A YOUNG woman claims she nearly died after mistaking deadly blood clots for a pulled muscle. Holly Whitehall says docs spotted the killer clusters just 10 days before a dream trip to Australia , and warned her she wouldn't have made it home from the six-month trip had she boarded the flight. The 22-year-old, from Nottingham, first felt her left hip aching in October last year but she blamed it on going to the gym too much .
When the pain grew increasingly worse, the concerned fitness fanatic decided to visit her GP and was advised to go to A&E after medics suspected an ovarian cyst . But further tests at Nottingham City Hospital revealed Holly had multiple deadly blood clots in her lungs, stomach and left leg. Holly, who was excited about her trip to explore Australia, said doctors told her the blood clots would have killed her before she even returned home.
The paralegal claims she's "lucky to be alive" and that doctors told her the clots were a direct result of taking the combined contraceptive pill . Holly, who had tried three different combined pills since early 2022, underwent two surgeries to remove the clots and says she will now remain on blood-thinning medication for the rest of her life. She's warning others about the risks associated with the combined pill as she believes she delayed treatment by brushing off her symptoms.
Holly, said: "I just got this hip pain at the top of my hip all of a sudden but I go to the gym quite a lot so I thought I'd just pulled a muscl.
