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've always bruised easily, but I have WAY too many "provenance unknown" bruises now!
Did you bruise easily before PE? I never bruised easy B.P.E and I don't bruise easily now either. (Of course I don't do heavy housework or carpentry!)
Different with warfarin, of course, but sometimes I think it just makes me more interesting!
Giggle.
But what's weird is that I went for a bike ride yesterday, and I noticed a handful of quarter size bruises on the back of my leg, from the knee down, this morning. Not as many as my dream, but it was a little spooky that I dreamed that and it kind of happened. I think I just got banged around on my bike.
Honestly, I don't think I bruise any more or less while on warfarin. In fact, I'm surprised that I don't bruise more. I do get these little pencil eraser size faint bruises on my arms and legs once in a while. But it sort of goes with the territory of being on an anticoagulant.
I have messed up dreams as it is. They are either funnier than hell (after I wake up and ponder them) or more disturbing than any horror movie.
I think there's an old thread out here that completely went off into a discussion about dreams. It was fascinating.