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Posted at 11:29 PM on Apr 07, 2008 by trice621, #29302
I am a 33-year-old female. I was taking YAZ birth control. I woke up on a Friday morning with a bad cramping feeling in my left calf. By the end of the day, I was limping. By the middle of that night into Saturday morning, I woke up in such excruciating pain. I could not walk without help. I went to the ER. They ran an ultrasound and found nothing. They said I had a "pulled muscle" and sent me home. Went to my PCP on Monday. He said it was "phlebitis" and sent me home. He told me to return in 3 days. Did that. This whole time I told them my left foot was cold, the leg was discolored, and that I could not walk! Hello! I went back in 3 days, but this time he was finally alarmed when he couldn't find a pulse in my left foot (never checked that in the first place) and sent me back to the ER. The same jerk ran another ultrasound, and there was the clot. I've been on warfarin since February. In the beginning, I had TERRIBLE HEADACHES (which have since subsided). Now I am dealing with this: CONSTANT BODY PAINS (especially my back and ribs), OVERALL BODY SORENESS (kind of like when you have the flu), FATIGUE, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, BLOATING AND GAS (I wake up with a huge painful puffy stomach every morning), CRAMPS (like having a period without one), sometimes DIARRHEA, STOMACH ACHES. When I reported the initial body pains to both the specialist and my PCP upon my follow-up visits after being discharged, both looked at me like I was crazy or making it up or something. I came home in tears after seeing the specialist. I thought he would be the one to know about this stuff! Instead, he made me feel like an idiot or crazy person. I was totally insulted and cried on the way home. I am so annoyed and have lost all faith in doctors. They should all have to retake their Anatomy and Physiology courses so they can be reminded what their ears are for. Why don't they listen to their patients? This is insane! I am so disgusted with this whole mess. I just want to give up.
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Reply 3 months ago on May 25, 2008 by corie1, #8590

I am not on birth control. Other than that, I could write the same letter you did. My insurance changed as well as my prescription providor. My Warfarin manufacture changed and I am in the same shape you are. My body wants to give up.

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Reply 21 days ago on Aug 17, 2008 by misty_lynne, #11248

Hello, I'm wondering if your side/back pain ever subsided? I am currently on coumadin and am experiencing the same pain. I began having it in the hospital but they just gave me pain relievers and blamed it on the hosptial bed. Since I've been home, the pain was intensified - so I am seeking any advice you may have. Thank you and have a good day.

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Reply 21 days ago on Aug 17, 2008 by trice621, #11249

Well, I am almost at the end of the six-month protocol now. My paperwork for the lab was written to cover through August 29, so I'm nearing the end of having to take Coumadin. Some side effects went away, others didn't. What I've had for the past few months are these: Waking up with what feels exactly like a hangover but with no drinking the night before (this includes very dry, sore, bloodshot eyes; blinding headache; and shaky/fatigued feeling), my stomach bloats out to four times its normal size about an hour after taking the Coumadin with dinner, and I still have a very sore stiff lower back in the morning. I have to take pain relievers first thing upon waking just so I can start my day. As always, the doctor doesn't believe it's from the Coumadin, yet my pharmacist confirmed that it was. I don't know if there's some bizarre thing going on with doctors and Coumadin, but they simply refuse to accept that this is causing people pain. I'm sick of them acting like I'm making it up. I wish to God they could just spend one week like this and then see what they have to say. Idiots.

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