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.
I seem to be recovering pretty well. I swim laps sometimes and am trying to get back into lifting weights. One thing, however, is I still get shortness of breath when walking from my car to the third floor of school. I'm three months out from my diagnosis. Is this normal? I feel like I catch my breath a bit quicker but I still get out of breath.
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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.
If you're not seeing any improvement in this area since your diagnosis, maybe talk to your doctor, BUT if you're better than you were, it seems like that you are just still healing and are likely to keep seeing improvement.
At three months out, it didn't take much to bring out a little SOB for me. Walking around the mall, really cold air, clean product fumes. I continued to improve for quite a while past the three month mark.