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MOTH
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Blood clots
#4217443 - 05/25/05 03:56 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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My mom told me that a blood clot can travel from a wound in one of my extremities can travel up to my brain, clot there, and kill me.
Does anyone know if this is true? I have a wound that I did not seek treatment for and now I'm worried. I did a search and I got a lot of stuff about strokes and other scary stuff...
Does anyone know if she is just blowing info out her ass or what? (she is a medical technician)
I may try and seek medical help for this wound tomorrow, but I think it would be too late to do anything, because if it isn't stitched within 6-12 hours you can't stitch it after that...
*me*
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Re: Blood clots [Re: MOTH]
#4217455 - 05/25/05 04:36 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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hmmm i don't think that's true... i know it can happen with trombosis (when blood clots in your arteries when you sit/lie around too long)... blood basically clots in your arteries and if one of those clots frees itself and travels with your blood stream to your brain serious things can happen...
i have never heard it happen with wounds though... and i can't imagine this being possible especially since wounds are on the exterior and not in the arteries... how a blood clot from an exterior wound can find its way into the blod stream is beyond me...
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Re: Blood clots [Re: In(di)go]
#4217739 - 05/25/05 08:36 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thrombosis is very real. Not sure how often this happens though. Probably very low %. I was worried about it one time when someone was putting a needle into my vein which had a scab over it already.
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Re: Blood clots [Re: MOTH]
#4217749 - 05/25/05 08:39 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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It can actually happen. If you get like a bad bruise of something, the clot can definitely travel and cause a lot of problems. If you're worried, I would go get it checked out.
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Re: Blood clots [Re: MOTH]
#4218034 - 05/25/05 10:19 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've never heard of clots getting into your system from a wound. A google search didn't bring anything up about it either.
I had a blood clot that I swear was caused by St Johns Wort.
I'd been doing the stuff for 2 weeks and had what felt like a heart attack whilst overtaking a car at 60 mph !!!
Once I got my senses together I drove home and spoke to my neighbor (she's a manager at the hospital) and she told me to go straight to A&E.
They wired me up for a ECG and the nurse gasped at the results and said in a loud voice "OH MY GOD!"
Turned out a blood clot had passed through my heart and lodged in my lungs!!!
I was in hospital for over a month and they pumped me full of Warfarin and other anticoagulants which didn't have any effect for ages because St Johns Wort changes the enzymes in your liver therefore rendering other drugs useless !!!
When they eventually kicked in I nearly OD'd on the stuff !!!
I'll never touch that shit again.
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Re: Blood clots [Re: MOTH]
#4218043 - 05/25/05 10:22 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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your mom's just putting the scare in you.
ping Liquid_Smoke...he's in med school.
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Re: Blood clots [Re: afoaf]
#4218210 - 05/25/05 11:13 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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Damn I wonder if you could have sued the makers of the St. John's Wort?
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Edited by Mighty Bop (05/25/05 11:44 AM)
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Re: Blood clots [Re: MOTH]
#4218276 - 05/25/05 11:38 AM (18 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's True. The chances of it happening from an open wound that might require stitching are slim IMHO.
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Ever wonder why some threads end up with 1 shroom ratings? Weird.
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Hmmm I never rate threads.
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Seems pretty pointless to me. I'm never gonna choose to read or not read a thread based on the rating.
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Agreed.
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Same here.
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does anyone know about having mushrooms while taking warfarin? I am currently on long term warfarin treatment for a bloodclot, and am trying to make sense of what recreational drugs i can and cant take /: Just interested if anyone out there has eaten mushrooms whilst taking mushrooms and the like.???
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Re: Blood clots [Re: cameron25]
#4422586 - 07/19/05 08:10 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
cameron25 said: Just interested if anyone out there has eaten mushrooms whilst taking mushrooms and the like.???
Yup. Mushrooms + mushrooms = more mushrooms.
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Re: Blood clots [Re: BloodNOil]
#4422668 - 07/19/05 08:53 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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It can happen. Personal experience.
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Re: Blood clots [Re: MOTH]
#4422672 - 07/19/05 08:54 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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My grandfather died because of a blood clot in his leg, it got loose and wound up in his lungs.
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Quote:
Mighty Bop said: Damn I wonder if you could have sued the makers of the St. John's Wort?
i hate that mentality. people don't make St. John's wort. it occurs naturally. You should sue yourself for not researching the very well known side effects before taking it on a regular basis.
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Well said man.
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Quote:
debianlinux said: You should sue yourself for not researching the very well known side effects before taking it on a regular basis.
Actually, at the time I had the clot, these "very well known side effects" weren't known of!
But yeah, how can you sue the manufacturer when st johns wort is a naturally occurring plant.
Hell, it grows wild around here and I've even got some growing in the garden!
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Re: Blood clots [Re: MOTH]
#4422930 - 07/19/05 10:23 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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yo, i think that it's true.
my friend's mother died a couple of years ago from something just like that. had minor surgery and was en route to her home afterward when the road, which was too bumpy, caused her clot to dislodge and travel to her brain or her heart.. i forgot which one. killed her.
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