Gym fanatic, 22, thought her hip pain was a pulled muscle - but scans revealed blood clots which doctors say were caused by the contraceptive pill and could have killed her Doctors discovered she had several blood clots in her lungs, stomach and left leg READ MORE: Mother thought she had the flu...
in fact it was incurable cancer By Rebecca Whittaker For Mailonline Published: 12:11 BST, 17 June 2024 | Updated: 14:23 BST, 17 June 2024 e-mail 85 shares 80 View comments A gym fanatic claims she almost died after hip pain she dismissed as a pulled muscle turns out to be a symptom of blood clots all over her body. Holly Whitehall first felt her left hip aching in October last year, but she just blamed it on going to the gym too much. The 22-year-old paralegal from Nottingham , Britain, decided to visit her doctor when the pain got increasingly worse and was advised to go to accident and emergency after medics suspected an ovarian cyst.
But further tests at Nottingham City Hospital revealed she actually had multiple deadly blood clots in her lungs, stomach and left leg. Ms Whitehall says doctors spotted the killer clusters only 10 days before she was set to fly to Australia — a dream six-month trip that doctors say could have killed her before making it home. Holly Whitehall first felt her left hip aching in October last year, but she just blamed it on going to the gym too much The 22-year-old decided to visit her GP when the pain got increasingly worse and was advised to go to A.
