Objective To explore the ill experience of patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT),and supply reference for making corresponding intervention.Methods The qualitative phenomenological study method was adopted in this study.Self-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 patients with deep vein thrombosis and data were collected for analysis.Results After repeated refinement of the collected data,the early ill experience of deep vein thrombosis could be extracted as 4 topics.Conclusions According to the ill experience of patients with DVT,nurses can provide targeted intervention for such diseases to instruct clients to rehabilitate rapidly and improve the patients' quality of life.