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Thats the exact opposite of what I try to accomplish on this board. I want people to feel more confident and safe by knowing the right way to do things, limited to within my scope of knowledge. The likelihood is based on vasuclar structure, trauma to the vein, factors such as dehydration, clotting factors in the blood (postsurgery especially) and periods of immobility. The most likely person to get DVT is a bedridden patient after surgery B/C they have the increased clotting factor and are in bed without moving. Clot will form when the blood is not moving. Blood is moved against gravity back to the heart in the veins by one way valves and the calf pump. When you walk the constriction of the calf squeezes blood up through the one way valves back to the heart, so it follows if you dont walk around ex. A long air flight, then you can be at a small risk. That skater than won the olympics in Salt lake got one(the one with th big nose). The immobility and dehydration with airflight coupled together increases your chances, likewise increase clotting factor and immobilty after surgery increases risk. So basically what Im saying is dont combine risk factors. Stay hydrated, injecting into the calf can cause 1) trauma to the vein and 2) increase clotting factor to that region. A small risk, but the anatomy of the calf is that the veins are paired, with branches connecting the two "tubes". Picture a ladder like structure. Those crossmembers linking those veins are most likely to begin to fill with clot. Then they just grow. People will notice discomfort, swelling downstream from the clot, redness and warmth (warm-vein blocked, cold-artery blocked completely diff). People are given coumadin to dissolve these so if they are caught before they enter the deep vein system even after, then usually no problem. Some people are predisposed to this and take low dose coumadin for preventionmanickx said:
The bottom line is this: just dont inject into the calf b/c of its anatomy. Other recommended injectin sites are fine. This is not to scare people, but to provide information and reason as to why I give the advice that I do. Im sur lots of people will have absolutely no problem with the calf site inject, but this thread was about someone injecting 3ccs in the calf region which could have compressed certain veins causing blood stagnation. I think that is a bad idea and the small risk should be avoided.
