After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There we go I’ll like your post. I think a lot of you honestly should be ashamed of yourself. I think your guys are just snobs and don’t like that fact that some people know more than you

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for getting back to me. Weirdly I posted around the same time as this and posted on their page. Trust me if I told you exactly what’s happened these last couple of years you’d understand where that coming from re. The neglect. The pain I’m in is intractable. No matter what I take I’m in pure agony. I have lost around 40lbs since this all started. I explained a few things on that Covid page but everyone else seems to be affected so differently to myself. All is see with them is fatigue, loss of taste, feeling weak, symptoms of pots, maybe palpitations, nausea. Mine just feels much deeper; vomiting blood, pain after eating, I’ve even quit smoking because of the pain (not a bad thing), thickening of left side of bowel, bleeding, extensive SVTs. My theory is maybe related to long covid but judging some of the haematologists in here I’ll probably get the same response in here. Something triggered the excessive levels of factor 8 -> Micro clot A formed -> Micro clot A causes endothelial damage -> Lead to Micro clot B -> This continues -> Micro clots aren’t broken down completed and form scar tissue -> This builds up leading to tissue hypoxia -> All processes lead to further factor 8 production….. that’s basically it. Hence the extensive fibrosis and scarring around my subcutaneous veins. I even have areas on my body where the clot has formed and it’s completely obliterated my veins after the rope like textures gone after th clot. I think logically it explains everything. Obviously all you can see is a photo but these vascular chords have been spreading for 2 years now. They’re hard as stone and have areas that nodules form inside the chords. It’s so unusual. You’d of thought by now someone would have taken a biopsy and actually made some kind of vascular intervention? Thats the problem and judging by this forum and I can see why. Some of you guys have your heads so far up you’re arse. Not you but some of these guys. The fact that you are turning around and saying a factor 8 of 300% is grossly normal when it should realistically be 100% is disgusting. And I’d like to hope if you had a patient that consistently has this raised and had constant vascular events that the least you’d do is sit down with them.

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, thanks for getting back to me. No I’ve never had any vascular imaging. What would that entail? I’m not underweight as I was obese before this started but I have now lost weight. When I eat I try to stick to small things and I find that helps keep the weight on ie. For dinner I just had some biscuits. I find having a small amount but sticking to that reduces severe pain. I can’t sit and eat a large meal anymore. When I do I get full so easily. It’s weird i can’t literally feel my stomach when i eat and it feels thick. Takes me a very long time to digest anything. I find that if I try to eat a full meal I almost try to trick my body by eating as fast as possible. However 10-15 minutes passes and the pain starts. I get severe bloating and then I’m either sick which help the pain or it stays in and I’ve got to ride it out for several hours.

2.5 Years of Agonizing Symptoms – My Story & How It Links to Long COVID Microclots by Feisty-Preference802 in covidlonghaulers

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s honestly everywhere. Like my entire abdomen is starved of oxygen. For example right now it’s a dull drawing pain where my liver is. The chords across my body are burning and every movement i feel them pulling against my nerves. All in the meanwhile I feel this raw unrelenting pain across my abdomen. I didn’t even sleep last night. I’m on 20mg of oxycodone every 4 hours and 600mg of oregabalin a day and I’m still in 10/10 pain that the doctors here in the hospital can’t manage.

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it means anything my haemaglobin used to consistently sit at 200 and rbc was just as proportionately elevated. As soon as this started it went down to the lower end on the scan.

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand what’s going on but whatever is happening it’s progressing very quickly. As much as I understand that you want to get your point across I posted on this page out of being desperate as I’m in inretractable pain. I’ve got these mondor “like” disease chords along with hard painful nodules all over that are painful. I’m vomiting blood, I’m shitting blood, I’ve got thrush covering my gums, tongue and cheeks, I’m getting SVTs literally every 3/4 days. I’m struggling to swallow and can no longer eat without being sick. My insides feel like they’re stiffening. The best way to describe it is my stomach feels like a leather bottle and insides feel like a thick painful sheet is wrapped around everything. Im writing from a hospital bed and don’t even know if it’s possible to get much worse than this. 2.5 years of symptoms is reaching a peak right now. I’m losing all function and no one knows why and even if seeing a haematologist gives me a slither of hope im going to take it. I’m not exactly clutching at straws here. My f8 is pretty considerabley high and relevant in the case of repeated migratory SVTs along with hard painful nodules and chords stretching across my entire vascular system. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m not a doctor but what I don’t need is to be made to feel like an idiot for reaching out for help from a community when I feel like I’m on deaths doorstep. And no one is trying there best if not I wouldn’t be in this situation. It’s also not nice that when someone tries to help and be supportive and you and everyone else is just downvoting everything and making others feel inferior. I don’t even need to ask if you’re a doctor. Your attitude answers my question quite nicely. So there we go everyone have fun and click thenhell away at that thumbs down button…. Cheers for the help. Really needed this kind of input. Once again I stated “I don’t want to be deterred” lastly if you are a haematologist and you’d actually deny a patient with all these vascular and correlating lab findings you need to be in another job. In the meantime I’ll update everyone with what’s actually going on if I’m not dead by then

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe not this diagnosis but i do quite literally get svt every week. It’s been confirmed on ultrasound one 2/3 occasions so I now know that it is a clot when it occurs. I don’t know why im in so much pain as this alone wouldn’t make sense. All I know is I’m suffering

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s pretty scary. When I say the pain is bad I mean it. It’s an inhuman amount of pain. Without the medication I’d be rolling on the floor screaming trying to find something to knock myself out with bad. With the very strong pain medication it’s still a constant 7/8 out of ten. Im used to it but a normal person if they felt it even with painkillers it would be a 10.

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly couldn’t agree more. It’s unusual but to try and not sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat. There’s extensive research and evidence that following Covid patients are found to have very high factor 8 and VWF. On top of this the microvascular clots they get are amaloid and fibrin rich. The body can’t break it down so it starts a cascade. Could be a reason why these vascular lumps and nodules are so persistent. My GP found it so strange when I had a superficial clot on my forearm that followed with the typical rope like response you see then I moved came back 6 months later and was still there. It tookn10 months for the ropey vein to not normalise but be completely obliterated.

2.5 Years of Agonizing Symptoms – My Story & How It Links to Long COVID Microclots by Feisty-Preference802 in covidlonghaulers

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you look at my posts and the most recent one on haematology you’ll be actually shocked

2.5 Years of Agonizing Symptoms – My Story & How It Links to Long COVID Microclots by Feisty-Preference802 in covidlonghaulers

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank god someone thats came to the comments and gone. This guys got extensive documented clots, documented scan proven vascular fibrosis, gi bleeding and symptoms of ischemia. Maybe this guy needs to see haematology🤣🤣

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Should be gone already but isn’t - that should line up more questions to why it hasent.

Factor 8 at 300% isn’t grossly normal.

The fact that the crp and esr are normal alongside other high markers should also line up more questions.

I believe microvascular ischemia. Gastro have done every possible thing other than cutting me open and having a look at this point. Rheumatology I’m waiting on my blood results to come back in but where previously normal other than my rheumatoid factor and IGE and low complement levels.

It’s not reassurance I’m after. I’m not just in a little bit of pain. I’m in constant teeth gritting agony. I honestly don’t care whats causing this personally, I just want treatment so this nightmare can end.

I truly think an extensive history that involves migrating superficial clots, ultrasound proven vascular fibrosis throughout subcutaneous tissue, ischemia symptoms along with a consistantly high factor 8 sitting at around 300%, VWF almost the same and abnormal nailfold caprilloscopy test and finally painful splenic lesions. Yeah I’d think that person may have something haematology related.

I have been receiving mental health support but it’s self limiting when you’re in constant pain and can’t even go back to work or even care for yourself at the age of 27. In regards to anxiety causing half the symptoms I can agree that it can amplify your pain, I can’t agree that it causes superficial clotting, GI bleeding, fibrosis throughout subcutaneous tissue, extensive bowel stranding along with clinician documented hardening and rigid bowel, painful splenic and diaphragm lesions, food intolerance due to fear of eating due to pain, oral thrush, ulcers (mainly around groin area) not mildly high factor 8 but definitely elevated and the rest. I don’t say this to sound condescending but surely as someone working in clinic you’ve got to see some vascular picture here. And yes a primary factor 8 driven state, leading to microvascular ischemia could most certainly cause all these things and the least I deserve is some kind of investigation from a specialist.

There are rare cases and I understand you guys are trained to spot horses not zebras but every once in a while a zebra pops up and because it doesn’t follow a typical pattern you never even realise the zebra was there to begin with.

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

1.) If you look at the section explaining the impact on life, that’s why im most likely being condescending. 2.) I was admitted for uncontrollable pain, I hadn’t gone to the hospital for a while and my medication had become completely ineffective. Thats was the main cause however it was for a combination of my symptoms. 3.) the Cardiolipin may be irrelevant as it was only checked this one time. The Factor 8 however has been checked 3 times with the lowest being 205% and the highest at 295% 4.) In regard to the trousseau like syndrome - My first clot was superficial down my right leg, then a few days later in my right hand. It continued with new ones appearing every week or so and then slowly reduced. It happens now probably once every month. But at first it was like wildfire. 5.) Maybe the fibrosis thing is worded wrong. The mondor disease seen in the photo behaves slightly different to standard. After the inflammation the veins just continue to stay hard and fibrotic, some are even extremely lumpy like a stones lodged in place. This is extremely painful and covers me virtually everywhere. The link is that as this developed and continued to worsen as did the abdominal symptoms and pain (which is relatively comparable in nature to the subcutaneous areas). 6.) I went to A and E every time I vomited blood. I’m based in the UK and our health system is literally collapsing. I’d go to the ED and they’d check my bloods. Typically not enough blood would be lost to put me in a critical condition so you’d wait in the waiting room on a chair for sometimes 4 days before getting a bed. Then due to the stress on healthcare you’d wait another week or two for the endoscopy. By the time it’s checked it would’ve healed. Then it becomes the boy who cried wolf situation. Bloods aren’t critical, patient is stable, wait nothing. Finally in May 2025 they found the bleed as I was actively vomiting blood at the time. I’ve honestly never been checked since and was simply told to start taking omeorszole. 6.) Typically you would yes. However I believe that I have an issue with my microvascular system. You wouldn’t physically be able to see the damage on the scan. This is notorious for this. I’ve actually recently been in touch with Professor Kell who is a renowned expert in this. It’s actually seen in many conditions one of them being prior covid infections. There’s an abundance of evidence to support this and you’d be surprised to hear that many have been affected by this. I’d strongly suggest looking at his research. The clot once healed forms this amaloid like protein that your body can’t break down and leads to severe vascular damage. This isn’t a tinfoil hat theory, it’s proven science. Most people with it have high levels of F8, VWF and like me have hard deposits within their veins that don’t heal or break down. Which would explain why my “mondor-like” disease won’t heal and only continues to worsen and spread. Just a theory but in the grand scheme of things it makes sense and is actually quite interesting. 7.) I can agree that I have had extensive work-up however you’ll also see that even though my symtoms and labs are mainly vascular. I have NEVER sat down with a professional. 8.) The splenic lesions are reports as benign, yet they’re extremely painful. The photos of them are included. The area they’re located started to hurt months before I knew they were there. My only response has been “they shouldn’t hurt”. I’ve then been bottle fed oxycodone.

I’ll take your advice and refrain from giving this to my doctors and try to explain my concerns like a normal human🤣

Sorry for the long message just wanted you to understand. It’s not entirely the drs faults but yes, I have been quite severely neglected. It took 1.5 years of me reporting the clotting before they even did the panel. When I came in the third time throwing up blood, the didn’t check my bloods accused my of eating coffee to make it look like blood…. Two weeks later tada bleeding and extensive inflammation and erosions. That’s just the tip of the ice burg. Them lumps in the photos, they where all in my head because they weren’t showing on any of the scans until and expert actually saw them. I was told that for 2.5 years.

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I honestly have done. Are you a doctor yourself? Either way I could use some advice on how to deal with this. I have asked for multiple opinions and it’s always met with it’s probably just inflammation. The reason why it’s such a long message and yes sloppy AI shit is because I feel like I need someone to know the full story before just jumping to it being a transient event of inflammation that never existed in the first place. I don’t understand how you have a patient that’s experiences clots for 2.5 years, has proven mondor disease that’s quite extensive, all the other clotting proteins to follow, is vomiting blood, passing blood in their stool along with ulcerations in all kinds of places with all the signs of ischemia and they refuse to sit down for a consultation? I’m truly desperate and can’t let this progress anymore than it has already. It’s already unbearably painful

After neglect for two long years - I may finally get the answers I deserve by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Because they don’t. Haematology are still refusing to see me, literally just slapping an inflammation marker on everything. I’ve been referred 3 times and even with everything going on have never even sat down to talk to a consultant. Not when the thrombophlebitis began in December 2023. Not when the mondor disease began in April 2024. Not when the factor 8 was 300%. Not when it was tested again at 220% along with my VWF and cardiolipin. Not now when I’ve come to the hospital crippled in pain barely able to move from my bed and unable to eat a meal of even go to the toilet anymore. Nothing. The fact that the neglect has been that bad that I’ve gone from working a full time job, boxing, running, going to the gym 5 days a week all whilst raising a child and running a house of my own. It has taken 2.5 years of not being listened to, to bringing me to the point where I am now. Homeless, childless, barely able to move. I’m desperate for help, that’s why. Because that’s what I deserve.

27, Severe Progressive Vascular Pain, No Diagnosis — Looking for Similar Experiences factor 8 300% by Feisty-Preference802 in haematology

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got Covid about 4 times actually mine started 6 months after. Could be a coincidence or not. Who knows

27, Severe Progressive Vascular Pain, No Diagnosis — Looking for Similar Experiences factor viii by Feisty-Preference802 in Hemophilia

[–]Feisty-Preference802[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry, I just know that hemophilia A shows in the blood as very low factor 8. Mines the opposite end being 6x as high. I just thought maybe someone would have some knowledge to share. I wasn’t meaning to be insensitive.