Recovery is a weird word. The anxiety you face after you have one can be nearly as crippling as what you went through in the first place (this can probably be said for anything high trauma though). What I can say is that you learn a lot about blood in general after you have had one and things like Vitamin K, green food, etc. It did take 2 ultrasounds on the leg to get an OK to come off thinners, but I still feel there is a window of unknown which healthy and unhealthy people go through in the clotting of blood that is severely under treated and was a great case of where knowledge would have saved a trip to the hospital. I don't in anyway say do-it-yourself-at-home kits with ultrasound and machine learning algorithms should replace medical advice but more and more people are dying from blood clots (whether it be food related, environment, clothes(?)) that it warrants a better look - and I am up for anything non medicinal - especially ones which can cause excessive bleeding like current thinners. If I had a friend who had swollen calf muscles and pain and told them to try something at an urgent care facility to determine a clot was present and it was low cost for all parties involved ... win/win.