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poorrednek · Oct 28, 2009

Glad to hear your back Wise. Take care of yourself and stay on top of things

simplyred1962 · Oct 28, 2009

So glad you are back home, and the docs know what is/was wrong! Yes, Coumadin can be dangerous, but the clots a body will form WITHOUT it are deadly.
So happy you are okay and back at home, Wiseone!!

Judi Kay

Ken · Oct 28, 2009

####, that's some serious stuff right there.. I'm glad they were able to diagnose it.. Better to take drugs and live, than not and not..

Welcome back...

Mooney · Oct 28, 2009

Welcome home Wise.

I'm sure they told you this, but....

Carry an ID card or wear a medical alert bracelet stating that you are taking Coumadin, in case of emergency. Any doctor, dentist, or emergency medical care provider who treats you should know that you are taking Coumadin.
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http://www.drugs.com/coumadin.html

My mother-in-law takes it.

panhandleswife · Oct 28, 2009

Hey Reb ,

i so sorry to hearthis you please let wise know that i will be sending good thoughts his way . and keep us posted . and take care of your self to

panhandleswife · Oct 28, 2009

wiseone said: ↑

thanks for the kind wishes all. Just got back home a couple hours ago. I was in almost a freaking week this time. But, the hematologist finally found out what was wrong...thank god. I had to ride in an ambulance to jackson, tn for specialists there in the hospital there. I had a ct scan because i could feel something was wrong and come to find out something was very wrong. The docs literally called the next morning, after the ct scan, at 1am and said get to the emergency room now and it is a deadly serious situation. I was shocked to hear it was that bad!

so, i went up there and they admitted me immediately and started me on blood thinners, etc. They don't have the same type of specialists in paris, tn so they took me in ambulance to jackson. As soon as i got to jackson they immediately put this filter down my neck vein all the way down to the vein before my lungs.

had lots of clots in lungs and a few in left leg so they had to figure out wth it was. Come to find out the hematologist found it out after a couple days. It is called "lupus anticoagulant." i have to shoot myself in the stomach still for the next 5 days (been on #### all week). Then i have to take this dangerous medicine called "coumadin" for the rest of my life now. Sigh.

only 2-4% of the population ever has that so i feel lucky!...in a way, lmao. Too bad lottery wouldn't come my way, sheesh! I really was surprised at how dangerous they kept telling me this was and even the #### medicine to treat it! I could bleed to death over relatively minor cuts from now on. They even told me not to shave with a razor as if i get a cut it won't be good at all.

i knew something was wrong, but i didn't expect that for sure. He said the "lupus anticoagulant" is what caused all my clots and especially the ones that got in my lungs so bad. So at least i know now!

thanks again all!
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well we are glad your home and better sorry we just saw this .

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