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[stable] 07/12/2001 22:35

Bones
When I left the venue I could not raise a taxi, so I took a rickshaw, I was so frozen when I arrived at paddington and then the train was ready to
leave so i had no time to thaw. It was easier to stand than sit.

[bones] 07/12/2001 22:29

Yes, wise words and a timely warning. Hope it all goes well Royce. Just shows we don't know when our ticket might come up.

All the best
Bones

[losos] 07/12/2001 22:25

Royce
Thanks for posting this, those early symptons rang a bit of a bell with me & I've recently started swimming again and walking more. Luckily I'm not glued to a screen all day but I do spend more time in front of one than I maybe should.

[dodddy] 07/12/2001 22:08

hope u get get well soon royce
all the best me old bearish mate :)
regards
dodddy

[alchemy] 07/12/2001 21:02

royce

No wonder you were not at the do today - was looking you up to say thanks re some advice at Matworms.
Well what to say? first good luck second thanx for posting this...
And, as Ruth says, more exercise ........off to Shepherds Bush' new gym and onto the rower....

best for full speedy recovery

[ruth] 07/12/2001 20:29

Hi Royce,wishing you well,certainly does make you think,i too spend 9 hours a day sat here trading,like you said the only time i too get up is to nip to the loo,or to make a cuppa,has definately shook me up to the extent that i will do more exercise after hours,Best wishes Ruth

[viren] 07/12/2001 20:16

Hi Royce,
Hope you are feeling better, maybe you should consider yoga when you have recovered more fully. Try Yoga & Health mag should give details of how to get in touch with any center near you.
Best of luck with your health.

[jumpin] 07/12/2001 20:06

royce,
I am very sorry to hear of your terrible experience and very glad you are out of hospital now.
Thank you for sharing the experience so as to encourage others to take more exercise and breaks from trading and staring at computer screens.
Wishing you well,
G

[royce] 07/12/2001 18:18

Dear fellow day traders

a word of warning, DVT or deep vein thrombosis which for the layman is blood clots; newspapers call it economy class syndrome. It happens when you sit for hours, the blood thickens causing swelling and then blocked veins

people at major risk are people who:-

smoke
have high blood pressure
family history
physical inactivity
high cholesterol
obesity
high alcohol intake

so having read this far you think to yourself thats not me why should this bother me thats what i thought I will tell you my story as a warning to everybody else.

2 months ago i would swim every day, day trade between 7am and 5pm, 5 days a week, weekends 4or 5 hours checking internet sites/research etc. I do not smoke, I do not have high blood pressure my cholesterol level is 4.2(national average 4.8) im not obese have no family history do not consume large amounts of alcohol.

6 weeks ago started to get pains in my knee cap, thought this was a pulled muscle, went to the doctors was given cream to rub on, took aspirins as a pain killer pain seemed to go away was also starting to notice lack of brain power and tiredness.

5 weeks ago pain continued to return to my leg muscle taking aspirin seemed to cure this gave up swimming as too tired trading starting to get affected. Number of trades dropping off.

4 weeks ago pain starting again in my leg, I feel more tired becoming less mobile taking the weekend off to rest, just sitting watching TV. Tired before lunch falling asleep in the afternoon in front of the computer. Number of day trades dropping, brain struggling feeling run down feels like i need a holiday.

3 weeks ago out of breath climbing the stairs pain in the legs now moving to the groin, hot and cold sweats, go to see the GP again with a long list of my ailments have blood, urine, prostate tests and chest x-ray told to come back in 5 days for results.

2 weeks ago go to see GP now out of breath just walking across car park and it brought my pulse rate to 140. GP examines me again x-ray urine everything OK but blood pressure low, pulse very high. He is not happy at all sends me straight to hospital was connected to an ecg machine machine it immediately says that I have had a heart attack. Rushed into cardiac intensive care placed on oxygen wired up injected with various drugs etc. For those chartists out there my charts looked like a profit warning.

13 days ago now in quite a bad way specialists have worked out that as my heart has not released a specific enzyme I have not damaged it, various tests all day from which i never left the bed they were all brought to me eventually they discover i have 24 blood clots on my lungs and they then gave me dambusting drugs to clear my veins and thin my blood.

1 week ago can now breath without oxygen recovering well have slight heart murmur told my breathing will continue to get better but will never be 100% again.

So why? research is still going into DVT i was interviewed by 6 different specialists all eager in researching this new condition they was amazed that I could sit 10 hours in front of a computer only to get up to get a cup of coffee. Is this you?

Do i walk? no just to the car Do regularly excercise? no, not in the winter. Working from home you tend to decrease in physical activity I was told in the hospital that i was lucky that i had a strong heart and that it was able to survive what i had put it through.

In conclusion this may not be you if I was reading this I would think fool did he not know what was goign on. I thought i was clever and knew my body well but when this hit it was quick, how could you ever get something that was supposed to be to do with flying in aeroplanes obvously it's to do with inactivity with day trading the brain may be going but the body isn't and if the body is not going the blood does not get enough oxygen the brain slows down and from there it is a slippery slope.

BE WARNED
royce

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