beetlemaniac
The Living Force
I've been doing autohemotherapy on my own for 5 sessions so far. Today would be my sixth, except that something strange happened. The blood I drew had a lot of clots. It was very hard to pull the syringe to draw blood and it got stuck when I tried to push out the excess blood through the butterfly needle, though some of the clots did come out. I didn't end up using the blood because there were just too many clots, and the syringe kept getting stuck. I ejected the entire draw into the sink, collected the clots and put them on tissue paper and have taken a photo of them as well. There were quite a few clots of varying sizes. I was amazed and a little scared to see all those clots, I wasn't sure why they came about, and whether the clot started in the tube or it was from the vein. In between the blood draw the needle had come out and I had to reinsert it. Could these clots be coming from somewhere other than the vein due to the needle being moved halfway? I doubt it, because of the amount of resistance I had from the syringe throughout the entire draw. This is the first time this has ever happened for me, I've had my blood drawn quite a few times before, not only for AHT but for blood tests and donations.
I found an article talking about hypercoagulability - I don't know if that's what's going on. It could also be that I'm dehydrated, but I think that since these were clots, there has to be something else involved as well. I'll be upping my fluid intake though. I drink a lot of salt water, so I don't know if that could be a factor as well.
I hope I could get some feedback, @Gaby, or anyone else?
I found an article talking about hypercoagulability - I don't know if that's what's going on. It could also be that I'm dehydrated, but I think that since these were clots, there has to be something else involved as well. I'll be upping my fluid intake though. I drink a lot of salt water, so I don't know if that could be a factor as well.
I hope I could get some feedback, @Gaby, or anyone else?