I have had a couple of friends attempt to donate blood recently who were turned away because the machines weren’t able to draw from them.
Tubing issues were blamed first.
Eventually, the staff told them they couldn’t donate because the flow was being blocked by clots.
In both arms.
These people are all under the age of 35, by the way. And were under the impression they had no health issues.
This just doesn't ring true to me.
My brother in law went into surgery back in 2018 to have a benign tumor removed from his back. They told him to keep walking and stay active after the surgery so that he didn't form any blood clots.
Instead, he went home and sat around playing video games for a week and died of a single blood clot that got to his heart. If you've got blood clots running around in your veins that can stop a blood draw, then those clots should kill you when they hit your heart.
Maybe a real doctor, not a pharma shill, can chime in and correct me, but I thought that having ANY blood clots was damn near a death sentence if you didn't treat them immediately with blood thinners.
So incredibly sorry for your loss.
I honestly thought the same. The one friend announced the ordeal in a video recording. And was planning to try again despite being sent home.
It makes zero sense to me how this wasn’t a bigger deal than, “oh well, you can’t donate today.”
If it was me, I’d be calling my PCP pronto.