DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis)

They are a couple of little bits that snapped off my fibula and fused themselves back in the wrong place. But they are gone now, no drama.

At least i wont get a DVT this time..

So, last tests show no INR change so they've upped my dose.

Also, £50 for a pair of fucking compression tights. What the actual fuck? Apparently because the GP prescription was wrong, then I got the proper prescription for them from the hospital that makes them not on the NHS so I've been stung full wack. At least all the drugs were free but fuck me that's a lot for some tight socks...

way over the top, £22 online

last blood test was 1.9, so they asked me to take 3mg one day then 4mg the next. seeing as i only have 3 or 5mg tabs i had to stagger 3*3 and 1*5. test today will reveal (on monday) whether this has had the desired effect; although when i was spiked today my arm wouldn't stop bleeding..

So they're either taking the piss or the prescription is for 2 x pairs.

I've got 7mg tonight, tomorrow and then 6mg and 6mg and another test.

Stupid veins.

3 and 1/2 months later, fat leg still fat..

i would say that me choosing to switch (and buy) class 3 stockings instead of the class 2 tights that were prescribed has helped more (class 3 squeeze more than class 2), link on previous page

keeping an even intake is the most important thing for INR

An even intake ain't gonna happen. I'm in too many places eating too much weird stuff.

I'll take what they say and let them deal with it. I'll skip cranberry and try and ease up on the drinks a bit but that's about it.

My INR/warfarin level never settled down, even after six months. I was always forgetting to take it or running out of pills and having to go back onto jabs; i was not a very good patient. I got totally fed up with the whole thing in the end.

I never had to wear tights though. Ive got a spare unused large size one if you want it! They gave it to me yesterday..

I'll try and even 0ut my eating but this is already a pain in the butt, changing my diet for it is going to make December 'interesting'.

Thanks for the offer. I'm not sure how they measure them - mine's a type 2, size IV apparently. Does yours say anything like that?

partial explanation on compression class > http://www.daylong.co.uk/compression <

sizing grades differ from mfr to mfr, eg > http://www.beehive-solutions.co.uk/catalog/userfiles/file/Venosan%20Legline%20Size%20Chart.pdf

cos you're some sort of stunted growth convict midget i doubt you'd be a mens xl, poss a ladies medium

:P :P :P

My height is bang on average, stretch. I'm the everyman.

My huge leg muscles though put me into the larger size. At least that's what the nurse said once she'd been revived..

.. if only the dvt had occured in my middle wicket i'd have been as happy as larry

Mine doesn't sit unused for long enough to develop a clot ;)

i'm on 3mg and have to really keep an even intake ... one night on the pop, or an unusual dietary intake, and it's all to whack.

I was on Warfarin for 2 years and no-one ever mentioned this?! oh well. done now.

I'm going v through some beers from the London Brewers market. Gonna thin the shit out of this blood yeehaa!

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That's exactly the sound veins make when they rupture while on warfarin.

I didn't know that one. So:

a) Veins of a champ of what?
b)Amplifier fail.

Tomorrow it's fine, no worries.

Now, jokes apart, hippy, don't be a dick! Thrombosis are evil, I mean dangerous, if the GP said not drinking then not drinking. Now you have four pages of this thread plus all the other stuff that a few know, that's it. We all know how much you like the drinking but don't be greedy now that you're curing yourself with warfarin.
It could be dangerous and we prefer you alive and in good shape for plenty of time of drinking ahead , and that's why i will never be bored to recommend you of not being a total dick, if it's about blah blah blah on the forum on breaking the rules, I mean be a rebel, and you tell stories like I drink here I drink there I love to drink in every position sometime I gurgle too, then it's ok, but in real life follow what the the GP said, please.

In a nutshell, we know how much and what you love to drink but now you are under medication and you must be cautious, for your own safety.

Thanks for your concern dude but I'll live. The only risk is that I will bleed more if cut, which is unlikely given I'm on the sofa.

Ok, if now you are on the sofa and later too I feel relieved.

I don't know what the risks are but the injections stabilise the clotting so I've been told so long as I continue stabbing myself, it'll be fine. Anyway, if you gotta go you gotta go.

INR 1.3 so upping dose again to 9mg.

Get well soon Hippy, sorry to hear this bro.

My dad had it and was hospitalised as it made it to his lungs, but has since recovered fully and relatively speedily too.

Thanks mate.

Good to know your old man made a speedy recovery. Must've been scary though, hitting the lungs. I tried a bit of commuter racing to see if I could move mine but no dice. Seems to have gone away but they reckon 3 months of warfarin to be sure.