Re: Anyone every get Superficial Thrombophlebitis?

[Guest guest]

Keli,

I am so sorry to hear you had this happen to you. I have never had it, but

my mother did last year but she didn't have PA. She was in hospital for a

lung problem and developed the blood clot from the anitbiotics IV. She had a

terrible experience with it, but she was 80 years old.

The treatment they gave her is just as you described and I thought at the

time it seems there should have been more they could do. I'll pray for swift

recovery.

Janet

[Guest guest]

Anyway,

> just wondering if anyone else has had this happen

> from an IV.

>

Hi Keli, I've had this happen to me before with my

right arm. I remember the pain was terrible, and after

they moved the iv to my left arm and strapped it down,

then I couldn't move either arm and I was left lying

flat on my back, unable to help myself. Hope you'll be

feeling much better soon

warm blessings,

jane

--- Keli <krhoden78@...> wrote:

> Hi everyone it's been a while since I have been in.

> Tueday I went in

> the hospital for a simple outpatient procedure. I'm

> starting to

> learn after having PA since about age 15 i'm now 27

> that there is

> now such thing as a simple outpatient procedure.

> Anyway, my problem

> came after I left the hospital late Wed, early Thurs

> morning. They

> had started an IV in my right arm to give me fluids

> and medication

> to make me go to sleep.My right arm became swollen

> and painful. At

> first I thought maybe it was just a flare with the

> PA but Thursday

> night it kept me up most of the night so Friday

> Morning I called my

> primary doctors office to see if they could see me

> and they could so

> I went in and he said it was Superficial

> Thrombophlebitis. It has

> been the most painful thing ever. Hurts for anything

> to touch it,

> hurts to move it up or down, hurts to lift anything.

> He explained

> it's not the same as with the deep vein that kills

> people in

> hospitals ect. Told me to take asprin, to thin the

> blood so it would

> flow easier,keep putting warm compresses on it and

> gave me some pain

> medication- darvocet. Needless to say i've been

> sleeping away most

> of the past 3 days and my arm still hurts. Of course

> I'm due to have

> another procedure on Tuesday but there's no way i'm

> letting anyone

> do anything the way my arm is hurting. They are not

> going to be able

> to put a blood pressure cuff or an IV on that arm

> for sure. > Thanks,

>

> Keli

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