You didn't miss it, Mikie. They honestly still are not sure. They ruled out any genetic causes or predispositions, as well as some of the common diseases like Lupus that can cause them.
The one thing they keep coming back to is my trans-Atlantic flight from Scotland in mid December. They always warn that on a long flight, you should get up and stretch and get your circulation moving, which I didn't do as I was watching movies the whole time.
The doctors don't think that was the cause because it was so long before the hospitalization, but I suspect they are wrong. I was having leg pain three weeks (or more) before I went to the ER, thinking it was a pulled muscle. So the clots could have started much closer to the flight in question.
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Date: 2013-05-09 02:13 pm (UTC)The one thing they keep coming back to is my trans-Atlantic flight from Scotland in mid December. They always warn that on a long flight, you should get up and stretch and get your circulation moving, which I didn't do as I was watching movies the whole time.
The doctors don't think that was the cause because it was so long before the hospitalization, but I suspect they are wrong. I was having leg pain three weeks (or more) before I went to the ER, thinking it was a pulled muscle. So the clots could have started much closer to the flight in question.
The exact cause, however, is still up in the air.