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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Checking back in - feeling so much better

lapopessa
lapopessa
I was diagnosed with my PE 3/19. In the months since it's been an up and down road. Went to doc this week and she confirmed what I thought - I'm breathing much better, doing much better. After all this time I finally got a look at my CT scan. She showed me the clot and it scared the dickens out of me (this was the day after Dennis Farina died of a PE). My clot was easily 90-95% of the artery. I'm stunned any blood was getting through it.

But I have gotten through it. Am still working on things, of course, and am still on Wafarin through October (when I go back to doc again).

Anyhow, just wanted to pop in and let people know how I was doing. You folks helped get me through the rough parts of this and I'm very grateful!
rmb
rmb
Glad to hear you're doing well!
TossNTurn
TossNTurn
This is great news! Hope things just continue to get better for you!
FGtri
FGtri
Great news. You and I are on about the same schedule with warfarin until Oct. I'm gonna need some serious support then as I will be frightened to go off of it! But there is a chance that they will keep me on it as my PE is a possible second occurance...don't have the CT scan to prove the first time it happened. I'm torn as I don't want to be on it for life either...
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