Strictly Come Dancing Amy Dowden reveals new blood clot: 'I've had another nightmare this week'

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1 Dec 2023, 13:14

Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden has opened up about her latest health worry and the 'nightmare' week she's had after a blood clot was found on her lung.

The dancer told fans that doctors were worried that the clot might be moving towards her heart, but she insisted: "Lucky enough, it's not."

The 33-year-old Welsh Strictly star revealed she had breast cancer in May and finished chemotherapy just six weeks ago.

She said in a recent Instagram Story: "I've had another nightmare this week. Just seems to be never ending.

"I've got a blood clot on my lung, obviously because it's so close to my heart that's a risk. They were really worried that the clot was travelling to my heart or affecting my heart.

"Lucky enough, it's not - you can see I've had drips everywhere, on my hands a lot," Dowden said.

"Obviously this is a shock and it just means now - I'm really gutted about this - I was on blood thinners anyway from the blood clots in my arm and I've still got then a blood clot on my lung, and obviously because it's so close to the heart it's a risk...

"But now I'm taking tablets twice a day and I'm now on the blood filling injections which I've had before and they're not nice.

"So I'm on them for the foreseeable and another scan in a few weeks. I've just been really frustrated, I had lots planned this week, voiceovers, just getting my life back and it just seems to be - like with my foot - soon as I get it back, something comes along.

"I think when the oncology nurse said this would come and came and sat next to my bed... you know, you get into your head that once you finish chemo that'll be it but you learn it really isn't.

"And there's chemo still in my body for six weeks since chemo and it's three weeks today since I finished chemo.

"So yeah, I just wanted to update you all but I'm home now after a few nights in hospital and I've got the (Christmas) tree up.

"Just had another rubbish, rubbish week and I'm really frustrated because like I guess I was a bit deluded, I thought my hair would start growing back way quicker, and looking at photos from like a few weeks ago... I look like I have more hair than I do now.

"But again I've got to wait for this chemo to come out of my system, and I seem to keep losing my eyebrows and eyelashes, the ones I've got left are just going.

"So that's really frustrating and getting me down, but hey I'm home from hospital! That's the main thing and hopefully now that's it, I think I've had enough."

Get better soon, Amy.