My name is Kayleigh, I am 25 years old, 5 years ago this year in July, I was diagnosed with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. I had been suffering from major headaches and feeling sick for weeks!
I had just been on a girls holiday and I came home feeling sick and having excruciating headaches, I thought I had just come back dehydrated and so did the hospital when I had gone in to get a check up. They carried on and kept getting worse over the next few days of seeing the doctors for the first time. But then one morning I woke up and my mum was asking me questions which I should know such as what’s my own name and I didn’t have a clue. This is when I got taken straight to the doctors, they always asked me the same questions and still was unable to answer, this is when an ambulance was rang urgently! When I got to the hospital I was taken straight for a CT and MRI scan. It had come back I had a blood clot in my veins that had caused my vein to pop and cause a massive bleed on my brain. If I hadn’t have gone in the day I did they said I wouldn’t be here anymore, that first day I was in they suspected I was not going to make it through the night so asked all my family to come up and see me. I was then taken to Preston hospital the day after where I was in for nearly a month, whilst in hospital I also had a massive seizure. I will forever be grateful for everything they did, I am still under my neurologist and have yearly check ups, when I got told what caused it I was shocked that they think it was the combined pill.
It is important that people know the signs of thrombosis and also the dangers of the medications that we may take.
I am now fully recovered from having people come see me to ensure I was recovering well and going through seeing a therapist to help with ptsd but I am now fully recovered. I am going to be sorting hopefully a fundraiser to spread the risk and word of thrombosis to everyone especially young people.