What Does Blood Clot In The Legs Feel Like?
Sadly, I know all too well. I’ve had 2 now. With the first one, my leg swelled up, at first it felt like there was a “fluttering” in the vein for lack of a better word. Then the pain came along. I was in pain, it hurt to get up and walk, I couldn’t walk without help. I went to the emergency room and they couldn’t figure out what it was, because I was not in the age bracket normal for clots, I was a lot younger. Then my husband mentioned clot, and they take an ultrasound of the veins in question. I then had to stay in the hospital for a couple days. It ended up getting infected, and I had to go back into the hospital. When it gets infected they call that sceptic. This was one of the worst things that I had ever been through, and I still deal with it every day. There is scar tissue that causes phlebitis, so in my case, I deal with that every day. Since I had the second clot, I have to take the medicine coumadin every day for the rest of my life. I don’t ever want another one, because in
