@LocalRachel 4/ Anxiety can also contribute to raised levels https://t.co/KmN4adByNY. This may also explain chest pains? It’s great you are getting what would be the treatment in the very unlikely worse case scenario so you are in good hands now regardless. Hope all goes well!
@LocalRachel 2/ and that the 500 is just the chosen cut-off but doesn’t take a lot of context into account https://t.co/p7CDXBxSeQ A d-dimer of 600 and 5000 go down the same clinical decision tree route.
@LocalRachel 1/ I had a very similar experience in January 2023. I had pain in my left calf and had just been on a long haul flight so injection of heparin while I waited for scan the next day. No clots found in leg and have been fine ever since. Dr said lots of things can raise d-dimer
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