
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.

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So as if I didn't have enough axiety going into my catheter ablation procedure, which went well, but two days later back to the ER to have them discover a blood clot in my lung. Since then I have had nausea, mostly in the morning hours, and my chest feels tight with shooting pains every now and then, I've been to my cardiologist and my PC and they've listen to my heart and lungs and all has come out well, but can't help but feeling so scared, anxious and completely overwelmed, I've been anxious as a child, but was manageable until now, I can't even really describe it to anyone, but feel so scared, did anyone else feel this way. It'll be three weeks on Friday, I just want to feel confident that I'll be okay, my blood test have been very stable which is good, any words of comfort are welcomed.
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surgeon said that this happened in less than 1% of patients, actually he said he had never had any of his patients have a clot after breast reduction. Then a week later, had two
small PE in lungs. My Dr. said are not life
threatening. I also have been worried and
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I have read. Just focus everyday on this thought "I am well and strong." Kathy