Blood Clots!

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

Your surgeon should be very aware of blood clot risks and how to mitigate them (if not get another surgeon).

According to my surgeon, the two biggest risks from surgery are pneumonia and blood clots. Both can be life threatening.

Just follow your surgeon's instructions which should include: walking, staying hydrated, taking the prescribed medication (whether shots or pills), using any devices prescribed (like leg pumps, incentive spirometer, etc.).

If you aren't sure what to do, then ask your surgeon and healthcare team, and keep asking until you understand.

[breezy25 69]

This is also my biggest fear. I've been trying not to worry about it....but then I read stuff like this lol.

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[ACV 34]

I also have Factor V and a pulmonary embolism. The surgeon at the seminar last week answered some of these questions for me. An ivc filter is likely for me and he said he'd probably change the warfrin that I take to something else for at least a month after surgery. I still don't know if he'll approve my surgery because of what I have mentioned and I also have COPD emphysema and diabetes. I'm hopeful still that I'll be approved. I do worry though.

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[LaurieMore 20]

Good luck. Ya my clots have been only in my legs. I think it is smart to get filter if you have already had a P.E.