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What Causes Blood Clots In Lungs?
I was diagnosed with blood clots in my lungs two months ago and went on Warfarin. This was a result of surgery from a neck fusion in July. Below is what is going on with me. I am experiencing intense pain in my legs, calves, feet, and toes; pain, numbness, and tingling in hands and fingers; blood in my stools- tonight it seems to be more of a jelly-like consistency with light red blood; muscle pain; severe headaches; fatigue. My pain gets progressively more intense at nighttime. My main concern is that, even though I am on 4 mg warfarin, that I am still forming clots. I am not pleased or confident with my doctors care. Any thoughts? Thank you. Julie
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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The most common reason for developing blood clots in vasculature of lungs is any emboli, formed in the leg veins due to stasis cause by immobility for a prolonged period, dislodging and reaching the lungs via the right heart. The legs symptoms may be due to problem in the leg vessels. and the blood in stools can be due to enhanced bleeding tendency due to Warfarin. The monitoring of dose of warfarin is recommended by doing frequent INR's. and the legs vasculature needs a thorough check up by a colour doppler test of the lower limbs
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