Hey just wondering
Could I borrow your socks??????? I hear there really comfy, and also VERY EXPENSIVE,,,, like 50 bucks a piece????
think about it ok????? lololol
Seriously,,
I"m glad your home..I hope your feeling better and know that your in my thoughts and Prayers,,
Ray:)
welcome home hun :) and i hope you got all of us some nice socks it's only fair you know :)
CJ
UHHH, the internist said your were too young or too old to have a demyelinating process. This - either way - is ridiculous. MS has been confirmed as young as 18 months and onset well into the 70's. What is he/she thinking?
Quix
Zilla- I'll buy some socks next time LOL. I'm sure that these stockings are going to cost a lot.
Quix- They didn't mention anything about a clot causing the vertigo. I'm still having the vertigo but it's not as bad as it was. They did not do an MRA. All they mention about the brain MRI was that it was abnormal but he said it had to do with a demyelinating process. The internist said that he believed that I was too young to have a demyelinating process occurring.
Multiple DVT's!!!! Unnecessary! You could have gotten sympathy from us with way less.
Siddy basically said what I was thinking. Bigtime work up for those things that make the blood go clot. Further work up of SS and things that go pop in the blood vessels.
Do they think you threw a clot starting the newest round of vertigo? Did they do an MRA?
I am so sorry you have to go through all of this. It is not fun. Shoot!
Love ya, hon, take care.
Quix
Man! Next time just go BUY some socks!
What an ordeal! I tried posting earler today, but it was lost in cyberspace somewhere...
I sure hope you get past this quickly, Slightly. Boy! It sounds horrendous.
Please feel better nad tell us what's next.
Hugs,
Zilla* (Hope they had some SX therapy for you while you were in the hospital!!)
andie- Thanks..I'm feeling better each day...it's just hard to get around right now. I'm just glad to be home and sleeping in my own bed.
Kathy- wouldn't be nice to have a Dr. House to figure out what's going on with you and in 60 minutes but I guess that just happens on TV lol. Thanks for the belated anniversary and Mother's day wishes even though I felt guilty about ruining it. I'm just glad I have my family and friends to help me through this and of course you guys :)
Marcie- thanks for the comments. Sorry to hear you had the dreaded DVTs. They are NOT fun. I know my doctors want to check me every week right now because of the high dosage of Coumadin. They don't want me to get too thin all of a sudden. I know the doctors sent away blood test to see if I have factor V-Leiden and other blood disorders that would cause this. Since my mother did the same thing back in the late 90's, they are assuming it's probably genetic or an underlining autoimmune disorder. My mother has suffered with multiple episodes of DVTs but her doctors believed at the time it was due to her Sjogrens Syndrome. My father has had several strokes so I guess I have a lot of genetic factors. They don't believe it was acquired because even though I've babied my left leg due to whatever is going on with me I'm still staying active. Just not as active as I used to be.
I sympathize with you because I have been there and done that - same thing in my left leg, the pain, everything. Hospitalized for one week - shots of Lovenox in belly for a week and then it took over 9 months on Coumadin to clear it. Your blood should be checked every 2 weeks and your medication will be adjusted if necessary.
We had a discussion on this board about the V-Leiden factor and DVT's and MS somewhere. You will have to be careful in the future because statistics are against you - if you have already had a clot - for future clots. Probably after the clot(s) have cleared you will be put on Plavix or low dose aspirin.
There are two types of blood clots, apparently. The genetic and the acquired. Did they test you for factor V-Leiden? (genetic) or was this acquired, do you think?
Hope everything goes well and that the blood clots are absorbed back into the bloodstream with treatment.
By the way, my DVT happened 2 years before my dx of MS.
Good luck
Marcie
I'm so glad you went to the ER! DVT can be a verry very bad thing, as you know. OMG, what an awful day, and an bunch more puzzle pieces. Now we just need someone to put them all together.
I'm sorry for all the pain and discomfort and the weirdness of all the docs checking you out. Shots in the belly? Ouch!.
So, when do you see the neuro? I wish they had "big picture" doctors, don't you? I hope you get some answers soon. Hey, you can't be recalled if they didn't send you a notice in the mail.
Happy belated Mother's Day and Anniversary. Thank heavens for friends and family to make things a little easier to bear. I'm one '"forum family" member thats hoping you feel better soon, and that you gets some gosh darn answers. Sounds like you got some big, clear puzzle pieces along with some real puzzlers.
I'm glad you're home safe and sound with your husband; he sounds like a peach!
Take care,
Kathy
wow, you sure have gone through alot at that hospital, It's a good thing you went when you did. Hope you feel better soon and get some answers..
take care
andie