Surgery Tomorrow
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Sorry to hear, i wish you all the best with the surgery!
Im just curious, how did you originally figure out this was happening?
Im just curious, how did you originally figure out this was happening?
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I never want to be the person who posts nothing but the good stuff that happens in my life, as that's not a very good representation of myself, or of life in general. There are a couple of valves in the deep veins of my upper legs that basically have decided to stop working. This condition can be hereditary, but it can also be caused by heavy leg workouts over a prolonged period of time. My particular case is probably due to a little bit of both. When I walk, this problem prevents blood from getting back up to my heart, which then causes my legs to feel very heavy, like I have a midget clinging onto each leg.... and I don't like midgets very much, especially clingy ones.So I'm going in for surgery tomorrow to get one leg sorted out.... and I have to do it all over again in two weeks for the other leg. It's an outpatient procedure that only takes a couple of hours, so I should be back to my plan of ET taking over the world in no time. Anyway, I would appreciate it if you keep me in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow.
Best wishes Chief. If you need me to temporarily seize control when they knock you out lemme know.
Al Rennick Haig out
Al Rennick Haig out
Baron
ET Founder
My surgery went well and I really appreciate your messages of support and encouragement. They've got my leg wrapped up from top-to-bottom like a mummy.
In terms of how this all started symptom-wise, I noticed a small soft knot on the side of my calf a few years ago. It didn't hurt when I pressed on it and it would come and go depending on how my leg was positioned. A few months later I noticed that there was some slight discomfort when I walked, like a there was more pressure inside my lower leg that what their should be. Then the veins in my lower leg just became more and more prominent, and then all of the above symptoms spread to over to other leg as well. Then I started feeling a burning sensation that would run down the backs of both legs and that's when I called it quits and realized that this was a problem that would never get better on it's own, so I moved forward with getting some help.
In terms of how this all started symptom-wise, I noticed a small soft knot on the side of my calf a few years ago. It didn't hurt when I pressed on it and it would come and go depending on how my leg was positioned. A few months later I noticed that there was some slight discomfort when I walked, like a there was more pressure inside my lower leg that what their should be. Then the veins in my lower leg just became more and more prominent, and then all of the above symptoms spread to over to other leg as well. Then I started feeling a burning sensation that would run down the backs of both legs and that's when I called it quits and realized that this was a problem that would never get better on it's own, so I moved forward with getting some help.
You were lucky you had symptoms, it is a crap shoot when things are going on inside of your veins, most people never know....
I remember going to australia with a buddy, and he was complaining about a leg cramp, the whole flight down and i kept calling him a pussy, he went to the doctor when we got there, and he had something called "deep vein thrombosis" which was basically a blood clot that would have killed him if he left it for a day.....we always joke about how guilty i would have felt if i actually convinced him not to go to the doctor.....
Another night my dads face went numb, and his wife thought he was having a stroke, so she forced him to go to the hospital, turned out the reason his face went numb was because of a pinched nerve in his jaw, but while thy were testing him they found three aneurysms in his brain that he would have never known about, that would have killed him, if he didnt have them fixed.... he never would have known about them if it wasnt for his face going numb that one night......
Anyways what im getting at is you are very lucky that you figured what was happening in your veins, most people dont get that chance..... Congratulations on the successful surgery, and good luck on the next one!!
Ha! I won't forget this one. I'm at church (Ash Wed) at night and standing there and all of a sudden it feels like someone is cracking my ribs on my left side. Hurts like a mofo, then stops then starts again, feels like someone is standing on the left side of my chest compressing the heck out of my chest. I go home go to bed and thats that.
Three weeks later I'm working on my roof a couple hours, just when I climb down, I can't even carry my tools. I'm out of breath, the right side of my chest feels like it is cracking. I can't even lie down it hurts so bad. I take some tylenol, and go to sleep sitting on the couch. Next day, things ain't too bad so I go back on the roof and finish, in about three hours, same thing. My right side is hurting so bad I can't even eat.
My chest is still aching on Tuesday (2 days later) I tell my Doc, he does cat scan, two PE one on each side of my lungs. Destroyed tissue on the right lung, the left lung wasn't too bad.
Taking blood thinners now, Dr said I was very lucky those clots didn't do me in. Lungs are healing nicely (blood find new paths to help the lungs.)
The did ultra sound on both of my legs , pretty neat system and could see where the clots came from.