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Has anyone else had a blood clot in the leg?

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  • 09-08-2007 3:48pm
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    CathyMoran
    Registered Users Posts: 7,458 ✭✭✭


    Shane my husband has just been diagnosed with a blood clot in the calf muscle in the leg. Has anyone else gone through this? Thanks.


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    tallus
    Registered Users Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    I had one circa eight and a half years back Cathy, after a road traffic accident. I was driving a motorcycle and got a belt of a car, majorly messed up my left femur and was left lying idle on a gurney in the mater hosp in dub. Accident happened on a monday evening, I had an op on the tuesday evening, and they found the clot by accident on my left calf muscle on the wednesday. I needen't tell you it scared the bejesus out of me, more so than the accident which was nasty, I almost lost the leg from the knee down.
    I was immediately put on warfarin and got heptarin? injections in the stomach every evening for the duration of my stay in the Mater which lasted close to three weeks.
    I was put on warfarin for the guts of eight months and eventually taken off it.
    Any questions just ask.


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