Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
Do I need the "all clear" from my dr to start exercising again or can I just start? I want to start running and biking again as I'm finding I need exercise to up my energy levels and I use it to calm myself when stressed or needing "me" time
Also will it effect my inr levels?
Also will it effect my inr levels?
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Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
Check with your doc, but most of us got the ok to do at least light exercise right after our PEs. It may be noted in your hospital discharge papers that you can exercise, or if it says something like resume normal activities. I was walking, slowly because I had a DVT as well, once i got home from the hospital. Nothing crazy, just brief little walks, and then you just start slowly building up to more and more.
Exercise is important and I think it can can really help your physical and mental recovery. Laying around too much makes it that much harder to get back in the swing of things . You need to build back up some muscle, some stamina, some breath capacity. And yeah, it helps with just decompressing.
yoga and light weights. Just to rest when I needed to. It worked
very well for me. I'd come home after my walk and fall asleep in
the Lazy Boy lounger for an hour or so....
My INR did take awhile to stablilize. but I did not want to stop
exercising