In this post, I would like to draw your attention to an important, yet undeservedly neglected topic. In chronic women's disease - especially endometriosis - it is common to have one surgery after another and/or to take strong hormone-containing drugs, birth control pills, for many years without a break.
They don't provide a complete cure, but they can provide symptomatic relief - in many cases they really do make life more bearable, with fewer absences from work and a better quality of life. However, you cannot live on the pill for life, and symptoms return with renewed vigour within a few months of stopping the pill.
In addition, there is the problem of constant surgery and hormone pills.
This puts affected women at increased risk of thrombosis. If you're now sighing with relief, I have to disappoint you: it's not just a problem for the elderly! Taking the contraceptive pill alone increases the risk considerably, and every operation puts extra strain on your body, not to mention the fact that you have to lie down and rest after operations, so you don't move around as much and can easily get a stroke.
You should also be even more vigilant if any of the following predisposing factors apply to you, as vasoconstriction and then complete blockage of the vessel is a complex process. In addition to genetic predisposition, high blood pressure, stress, a sedentary lifestyle, an unhealthy diet and certain chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes also play a role.
What can you do to prevent it?
- Move as much as possible, make sport part of your everyday life
- Put down your cigarettes today!!!
- Drink plenty of fluids
- If you have had surgery, take blood thinner injections,
- and get up as soon as you can and start walking down the hospital corridor!
- While lying on the hospital bed, do light deep vein exercises, ankle circles, spastic-pipe leg stretches,
- feel free to ask the hospital physiotherapist for help!
- Consider what is more beneficial, whether you really need hormone-containing medicines. It's your body, your responsibility what happens to it.
- Avoid fatty foods, cut down on animal-based foods and avoid refined carbohydrates.
- Eat plenty of vegetables, fruit and whole grains!
- Eat pomegranates, red grapes! The vitamin K content of pomegranate regulates blood clotting, and the seeds of red grapes strengthen blood vessel walls. It is also important to get enough vitamin C.
Warning signs:
The complaint occurs in the area where the vasoconstriction is most significant within the body.
If the lower limbs are affected, typical complaints are leg pain that increases with walking, leg cramps, cold feet. Symptoms of coronary artery stenosis - sharp, stabbing chest pain, arrhythmia, shortness of breath - are suggestive of a heart attack. If the neck veins are affected, the blood supply to the brain is disturbed, with typical symptoms of dizziness, visual disturbance, tinnitus.
When the cerebral blood vessels are affected, there is a sudden onset of very severe headaches that cannot be relieved with painkillers, often accompanied by neurological symptoms - double vision, weakness on one side, etc. But beware: not necessarily. In my case, sinus thrombosis was characterised only and exclusively by very severe, unrelieved headaches.
Take care of yourself and make responsible decisions about your own body!
Nóra Árvai
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