I will be undergoing morcellation in a few days.

It's 5 years if you have a risk factor for tetanus (like stepping on sharp rusty things or getting scratched by cats). 10 years otherwise. Or so I've been told.

It's kind of like a combination of susceptibility and a trigger. Susceptibility is usually genetic, but most people who are genetically susceptible won't ever get a clot. You need a trigger as well, which can be a flight or hormonal birth control or recovery from surgery or something else.

I'm also 31 and got diagnosed with one last weekend. My doctor said that one DVT, with a well-understood cause (in my case a flight, in your case I suspect they will say the birth control) isn't really a permanent problem. You and I will just have to be more careful at high-risk times.

Yeah, I mean, I need something to make my periods lighter, so that may have been what he was thinking. We'd been hoping that the pill would do that, and now it is no longer an option for me (sadly for now, neither is Mirena due to a fibroid). I think I'm being a bit too sensitive and he probably could have been a…

Thanks for the advice. As it turns out, I can't be on Mirena because of a fibroid, and copper is definitely not an option for me. I'm already doubling up with tampons and pads and changing the tampons every hour for two days a month. I think my doc is going to try to scrape down some of the fibroid so maybe then…

I ended up spending last Friday in the ER with a deep vein thrombosis. I had to stop the hormonal birth control that I had just started (started so soon that it couldn't have even caused the clot). My boyfriend has been generally very supportive.