u/CircularBastion

What if everyone got annual ultrasounds of their legs, like mammograms? The lifetime incidence of DVT is not much lower than breast cancer. Seems like it would save a lot of grief, expense, illness, and death if DVTs were caught early [EDIT] enough to prevent PEs, and not misdiagnosed.

It could be limited to higher risk folks like those on birth control or pregnant, those who have to travel a lot, and those over 50 or so.

Ultrasound is so much cheaper and more available than CTs and hospitalizations after the fact, you'd think insurance companies would go for it. Thoughts?

After my discharge from saddle PE and provoked (so they say) DVT, now on Eliquis, my PCP said I didn't need referrals to any specialists, nor any followup scans. "You're fine," he said. Seems like a lot of you go to hematologists. Do I just wait until I have a problem again? Or insist on getting a referral to one? Generally I'm doing well, six weeks after.

When you non-lifers go off ACs, do they do a followup ultrasound at some point after that?

This is weird, anyone have a result like this? Been taking Eliquis for 5 weeks (after Heparin drip) and a pain disappeared that I figured was permanent. Ever since a 2019 lumpectomy, removal of 4 axillary lymph nodes right side, and radiation treatments, there has been a sharp pain around the right side of my rib cage that only occurred when I twisted sideways in bed to turn off the light. (Otherwise, it didn't hurt.) Figured it was scar tissue.

But I have been noticing since the PE that I do the same action to turn off the light and there is no pain at all! Could that be from the Eliquis somehow? I don't get it.