[Heaven's Night]

I'll write this anecdote here as there's talk about PM and possible DVT risk.

I fit at least two criteria of possibly elevated risks taken from the recent post. Firstly, back then I used to smoke quite a bit, now thankfully over two years without. Secondly, I have genetically super thick blood. It carries oxygen extremely well, even large wounds stop bleeding very quickly and my hemoglobin levels are like from a biology textbook without anything special, just healthy enough food and exercise. Also I have a heart which acts up quite easily, this also is a genetic trait, both of these I have inherited from my fathers side. (Dad has been on blood thinners after a stroke scare and he likely had a minor blood clot in his brain which luckily melted away on its own, but that was crazy, he lost his close term memory completely for a day and still remembers nothing of that day!)

So the genetic disposition towards possible DVT from PM exists. Note that when I got the symptoms, I had been less than a year on PM, mostly on 1000-2000mg doses, I was super fit, working constuction, drumming riding bike, lifting weights, eating healthy and so on, I was thirty six years old back then. So age and physical fitness might have nothing to do with possible risk factors.

Reasoning for these warnings and moderate dosing are very sound and based on lived experience and there's absolutely no sense in playing around with luck on these things as a mistake might turn fatal.