Hi guys.
Quick backstory about me - I am nearly 5 weeks postpartum partum and I have severe health anxiety. I have therapy and medication to help.
I have been having this on again, off again pain in my right leg. Mild and forgettable and don't need pain relief. Convinced myself I have DVT. I had a swollen vein in right foot but it is not a deep vein.
Midwives have not been worried. My legs are measuring the same size. And I went to see a dr about the vein in foot and was not worried. Went to A&E on Saturday where they did bloods, which were normal and Dr said he is not worried and sent me home.
However, the pain has continued which sometimes feels like tightness in my calf and thigh but as I said, comes and goes and I can easily ignore. But my health anxiety won't let me stop worrying about DVT.
Today I decided to look the blood test results (the ones they did at A&E) and noticed they didn't do the blood test I thought they would do. Essentially not the D-Dimer test and instead did a PT/INR test. In my googling this test rules out nothing and when looking on clotsurvivors reddit, d-dimer is the test needed.
I'm now so so worried again. I don't trust the Dr's and want to go back to A&E.
AIBU to still be worried and not trust the Dr's? Or is Should I be reassured? Anybody with DVT knowledge able to help?
Unreasonable - you shouldn't be worried/you shoukd trust drs
Reasonable - you should still be worried/get further testing