DVT - Living With Deep Vein Thrombosis

I remember how it felt, a tightness in my upper thigh. I thought I had pulled my groin muscle or something. The worst thing that I did was wait. No one tells you what these things feel like. And when they do they use complex descriptions.

I will tell you that the blood clot I had felt like I had a pulled muscle.

I was walking around it for days. I even had my friend massage this "pulled muscle." When I think about it, it kind of makes me cringe. My friend sitting there rubbing this deadly blood clot in my leg, yuck. If it was massage the right way I a sure and the doctors where sure that it would have killed me.

This tightness was the blood being restricted in my veins by the clot.

If you feel this tightness in your extremities (arms or legs) go to a hospital immediately.

I made the mistake of going to an urgent care facility. They misdiagnosed it completely ...