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- anyone been diagnosed with high cholesterol after having a PE?i wasnt tested for this until this week after my opticician noticed cholesterol deposits in my eyes. I have had some bloods done but havent got the results yet. I have read up about it...
- i should never ever google - when will i ever learn?today i had my eyes tested and was told that i needed to go to the dr for a blood pressure check and also there were cholesterol deposits showing in both my eyes. called the dr but the first...
- im six months out and today 6pm came and went - i didnt take any warfarin and hope its the start of a new beginning for me! fingers crossed - i fully expect the nerves to kick in over the next few days and to feel every little niggle - and probably...
- ok - lots of thoughts going round in my head and ive still to take my warfarin for another month!how will i know if its happening again? i didnt have any leg pain or signs of a DVT - it was just the chest pain for me - sharp shoulder pain, shallow...
- I had my visit to the hospital today for the results of my follow up ct scan - good news - there were 2 x 3mm nodules that showed up on my initial CT scan - today it was confirmed that when they were scanned 3 months later they had not grown or...
- i went back to work 2 weeks ago and although im just working 3 days a week (and just a couple of hours at a time) i had to call in sick today. I have a rather stinky cold and my throat feels like broken glass. I decided to stay home rather than a)...
- Finally today i returned to work after 4 1/2 months off since my PE's in October 2011. Just worked a few hours, my employers are supporting my phased return over the next 3 months so that i can increase my workload gradually without overdoing...
- i just found this and it makes interesting reading - i wasnt given this much info from the hospital:-http://pfrc.med.nyu.edu/handouts/pdf/medic/warfa.pdf
- how come i can never seem to know what is too much? doing too much causes pain and discomfort - to the extent that i am currently lying on the sofa with a hot water bottle on my back as the pain from my lungs is really not nice. I try to do a little...
- 4 months in from pe's - i seem to have swelling in my ankles - at night it is most noticeable - some days more than others and its not to the extreme that i was whilst pregnant but i do certainly notice it. Anyone else noticed this?
- A few weeks ago i set myself a target to have 5 good days and i got 9 - was really pleased with myself as prior to this i had been feeling yukky for 10 days. I've stopped counting now as i seem to just go round in circles - although initially i used...
- i recently had my repeat CT scan and as yet i havent had the results but i just wondered - when i had the first scan when the clots were diagnosed they injected an iodine dye into my arm - this wasnt done the second time - does that mean the clots...
- my inr results have been up and down since diagnosis in early oct and it would seem to be that each time it gets to a therapeutic level it then drops again, i take a higher dose, its gets to the correct level and then drops again - and so on - my...
- i notice that before i go to bed my lower legs look swollen - they are not too bad but enough that i notice it - they dont give me any pain but i just wondered has anyone else noticed this?
- Does anyone have a strange feeling in their neck? Sometimes at one side and then at the other, sometimes both. Its not a pain as such just a sensation/feeling not even a discomfort - i just wonder what it is - it happens maybe 4 or 5 times in the...