Mums who have had DVT

[Nettlerash]

Hi,

Breifly, I developed a calf DVT about 4 months after the birth of my child last year. No cause was really found.
About 9-10month later I started getting pain again in the same leg. Had an US which revealed a chronic Superficial clot.
I have had a few bouts of pain since then but it has been worse over the past few days.

The thing is the pain is intermittant - it comes on usually in the evening when I have been sitting down and try to get up to stand and in the daytime it can completely disappear.
Last night It was so painful I could not stand on it but this morning it seems ok.
I'm not sure what to make of this. Could it be PTS?

I recently found out I am about 7 weeks pregnant too.

GET TO YOUR GP!

Could be absolutely nothing, but you need to get checked out, especially as you're pregnant and your blood becomes 'stickier' in pregnancy.

I had a DVT when pregnant with no.2. Was put on tinzaparin and then warfarin post-pregnancy. Came off it when clot has disappeared, but when fell pregnant again had to go on tinzaparin to stop possibility of another.

Hope you're okay.

Thnaks witty, shall try and get an appointment. Its just annoying how it comes and goes.

I know, and I feel for you, but please please get yourself checked out. Are you on any ongoing medication?

Did you have treatment through a hospital that has a dvt nurse or clinic that you could ring up and get seen asap? Alternatively do you have a midwife that you could see who could get you referred to get your leg scanned again?

Think they are supposed to put you on a pg-safe blood thinner (eg heparin) if you have had a clot and have another pregnancy just in case.

After my second dc I had a dvt when he was about 2 weeks old. Despite asking for tests to see if there was any reason for me getting one but was fobbed off with 'you were pregnant' which was supposed to be enough.

it has taken me nearly 3 years to get a referral to a haematologist to see if I have any underlying condition as I'd like to try to get pg again but don't want to risk another clot.

If you've already had a couple of clots then you should have been looked at by a haematologist I'd have thought...

other friends have also discovered the hard way that they have blood condition that makes them more susceptible to getting clots - another side effect of this that they are also more likely to have miscarriages so need to have the drugs to reduce the likelihood of miscarriage. Sorry, don't want to introduce even more worry at this moment but it's another thing to throw into the mix and to get yourself seeing somebody sooner rather than later.

Lots of these conditions that exist are actually pretty common in the population (1 in 20, 1 in 50 type things) so they don't bother to check everybody out or everybody that is pregnant even. But once you have had a clot (or certainly 2!) they really should be doing more, particularly when you are pregnant.

I have not had a DVT so obviously a different situation to you and you should be checked out. But I have had severe superficial clots in both my previous pregnancies which have ended up with me in hospital with suspected DVT. Although just a superficial clot, the pain can still be so severe, especially when trying to stand after sitting/lying down. I used to find I couldn't stand up in the night to get to the toilet and had to drag myself along the landing withour raising my leg... I wasn't offered any drugs with a superficial clot though, just support stockings which didn't seem to help much. And it did used to come and go exactly as you describe.

Hi again
Anyway I had my booking in appt today with a new Dr for my pregnancy and had waited for this appt to tell her about the pain as it had been on-off all week.
She seemed very unconcerned looked at it (didnt even palpate it)(when I palpate it like other Dr's have done it is very painful and tender)told me 'it was not red or swollen' (without measuring it up with other leg) and told me it was probably a muscular problem and to keep excersising it!

I am annoyed and dont think I have been taken seriously.

She has sent off my booking form to the hospital and said I should hear from them soon.

I am not on any anticoags and no one has mentioned taking aspirin or anything.

Isthree, I have also had at least one Superfical clot and it did hurt quite a bit, it can be hard to tell the difference can't it? I had thought this could possibly be another SC but it seems to be a bit more generalised and 'deeper' Also when I had my SC I didnt have any sign of veins. I still don't. As far as I know I dont have varicos veins either. Isthree could you see or feel your SC?

Zipzap, I had actually been tested for Antiphospholid syndrome and had a thrombophilia screen. (first came back positive,second borderline and third negative_so my last Dr don't think I have any of those conditions)So we still dont really have a cause for my DVT.

Those of you who have had DVT, I wondered if you ever experienced this coming and going pain. It seems to be ok when I have been up and about for a while but its worse when I get up from resting or am sitting for too long.