{"id":847,"date":"2009-03-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-why-you-should-never-ignore-a-sore-leg\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T00:00:00","slug":"weight-loss-why-you-should-never-ignore-a-sore-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-why-you-should-never-ignore-a-sore-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Ignore a Sore, Swollen Leg (Especially If You're on a Diet)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Shaun Chavis<\/a>
Obesity is related to a variety of chronic diseases including heart disease, diabetes<\/a>, and even cancer. But being overweight or obese doubles your risk of developing another condition—deep vein thrombosis (DVT)<\/a>, or blood clots. If these clots move into your lungs, they cause pulmonary embolism (PE)<\/a>, which claims more lives in the United States every year than breast cancer and AIDS combined<\/a>. You're probably thinking that won't happen to me<\/em>, and I thought the same thing until I was stuck in a hospital for nine days—without any dramatic warning.<\/p>\n

$\"leg-pain-150.jpg\"$ leg-pain-150.jpg<\/span> , but who thinks the fine print–warning about blood clots will ever apply to them? Even worse, at the end of the week, I got on a plane and flew halfway across the country, hobbling on my sore leg through three airports.<\/p>\n

One morning the pain in my calf got worse, and, mysteriously, my thigh started hurting. A trip to the nearest emergency room, an ultrasound of my left leg, and a CT scan of my chest confirmed I had a blood clot in my calf, one in my thigh, and some small blood clots in my lungs. The cause? My birth control and<\/em> my weight.<\/p>\n

I'm lucky—my clot hurt. But many people don't know they have DVT until the blood clots move into their lungs and make it hard to breathe.<\/p>\n

If I'd waited a day or two longer, the clot in my thigh would have moved and blocked my pulmonary artery. It could have killed me.<\/p>\n

Now, with a newly developed fear of flying<\/a>, I've also made a few lifestyle changes. I take aspirin every day to prevent future clots and have stopped taking hormonal birth control. The convenience I was trying to add to my life has now made things complicated! I'm sensitive to nonoxynol-9, the chemical found in latex condoms and spermicides. Left with only a few options, I'm now using lambskin condoms. But reliable birth control is more important than ever. The chances of developing blood clots increase during pregnancy, and a woman with a history of DVT will need anticoagulants throughout her pregnancy and afterward.<\/p>\n

So let me be your example—in fact, let's be examples for each other. March is National DVT Awareness Month, and March 10 is National DVT Screening Day. Check your risk online<\/a>, and learn more from the Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis at www.preventdvt.org<\/a>. Have you had a health scare or condition you think other people should be aware of?<\/p>\n

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