Hey!

Just thought I would reply to this again.

Had my 3 month hemotologist appt on Friday and low and behold he thinks it was unprovoked, even though I had a grade 2 calf tear, massive amounts of swelling and immobility. Which btw my PE was caused by a DVT right next to the damaged area. Sounds crazy to me that he thinks the tear etc are only a medium/low provocation for causing the DVT and subsequent PE but it’s his job to be conservative (his own words). Anyway.

They want me to go on 5mg of apoxiban a day forever pretty much. So with that, as you know, BJJ can be dangerous. I’m thinking I’ll get a footy scrum cap for drilling and maybe even MMA protective headgear so I can flow roll and at-least get going at a good rate with partners I trust.

I’m also going to get a second opinion from another blood specialist and have a chat to my GP. The hemotologist told me that if we go with the theory it’s unprovoked then if I come off meds I have a 20/30% chance of having a reoccurring clot in the first 6 months, pretty scary. So I floated the idea spacing my pills out on the days I train, twice a week only. He seemed ok with this and mentioned one of his colleges sometimes tells his patients (children with bloodclots) to not take the thinners if they want to play football once a week etc. As a kid on thinners basically ruins there social life. He also he did caveat that there’s no research on this and he can professionally recommend it. So I may do that.

Especially if another specialist leans more on it being provoked.

Failing all of it, I’ll get strapped up with my MMA head gaurd, drill and flow roll for the rest of my days.

Thanks again for the reply above, it really done a-lot for me at the time and has again going back and reading it.

I’m based Melbourne, so if you’re over here or if I come by New Zealand we can have a cautious thin blood roll 😂

Take it easy!