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Factor 5 Leiden. I clot easily. So mini strokes. Turns out tiny clots don’t show up on MRIs.

Very interested in this. So your c-reactive protein, d-dimer (sp?), etc etc showed negative? How did you find the clots? When you say "tiny", in medical terms do you mean mili or micro meters (I think that's right).

You might like the #1 book on Amazon under cardiology currently. Its thesis is cholesterol has nothing to do with heart diseases, its all in the clots. Good detail of the clotting process and relatively understandable.

Had a Pulmary embolism. Was gasping for air and coughing up flecks of blood. At the Er the Blood work was perfect. D-dimer, everything. Genetic testing came back positive later on. So they put on blood thinners. A few days later my dementia was gone. Was solving complex programming problems with ease once more.

Every time I try and go off them all the symptoms come back. So it was this that micro-clots was determined.

Also when drawing blood nurses kept complaining that my blood clots to fast.

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