DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)

Compression isn't as high and I was measured for mine. I can buy sexier ones I think but for sitting around at a desk all day, I'll take cheap over sexy. I don't cycle in them.

I was measured for mine

#rep

Did lol, despite myself.

Rude tube alert!

Highs and lows of being a WORLD CHAMP, innit?

Ha. Life's tough at the top :P

This is a joke, INR has been steady around 2 to 2.4, so docs have been telling me to increase dosage progressively in order to meet 2.5 target.

Latest test result - 4.1, basically should have bled out... :(

Lesson - I'm sticking with the base 3mg and ignoring their experimentation

How much did your diet vary between tests? If you were already hitting near to your target I don't see why the dosage would increase much. How far above 3mg were you to get to 4.1?

my diet is pretty constant, eat the right things generally and keep toxin intake very low

the medics were pushing me to take 4, 5, 6, 7 then 8mg, but i limited to 5mg, glad i did :$

it's a hot day up here in northumberland (bloody beautiful view of the hadrians wall ridge), and my compression stocking is itching like a bastard!

keep toxin intake very low

Yes, well other than the warfarin, knowingly eating poisons is generally frowned upon.

medics were pushing me to take 4, 5, 6, 7 then 8mg

That doesn't sound right to me. Were they doing this on the basis of a test? My docs always tested, wacked the shit into a computer and it gradually upped my dose to get my range right. Then, when I started eating a bit healthier, they'd give me booster days (10mg instead of 8 or 9mg) maybe two days in the week schedule.

i don't fakkin kno, and they certainly don't

3mg as i started out on, is where i'm going to stay for ever

It seemed pretty easy to work out. If I was on the piss, I'd take a bit less. If I got a low INR, I knew they'd bump me a little bit. If you're taking it 4lyf, then just get your own tester and alter shit if your reading changes. If you can't be arsed with that it's still pretty easy to just drop another mg if you had a health kick and upped your greens intake. It's not like swinging a few mg either way is going to do much.

thanks doctor hippy

You know I'm right.

#hippyisalwaysright

compression tights... They made me wear them after both brain surgeries (WTF, etc. it's the wrong end of me FFS). They were torture and I only had to do a week. In a sea of horrors that was that whole experience, compression tights were in the top 10 on the "why meeeeee" list.

I really feel for you guys, I can't imagine what a year (or two‽) is like. Fuck that all the way.

I don't really notice mine, except it's probably stretched too much now as it falls down when I walk anywhere.

hmm. That does not sound like they are doing the job. Don't they have to make it feel like your feet are going to fall off? I would dream about cutting myself out of them with scissors.

Maybe. I dunno, they're still tighter than the flight socks I had on when I got the DVT.
They're in a two pack so I could swap to the other one, which would mean maybe 2-3 per sock.

You just live with it, one can adapt to anything if the motivation is strong enough

still effin itchy though

wiggle have 1000 mile ultimate compression long socks (14-17mmhg) down at £11.99 / pr

they're good

a recent picture of me, yes, at least i had me teeth in..

Oh great, having an ultrasound tomorrow but doc thinks it's only a superficial thrombosis in one of the surface veins but I have some rivaroxaban just in case.

Looks like one of my "Hincapies" has taken a turn.

Plus side I grabbed all my blood test values off the PC screen so can plot my biopassport manipulation in detail. 45% HCT has lot of headroom ;)

What were the symptoms?

The only thing I ever get is from them is blood ABV %