Yes I now have pronounced veins on my lower right leg front when I work out.
I've lost weight so there's less fat there, but I am curious. I will ask the doc on the 30th.

Yep, for me it was the warfarin. As soon as I stopped the warfarin the freakishly blue veins (especially in my hands) went away. I have bulging veins on my hands anyway, so it was really obvious, but even more so if my hands were warm. Every time I took a hot bath or shower my veins looked awful! I could also hold my hands above my head and have no visible veins, but as soon as I dropped them below my heart they were instantly blue and bulging. The fun fun fun of warfarin just never ends!

Thanks for replying. Glad to know I'm not the only one. For me, it definitely isn't weight loss related. I need to get back into shape.

My veins are more pronounced in my DVT leg but that's from the DVT. That would make sense since you have damage in those veins and your body is forming collateral veins.

Hot weather can make your veins more pronounced because it dilates veins

I think we notice things more in and on our bodies after a PE/DVT because we become so hyper vigilant about everything.

I would like to see the science on how warfarin would be specifically responsible for this.

Just one woman's thoughts and observations. If you think it's from warfarin, have at it.

I have Zippo as far as scientific evidence, unfortunately! I just noticed my veins being VERY blue and pronounced after my PEs. I figured with my blood being thinner it made sense that when my hands were warm there would be more blood in them. I didn't really think too much of it, but now that I'm off warfarin, my veins are definately not as dark. I have had many people tell me my skin looks better (more color) now that I'm off warfarin, so maybe it was just pale skin that was causing the really dark veins. Who knows. At least my hair has stopped fallign out! :)

But your blood isn't literally "thinner" when you take warfarin. Warfarin just blocks certain clotting factors in your body, which decreases your body's ability to form clots.

Like I said if you think it's warfarin that's what you think, but there may often be other explanation for things. And I'm not saying we shouldn't use terms like thinner and thicker because it's kind of how the general population understands anticoagulation and I use those terms all the time myself. But when we understand how the drug works, it takes some of the mystery out of the drug, and then maybe we won't feel so compelled to blame every single thing we notice as a side effect for warfarin.

I'm not trying to argue that your experience isn't real or anything like that. I mean, if people think it's warfarin that's doing something, then think they can think that.

Any when I was off warfarin briefly, my hair stopped falling out too.

I'm not convinced it's warfarin, since it's not a constant thing for me. Rmb, I think you are correct that I notice things more now. For all I know, my veins did this off and on before my PE....I just didn't care enough to notice.

After a class on oral pathology I 'developed' a 'cancer' on my lower lip!

I saw an oral surgeon and he laughed (but politely). It was a venous lake and very common for people who had a lot of sun exposure, which described me at the time. I was sure it was melonoma.

But I can understand how some might worry about it, esp. after DVTs/PEs.

Yeah, I get that. I have tendonitis in my elbow, but didn't have that diagnosis until seeing an ortho. Prior to that , I did some research and my symptoms were classic tendonitis yet still felt compelled to ask the ortho if he was sure it wasn't bone cancer. Seriously. He said oh my god you sound just like my wife. Apparently whenever she has a headache she thinks it a brain tumor.

***Apparently whenever she has a headache she thinks it a brain tumor.****

You mean they aren't??? (humor emoticon inserted here)

Exactly!