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.
Ever since my PE's (6 months ago) I've had different chest sensations. None are painful, and usually are of short duration. Some feel like a light pressure to my chest, some feel like a very light electrical shock inside my chest. My Dr. thinks there are a result of enzymes breaking down the clots and being reabsorbed. They are fewer and fewer as i heal. They can happen when I start to exercise, during exercise or just sitting watching TV. Since they haven't killed me, I'm not worried about them. Just curious.
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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.
The first few months after diagnosis, I'd get what I can only describe as this feeling like a lightening bolt was going through my sternum. It was just be for a second but it was super intense. Scare the hell out of me. It eventually stopped. But I was just saying on another thread that I'm 7 years out from my PEs and I still get occasional weird chest pains out of the blue. I have had enough false alarms under my belt to know it's likely nothing so I tend to just brush them off now Like you said, they haven't killed me so I'm probably ok.
I'm 5.5 years out from my clots now, and they definitely decreased the further into recovery I got.