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What Causes Heavy Bleeding From A Small Cut?
Question: I was putting in green fence posts with tennis shoes last Wed. nite, & the point on the post went thru my shoe bottom & deeply into my instep. It took a couple of minutes to get it to mostly stop bleeding - except for my trek into the house. It didn't bleed like a normal cut, flowed pretty good. I put Hydrogen peroxide on it, Neosporin & bandaid. The next few days it was really swelled & I couldn't touch an area of about 3" across. It was a pretty solid lump, & I wondered if a lot of it was blood pooling in it as well as the swelling from the cut. I've had blood clots after surgery 2 different times, so now I'm wondering if this could be a problem now, as I'm now having a cough, light headedness, & out of breath with doing even walking a bit. These were symptoms I had the last time when I had blood clots in all quadrants of both lungs.
Brief Answer:
CT scan of chest with contrast
Detailed Answer:
Hi
I have gone through your history and picture you have uploaded
Since you are having history of blood clot and symptoms of cough and out of breath while walking i would advise you to do a CT scan of chest with contrast to rule out any clots in your lungs
Regards
DR DE
CT scan of chest with contrast
Detailed Answer:
Hi
I have gone through your history and picture you have uploaded
Since you are having history of blood clot and symptoms of cough and out of breath while walking i would advise you to do a CT scan of chest with contrast to rule out any clots in your lungs
Regards
DR DE
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Yogesh D
Would the blood gas wrist vein area test be the first step before the CT?
Brief Answer:
D dimer test
Detailed Answer:
Hi
A blood test will be done from your wrist vein to see the presence of D Dimer before the CT scan is done
Presence of high levels of it in your blood will suggest blood clots in your lungs
If you have no more clarifications then please rate the answer and close the thread
Regards
DR DE
D dimer test
Detailed Answer:
Hi
A blood test will be done from your wrist vein to see the presence of D Dimer before the CT scan is done
Presence of high levels of it in your blood will suggest blood clots in your lungs
If you have no more clarifications then please rate the answer and close the thread
Regards
DR DE
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Shanthi.E
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