Hello everyone,
Two months ago, I was diagnosed with a small clot in my right calf. I decided to see a doctor even though the pain was mild, with no swelling or the typical symptoms you usually see on Google. I thought it was muscular.
They found the small clot, ran a lot of blood tests that ruled out genetic causes, and at the moment nobody knows where this came from.
I’m on Eliquis for at least six months.
The thing is that for the past two or three days, I’ve started having pain in my “good” leg as well, also in the calf. I go to the gym, so at first I thought it was muscular because I had trained legs, but I worked both legs and I only noticed pain in that one.
Honestly, the pain feels muscular to me, but the pain also felt muscular when they found the clot...
Yesterday I went to the ER, but they didn’t have Doppler ultrasound available. They scheduled me an appointment for three days from now. In the meantime, at the ER they checked my D-dimer, which came back at 0.163 mg/L, which if I’m not mistaken would be 163 ng/mL FEU in the English-speaking world (I’m from Spain, and here we use units that may not mean much to many of you).
The doctor herself told me that being anticoagulated can falsely lower D-dimer levels, so I don’t know whether such an apparently low result is enough to rule out a new clot, or whether things are not that simple.
I’m worried because if I’m having a recurrence while taking Eliquis, I assume it means something is wrong...