Dvt at 28 weeks pregnant any advice

[Sophie26]

Hi guys never posted on here before, I have just been told I have a dvt in my left leg up in my Thigh and going in to my pelvis. I'm 28 weeks pregnant and have got to have injections for the rest of the pregnancy and 6 weeks after. If anyone has any experience or advice I would love to hear it. I'm pretty upset and scared. Also we have got to a specialised on Monday to talk about labour and the rest of my pregnancy if this is happening to anyone would love to know if it will change my labour. Thanks every one

 

[ruby2015]

Hi Sophie, I'm pregnant with my first and have no experience with this, but I didn't want to read and run- so sorry to hear that the last couple of months are going to be a bit more of a worry than normal I'm so glad they managed to diagnose it though and I'm sure you'll be in safe hands. What symptoms do/did you have? I don't know how it could change your labour but maybe it depends how well you take to the injections. As long as you and the baby are well looked after that's all that matters in the end but it must be upsetting. Hope it goes well on Mon and that the specialist can answer all your questions.

 

[Sophie26]

Thanks for replying, it's so scary. I was having lower back pain on my left side, went to put the washing in and had an intense back pain. I wasn't sure if I was going to get up again. I did and went to bed for a little while as the pain was really bad. Through out the day my leg started to swell a lot and get very numb and purple and the more I was walking the worse it got. So went to a&e. Who sent me for a scan which it did not show up on. They kept me on injections for 5 days as we're very unsure what was going on and was re scanned yesterday and they found a very big clot. They think it is caused by how baby is laying.... It's really scary I can't seem to find that much advice from other people so thought it was worth writing on here. I think only 1-1000 people get it. If anyone has any symptoms like this go to your doctors straight away. It could save your life. Blood clots are dangerous and if I had left it it could have gone to my lungs.inwill get more answers on Monday. But I'm staying positive and have some great people around me x

 

[ruby2015]

Gosh Sophie, that sounds so frightening- you poor thing. It's hard to know when to go to hospital but I'm so glad you did as it sounds like it could have been really dangerous. I hope someone else on here might be able to offer some words of comfort based on their own experience but I really feel for you and hope you're ok- will be thinking of you and really hope it doesn't spoil your pregnancy. Hugs!