My Day at the Hospital

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Originally Posted by Sightseek

So for a little over a week I had been having calf pain in one leg and thought (hoped) it might just be a combination of riding and weight training that was bothering me, but yesterday I was getting nervous because it definitely didn't feel like a muscular issue and I had blood clots in that same leg once before following knee surgery. So I go to bed, wake up this morning and there was zero question in my mind when I stood up what the problem was.

So I go to my primary care physician (because you can't breathe near another doctor's office without a referral) and they refer me to get vein dopler done later in the afternoon at a specialist's office. They do their thing (which is actually pretty cool because you can both see and hear the blood in your veins) and tell me I should go to the ER. It's 4pm. I go to the ER, sit in the waiting room until 7:30 a doctor sees me and goes over the report sent over by the specialist and tells me that they don't want to treat me, but would rather see how it progresses and then determine in a few days whether to treat me or not, but would be happy to prescribe me pain medicine (WTF were talking about bloodclots here not a sprained wrist?!?!). So I essentially say I am not comfortable with that decision and he really needs to get a second opinion. So they do their own test, bloodwork etc. and the doctor comes back and says that I did actually have a very serious clot and that they are going to continue treatment.

What if I hadn't spoken up and just went home?!

a hospital stay sucks... hope ur better soon. U can probably imagine what care would have been like wading thru those w/their new susidized health care cards looking for nothing but a lunch. and they hungry so f' ur clot.