DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)

Yes he was on warfarin for a long time also, but he is right as rain now. He actually started cycling as a result afterwards as I gave him my old commuter bike to keep active.

It was very scary when he was in hospital.

Got my stupid compression tights. Fifty fucking quid for something that almost cuts my foot off. Who's fucking idea were these? I can see me not either not wearing these or leaving them on forever or until my leg dies off.

Full leg length? Good luck with them falling down unless you:

A - get a garter belt

B - fold the stocking down at the knee so you get a double layer

How many mmHG compression?

Now here is some data of real interest.

My boss collapsed with a PE on a flight back from Turkey, he's been in a bad way, chrimbo in hospital :(

Just drove back from Newcastle, despite stopping twice and walking around my calf has a nagging cramping feeling :(

Nah, I went back to the doc and they said to piss off the GP and their recommendations so I'm going with what the hospital said. The pharmacy didn't get me black ones though so I have those stupid cream ones. FFS. They are stupid tight. Feel ok around my leg but my foot is getting crushed.

It's Grade II - 23-32mmHG

Put your feet up

2.3 and in the zone. No more needles!

Might celebrate by trying heroin..

That, would be finally a good idea.

Just kidding, hippolo. BTW, I know that you are not such a dick.

So, now are you gonna sell on e-bay that second hand compression cream colour tight of yours?

If suddenly you get too busy to spend time on the internet and want me to do dat for you please send me the colour matching panties too that you have used with so that the sale doesn't risk to go too brew.

Compression socks for two years to prevent Post Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS):
http://files.http://www.clotconnect.org/patients/resources/brochures/compressionstockinghandout-1.pdf

You'll be pleased to know you can get them in black.
http://www.daylong.co.uk/products/activa-class-2-below-knee-support-stockings-18-24-mmhg.html

well, another 6 months on the warfarin, and dosage has crept up to 8mg now (from 3 initially)

I was on 8 and 9 with some days on 10. Last day was the day before I crashed ffs!
So I had to get a facial xray and another INR test yesterday to make sure I wasn't going to die (which the first cunting hospital I wasted 5hrs in should've done).

Test: try putting on DVT sock with a busted up collarbone... without pulling a face.

Been to hospital for chest x-rays, doc thinks i'm either asthmatic or I have a clot on my lung. X-ray results can take up to 10 days so been told to go straight to hospital if I feel sweaty/faint/like I'm going to die.

Fuck that doesn't sound fun :(
fingers crossed

Hooray, x-ray came back clear and inhaler has helped a lot so officially asthmatic.

Good news.
Sorry about the asthma..

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:

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

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

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

Moisturise

Moisturise

Moisturise

A whole year?! I was so happy to be able to ditch those bastard stockings after a few weeks.

Trying to get my colossal swollen tree trunks in to and out of a pair was no fun, especially when one 'trunk' was broken.

How scary @Kat_Balou - glad you can at least now treat or manage the diagnosis - better than not knowing what the hell is wrong.

Do they know why you've developed asthma? Did they do anything other than an x-ray, such as a spirometer test?

I don't want to go all Daily Fail on you but there's a lot of misdiagnosis of the condition and very inconsistent care. If I were you, I'd get a second opinion from a specialist team. My dad was treated for asthma for years before they worked out what was really wrong, by which time it was too late to treat him effectively and the asthma treatment had done a lot of harm, even though it felt like it was helping.

Two years, they said. Off the warfarin now at least. Just in time to crash. Last few months I've spent more time in ducking hospitals than at work.

I had an x-ray, an ecg and I blew into one of those tube thingies and was piss poor at it.

Both my mother and sister have asthma and both me and my sister have lactose intolerance. I am not so great at not eating yummy dairy things and have had tonsillitis, bronchitis etc in the past because of it and they have asked me to totally lay off the dairy to see of it helps.

A lot of people have told me they are handing out inhalers willy nilly which is worrying!

Did you ask if you could just wear CompresSport socks / calf guards? They're the same thing, surely, except durable.

And a bit slevless.