Re: Blood Clots to Lungs

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Jim,

My husband had multiple blood clots in his lungs. They discovered

this in the doctors office and immediately put him in a wheelchair and

wheeled him thru tunnels to the hospital.

This is a VERY dangerous condition. They started giving him

injections to the tummy. He was also put on Coumadin to thin the

blood and try to disolve the clots. Oh, the most important thing they

did was rush him down to radiology and insert a IVC filter in the

groin to try to catch the clots incase he had anymore trying to move.

They told him that they needed to move fast because he might not make

it down to radiology.

The only time he had a lot of pain was the week before we found out he

had the clots. One night he was in the bath room and let out a

horrible scream. He had a very high pain tolerance so I knew

something bad was going on. When I got in there he said he was having

a hard time breathing and it felt like knives were stabbing him in his

chest. I called my daughter and we got him back into bed and put a

heating pad on his lung area. The pain stayed all night and he said

he felt like he was sitting in the bottom of a swimming pool and

trying to breath. The next morning we took him to the pulmonary

doctors office.

He was in the hospital for 6 days and they monitored his blood very

closely because they had to get it so thin. They said it could take

months for the clots to disolve. They gave him breathing treatments

with a neublizer every 4 hours and seemed to help.

Unfortunately on the 7th day I got a call that he had hemorraged and

had no pulse. This is a very dangerous condition so make sure your

brothers doctors are staying on top of this. Is he in the hospital?

I think the name of the shots to the tummy was Levonox.

Hope this helps,

Joce

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> My brother Dennis dx cc stage 4 in June of 2003 is now having a very

> painful bout with blood clots (past 2 days) doc has him on two types

of

> meds. Does anyone in the group have experience with clots? If so

how

> long before you can expect to feel better? This is really tough on

my

> brother.

>

> Thanks

>

> Jim

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