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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Meredith Clark

YouTuber iJustine opens up about life-threatening blood clot that left her ‘basically bedridden’

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Justine Ezarik, known to her YouTube fans as iJustine, has opened up about her experience with a life-threatening blood clot that left her bedridden for four days.

In a recent interview with TODAY, Ezarik – who has more than seven million subscribers on YouTube – detailed the symptoms she experienced before she was sent to the hospital with a blood clot. The 38-year-old influencer first noticed numbing in her arm, which soon became swollen and turned purple. When she went to the emergency room on 1 April, she learned that she had deep vein thrombosis – a type of blood clot that forms in the deep veins – which caused her arm to numb.

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