I’m writing this for my fiancé, he doesn’t have Reddit but was seeking some knowledge on his disease. He was diagnosed with PAD at 29 years old, it started in his left leg. At that time he sought out multiple opinions and it was determined that it was best to just see what happens, eventually his body did reroute the blood flow and his blood flow in his left leg has improved. Fast forward a couple years and he starts developing symptoms in his right leg, it was a downhill spiral and it happened very fast. Long story short, he was essentially getting pretty much zero blood flow, his blockage starts at the bend of his knee and goes down to his ankle almost, a stent wasn’t an option, so his vascular surgeon wanted to try a bypass (he wasn’t sure if it would be successful) the bypass was a success, until this last June he woke up one day and he had some pain in the knee area where his graft started. The pain traveled and his intuition told him something wasn’t right, so we see the vascular surgeon and he does tests and determines that the graft is blocked. His blood flow has dropped down to a moderate range, (60 percent) his vascular surgeon didn’t have any suggestions and basically said to come back when the pain gets unbearable and they’ll see what his options are, but it seems likely that amputation is the next option. He is on warfarin indefinitely, we have no clue as to why he developed this disease, especially being 29 at the time he was diagnosed. It turned our world upside down because he had to give up his contracting job and go on disability. We just want to know if there is any natural things we can try to prolong the next step, right now he manages pretty well, but we wanted to hear suggestions on ways to manage/cope with it. Any advice is greatly appreciated! We recently got engaged and he really wants to have both of his legs when we get married ❤️
Hello smart and kind people!
I believe that smoking is a risk factor for both conditions and angiography will show segmental involvement for both. And toe necrosis can be seen in both too?? So how do you differentiate them?
Thanks!
Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ10]
This bill was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Ways and Means which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
3 cosponsors are on those committees.
My dad (74) just had toes and half of a foot amputated due to PAD. He has no risk factors except genetics and having subpar doctors that failed to diagnose it until it got to this point. Has anyone dealt with this? I’m wondering if there’s a chance he’ll bounce back and become a Martin Crane type or begin slowly circling the drain in a downward spiral.
