lizi
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The thing that makes me think DVT is that it comes about when your legs are inactive and in a position below your heart, not like when you are lying in bed. It's very common to develop clots in the legs on flights and long car drives because the pumping mechanisms in our veins (skeletal muscle pumps) are inactive during those times.
The pins and needles sensation is probably from the poor circulation at those times when your legs are forced to be inactive and in a dependent position (below your heart), and possibly not receiving blood circulation in the area where this possible thrombus is. I rarely do this, but I'm urging you to see the Dr. This is not something that you should fuck with. If it turns into an embolism - which happens fairly easily, the clot just breaks free or part breaks off - it's likely to lodge somewhere vital because all of our blood runs through the heart, and lungs, and a great part goes up to the brain. When that happens it's literally minutes to death or serious injury. I've heard enough stories from people that have had embolisms and treated them in the hospital to be truly frightened of what they can do.
Over the summer we learned mechanical methods of physical therapy and one of the contraindications for almost all of them was if someone had a thrombus. Because you don't want it to move, so no treating an area with a thrombus with ANYTHING.
At the very least you are probably having trouble with circulation. You need to know this so you can address it and then you can prevent DVT from occurring. If it's the nerve thing that's something you also need to know, although probably less serious. All in all you need to know what's going on here.
To anyone reading this, please prevent clots from forming when you are flying or driving for long periods of time by doing ankle pumps - this is a motion very similar to stepping on the gas when driving. Move your feet at the ankle up and down quickly in a set of ten, three times, every hour at least, every half hour is better. It activates the skeletal muscle pumps in the legs so that blood circulates back up to the heart and doesn't pool in the veins. 
< Message edited by lizi -- 8/23/2012 9:16:08 AM >
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Okay...real question....serious shit...need advice.... - 
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