Thread: Anyone suffered from DVT

Good luck with the treatment mate, good to have found it before any real damage was done, Regards Frank.

Vern give up anything with fructose in it now! If you want to know why go and buy a book called "Sweet Poison" by David Gillespie.

in brief tell me more, do you mean things with added fructose or natural fructose as in fruit (fruit sugar)

Vern,
My wife had a rather nasty one in 2003, extended all the way from lower leg to upper thigh. We only just (and I mean only just) caught it in time. It was only diagnosed after injectable painkillers failed to give relief. She was 34!
We spent hundreds of hours with specialists and doing research. As it turns out, when you take out the known causal factors - limb inactivity, vein disease, smoking etc etc there is still a sizeable % of folk who spontaneously and unexpectedly clot! (in the order of 5-15%). My wife was not in any of the risk categories so doctors took longer to find it.

Mate, there was no good news for us. My wife was on warfarin until 2008 as well clexane injections every trip longer than 2 hours (planes, trains and automobiles). She still uses clexane for longer trips. Her veinous system in that leg is shot, causing painful swelling when not wearing a compression stocking. This in turn has considerably reduced her mobility and exercise ability. Luckily, we caught the depression early and it is under control as the threat of reoccurance wore her down!

But my good wife was a severe case, statistically remote. In milder cases of which yours sounds (I am not an MD, I just interpreted your post as milder), you should be able to manage it easily and carry on life for the most part unaffected.

Ralph

my main concern is me being a type 1 diabetic, makes the risk higher. could be time for me to grow up alittle

Originally Posted by Vern

my main concern is me being a type 1 diabetic, makes the risk higher. could be time for me to grow up alittle

Thats a good point!
With warfarin, the list of medicines, potions and lotions that are not as effective is long. Including aspirin, codeine birth control etc. You need to work closely with your haemotologist.
That being said, warfarin/clexane are mostly easy to live with. Not restrictive too much.

Ralph

i'm on clexane and cilex at the moment

Vern,

SWMBO had a very similar experience to Ralph1Malph's Mrs, including a trip to the A&E, hospitalisation, the drugs and all. She now wears a compression stocking most days. Due to valve and vein damage she has leg aches and swelling. You need to question you specialist about this!

All came about from a broken toe of all things. DVT's can get anyone but some a predisposed genetically (There's a test for this) like my Mrs.

Good luck and look after yourself.

Cheers, Mark