New to the group

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Hello, my name is Laura and I am new here. I have recently been

doing quite a bit of research on herbs to help my condition. I

didn't even realize there was so many things out there to help so

many conditions until the past few weeks. In any case, I was

diagnosed with a blood clot in the vein in my leg (deep vein

thrombosis or dvt) and had a pulmonary embolism (blood clot that

broke off from my leg and traveled to my lung which is potentially

life threatening) back in June. The doctor has put me on coumadin,

which is a drug that prevents your blood from clotting as fast so

that my body can dissolve the clot and the coumadin also prevents me

from getting another pulmonary embolism. I am scheduled to come off

this medicine in December and I can't wait because the stuff is

horrible, but now, because of the dvt, the vein in my leg is most

likely damaged and I will have swelling because of chronic venous

insufficiency and possibly a reoccurance because of the damaged vein

and possible scar tissue from the clot. I have been researching

different herbs to take to help me with this condition and my doctor

is very open to herbal treatments also, she just doesn't know enough

about the different ones to recommend anything specific. I have

been looking at the following herbs:

 

Bromelain, horse chestnut, omega-3, vitamin e, butcher's broom,

nattokinase, white willow.

 

I was hoping that someone on this group could help me figure out

which ones to take and how much of each and any other suggestions

you might have that could benefit me. The reason I probably got the

clot to begin with was from birth control pills, which I am now off

of.

 

Any advice would be appreciated, the more I read and learn about the

healing power of herbs the more I want to know, it's absolutly

facinating to me that these things have always been around me and I

never knew about what they could do for me. Had I known, I might

not have gotten this clot in the first place.

 

Thanks,

Laura