#stopdeathlyclots

[swimmiey]

It's #WorldThrombosisDay! Learn how to protect yourself & loved ones from #VTE, deadly but preventable blood clots. I was lucky we caught it in time. I've had a deadly blood clot in my brain, it's called a (cerebral venous) sinus thrombosis. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is the presence of acute #thrombosis (a blood clot) in the dural venous sinuses, which drain blood from the brain. Symptoms may include #headache, abnormal vision, any of the symptoms of stroke such as weakness of the face and limbs on one side of the body, and seizures. A year later I also had a #armthrombosis and #pulmonaryembolism while being on #anticoagulants / #bloodthinners (medication that suppresses blood clotting). I was just 24 years old. Never thought it would happen to me, because I felt it was something that happens to older people, but sadly the truth is it could happen to anyone, at every age. Even if you are perfectly healthy. Given that there is usually an underlying cause for the disease, tests were performed to look for these, in my case, they still don't know what caused it, it's uncommon because it's pretty rare, and even more rare without a cause. I'm so lucky to be alive even though it’s with severe side effects. I was paralyzed, blind and could've had a cerebral hemorrhage because of it. It's different from a stroke, because it's a clot in a vein instead of a clot in an arterie (what's the case with a stroke). With sinus thrombosis my brain still received blood, but the blood couldn't return to my body. Therefor the disease was complicated by raised intracranial pressure, the pressure in my brain went up, 5 times the normal pressure, so they had to do emergency brain #brainsurgery to place a #ventriculoperitonealshunt to prevent the #paralysis and #blindness would turn permanent. #invisibleillness #intracranialhypertension #sinusthrombosis #wtday17 #stopdeathlyclots #bloodclot #keeplifeflowing #clottingdisorder #chronicillness #iihsucks #spoonielife #spoonieproblems #spoonie #butyoudontlooksick #bravedutchies

[swimmiey]

It's #WorldThrombosisDay! Learn how to protect yourself & loved ones from #VTE, deadly but preventable blood clots. I was lucky we caught it in time. I've had a deadly blood clot in my brain, it's called a (cerebral venous) sinus thrombosis. Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is the presence of acute #thrombosis (a blood clot) in the dural venous sinuses, which drain blood from the brain. Symptoms may include #headache, abnormal vision, any of the symptoms of stroke such as weakness of the face and limbs on one side of the body, and seizures. A year later I also had a #armthrombosis and #pulmonaryembolism is with #anticoagulants / #bloodthinners (medication that suppresses blood clotting). I was just 24 years old. Never thought it would happen to me, because I felt it was something that happens to older people, but sadly the truth is it could happen to anyone, at every age. Even if you are perfectly healthy. Given that there is usually an underlying cause for the disease, tests were performed to look for these, in my case, they still don't know what caused it, it's uncommon because it's pretty rare, and even more rare without a cause. I'm so lucky to be alive without severe side effects. I was paralyzed, blind and could've had a cerebral hemorrhage because of it. It's different from a stroke, because it's a clot in a vein instead of a clot in an arterie (what's the case with a stroke). With sinus thrombosis my brain still received blood, but the blood couldn't return to my body. Therefor the disease was complicated by raised intracranial pressure, the pressure in my brain went up, 5 times the normal pressure, so they had to do emergency brain #surgery to place a #ventriculoperitonealshunt to prevent the #paralysis and #blindness would turn permanent. #invisibleillness #intracranialhypertension #sinusthrombosis #wtday15 #stopdeathlyclots #bloodclot