WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for June, 2001: Re: Katharine who replied to my blood clot post...

Re: Katharine who replied to my blood clot post...

From: Katherine (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:06:38 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: Terry: "Katharine who replied to my blood clot post..."

Terry, I'm not at all sure that our situations are alike, but I will try to help by telling you what happened with me. I had pulmonary emboli in my lungs due to a large, deep blood clot in my right thigh. This happened very suddenly. At the time, I had 5 month sized fibroids, which I had hoped would shrink with menopause so I didn't have to have surgery. I did have very heavy bleeding and was extremely anemic, which I didn't realize til I was admitted into the hospital. In the end, the specialists' best guess about why I had the blood clot was that one of my fibroids, which was outside my uterus and attached by a stalk, pressed on a pelvic vein and caused the blood clot. In the end, I had a hysterectomy to remove the fibroids. I also was tested extensively for any kind of genetic blood disorder that would have caused the blood clots, but all the tests came back negative.

As I say, I'm not sure that our histories are alike. I only wanted to say, in my original message, that blood clots are serious things to deal with.

Hope this helps,

-- Katherine

At Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Terry wrote: > >Thanks for your input. I'm sorry you suffered like that. I'm taking >the siutation seriously: I've seen a hematologist and am seeing my >second vascular surgeon soon. I also have a large fibroid (and a >smaller one, as wella s PCOS). A pelvic MRI was done because I suffer >from edema in my feet and ankles in warm weather and sometimes they >swell enevenly. So the thinkng was that I could have a blockage, but >nothing came up. That was last year. I'm wondering what you did for >your fibroids, as I think it is a possible cause for my clots. Did you >also have heavy bleeding? > >Thanks so much for your reply, >Terry

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