A YOUNG mum has shared a photo of a 1cm mark on her leg that could have killed her. Hanah Thornton revealed that her doctor initially dismissed the mark as a skin infection , but it was later identified as a 60cm blood clot . “It was very close to being life or death,” the 22-year-old dental assistant said.
Hanah from Missouri, US, claimed doctors have since told her the clot had been caused by her contraceptive pill . Before the red mark emerged, the Hanah started experiencing leg pain , which she brushed off as a minor sports injury. "I'm a pretty active person and I do a lot of walking and go to the gym so I thought it was just muscle pain so I didn't think too much into it,” she said.
Read more on blood clot However, over the next few days, the pain intensified, and the mum-of-one suddenly noticed a red, "hot" patch on her right thigh that began to spread up her leg. "It was very hot to touch and very tender to the point that I could barely walk on it," she recalled. She went to see her hospital, where a doctor diagnosed her with cellulitis , a skin infection, and sent her home with antibiotics .
Still in pain, Hannah visited another hospital the next day, where she received an ultrasound which revealed she had a blood clot in her leg. Most read in Health The clot travelled 60cm from the bottom of her knee and scaled all the way up to her groin area. "I was pretty scared and upset at this point as I had gone to the hospital the night before," she said.
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