I only took the train because I was out on the piss. Been working from home because of all the doc appointments.

Gipsy Hill Beatnik, great pale ale.

Might be better to buy a prepayment certificate http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/1127.aspx

But hospital and GP details seem never to have each others details. Good Luck.

Hopefully I'll be off this shit in ~3 months. They reckon you need to wear the compression gear for 2 years though. Looks like I've just adopted the triathlete look full-time...

Although alcohol is a blood thinner, it's also a diuretic, gotta keep hydrated

4 pints of water for me this morning

I'm back on the jabs again... :(

Ffs, what happened?

I broke my ankle a while back and they just operated today to remove some spare bones that have been deemed superfluous.

So i have to do the jabs again until xmas day...

:(

Fuxsticks, commiserations :(

These bones they've removed, does this mean your ankle will be set in one position? Can't imagine not needing all the bones to allow movement