annieannieannie
21-09-09, 10:42
I started on the pill awhile ago, and started to get a dull ache in the lower part of my right calf. Of course I was out of my mind with worry, after reading the leaflet, and asking Dr. Google. It all seemed like a DVT.
I left it, pretty much crossing all my fingers that it wasn't a DVT, because I knew they were pretty rare, even if you are on the pill.
After about 4-5 days, it still hadn't gone away, so I started wearing a compression bandage to ignore the ache.
I never went to the doctor, and the dull ache went away by itself. My friend had a similar story, and waited 4 hours at the doctors, for her GP to tell her to go home and stop worrying. I wish I'd talked to her sooner to ease my worry.
The hype of the fact that a DVT can be deadly scared the crap out of me, so in a way, I know it was probably that fear that made everything seem so much worse.
So to those contraceptive pill goers who have a freak-out on that, its probably nothing - Dr. Google always diagnoses the worst just to scare you.
:D
I left it, pretty much crossing all my fingers that it wasn't a DVT, because I knew they were pretty rare, even if you are on the pill.
After about 4-5 days, it still hadn't gone away, so I started wearing a compression bandage to ignore the ache.
I never went to the doctor, and the dull ache went away by itself. My friend had a similar story, and waited 4 hours at the doctors, for her GP to tell her to go home and stop worrying. I wish I'd talked to her sooner to ease my worry.
The hype of the fact that a DVT can be deadly scared the crap out of me, so in a way, I know it was probably that fear that made everything seem so much worse.
So to those contraceptive pill goers who have a freak-out on that, its probably nothing - Dr. Google always diagnoses the worst just to scare you.
:D