Blood Clots
- Thread starter SkyRider
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Didn't Chris Bosh have blood clots ? Seems to me one of the most common treatments is to take blood thinners.
WTF? Don't listen to this guy. Blood clots are potentially life threatening if not treated properly. You will likely be prescribed blood thinners, but which ones will be determined on the type and location of the clot. Your doctor will make this determination. Go see your doctor!
Dont listen to me? Then the first thing you mentioned was you will likely be prescribed blood thinners.
Alkazelter with a tall glass of water is a blood thinner, 350mg of ASA per tablet. The equivalent of a regular strength Aspirin. Anything beyond that information is out of my knowledge, if someone wants a doctors advice they wont find it on terb.
Of course if you hadn't had lotsa bloodclots already you'd have bled out long ago. Clots are good, in appropriate places, in normal circumstances. It's abnormal clots in bad places — like spontaneously blocking arterial flow to the brain —that you should concern yourself with, not clots in general.
Heart arrhythmias increase the risk of clotting and resultant stroke, for which my doc prescribed daily low-dose Aspirin™. But you'd be foolish to self-medicate or even start fretting without first consulting the doctor the good people of Ontario have placed at your personal service.
An ultrasound of the leg is not a normal circumstance, and I'd bet that very doctor ordered yours. Why aren't you asking her thinking and tapping her knowledge, as part of your post-procedure debrief?
Heart arrhythmias increase the risk of clotting and resultant stroke, for which my doc prescribed daily low-dose Aspirin™. But you'd be foolish to self-medicate or even start fretting without first consulting the doctor the good people of Ontario have placed at your personal service.
An ultrasound of the leg is not a normal circumstance, and I'd bet that very doctor ordered yours. Why aren't you asking her thinking and tapping her knowledge, as part of your post-procedure debrief?
I am currently battling a few physical ailments one of which is a blood clot that formed in my upper thigh shortly after I had surgery.
I will be giving myself daily shots of a blood thinner into my stomach until the end of the year.
I'm sure that if I could have simply taken a daily glass of Alka-Seltzer and water than the doctor would have prescribed that instead of these shots that cost about $1400/month.
I will be giving myself daily shots of a blood thinner into my stomach until the end of the year.
I'm sure that if I could have simply taken a daily glass of Alka-Seltzer and water than the doctor would have prescribed that instead of these shots that cost about $1400/month.
Maybe Alka seltzer does work, I don't know. That line of yours that blood thinners cost $1400/month might be the reason your Doctor is prescribing them. It's all about the money with any kind of treatment.
sweet jesus $1400 a month?
what is the active ingredient in these shots your doctor prescribed you?
I was doing some gardening. Felt some soreness/pain in one of my legs afterwards. Had a sleepless night. In the morning I could barely walk because the pain was so intense. I didn't want what happened to Miles O'Brien to also happen to me.
The ultrasound was done as a precaution. No blood clot. I heard stories of blood clots breaking free and travelling to your heart and/or lungs and kill you. BTW: Has anybody tried to ask doctors more than 3 questions before they say they have to attend to other patients?
It does thin the blood and even a side effect of taking too much is bruising which is a definite sign of blood thinning. And you make a good point thats how doctors make their money through prescriptions.
That was where I felt the intense pain. So intense I could barely walk. I thought my thigh was going to turn blue (it didn't).
My experience with someone else who went through this. Tingly pain in leg, initially mistaken for sciatica type of pain. Leg started to swell however. After a trip to emerg and some ultrasounds, a blood clot was the conclusion. No firm trigger as to cause.
Very dangerous situation in case clot travels to heart or lungs.
Weeks of heparin shots ($$$), then months of cumidin/warfarin pills (cheap) and eventually down to maintenance with ASA. Compression stockings required, and whole episode left permanent damage to vessels in the leg.
Alka seltzer would have done shit here likely.
Very dangerous situation in case clot travels to heart or lungs.
Weeks of heparin shots ($$$), then months of cumidin/warfarin pills (cheap) and eventually down to maintenance with ASA. Compression stockings required, and whole episode left permanent damage to vessels in the leg.
Alka seltzer would have done shit here likely.
Yes, that was the diagnosis in my case. I had feared that maybe there was vein blockage.
In the Miles O'Brien case, some camera equipment fell on his arm. He thought it was just a bruise. Someone the injury had blocked blood flow in his arm. By the time he went to hospital his life was in jeopardy. The docs had to amputate part of his arm.
Blood clots can be dangerous. They can break up and travel and if it goes to your lungs you will have a pulmonary embolism. If you see a red patch on your leg and its starts to swell you could have a blood clot and should seek immediate medical attention. I believe blood thinners are the treatment however some clots can be life threatening and would require surgery. We are nothing without our health, good luck buddy.
I had one in my Calf...Feels like a Charleyhorse that just wont go away...tender to the touch
Hurt like a Motherfucker!!!
Good Luck with it
Big athletes are very susceptible to them...sitting on planes for a long period of time is a contributing factor
Hurt like a Motherfucker!!!
Good Luck with it
Big athletes are very susceptible to them...sitting on planes for a long period of time is a contributing factor
Don't forget the companies that make the drugs. They make the big dollar profits.
Benstt, taking coumadin/wafarin for months is lucky, my dad has been on those blood thinners for years and will be on them until he dies, glad you're off of them. If my dad took alka seltzer, he'd be dead by now, but if someone wants to roll those dice, be stupid and take that chance.
Mr. Piggy, not every drug produced by a pharmaceutical company is part of a conspiracy.
Mr. Piggy, not every drug produced by a pharmaceutical company is part of a conspiracy.
Daily aspirin therapy to prevent clotting is a common prescription by doctors. Its usually a dose of 325mg once per day, sometimes less. That is the exact same amount of ASA in every alkaseltzer tablet only it is absorbed faster dissolved and easier on an empty stomach. Im amazed at how many people in this thread has never heard of aspirin as a blood thinner.
