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 was just diagnosed with bilateral PEs. I was six days post-op for a laparascopic surgery, and I couldn't breathe and my heart was racing. I thought I was having a heart attack. It was the scariest moment of my life. It felt like someone was pushing on my chest.
I was in the hospital for three days and put on Coumadin and Lovenox injections (until the Coumadin kicks in).
Now I'm home, and I'm freaking out. I'm so scared it's going to happen again. I wanted to be home so badly, but now that I'm here, I'm terrified. I'm breathing okay (although not as good as I'd like), but I have no appetite and I just want to sleep all the time.
Is this normal? When will I start feeling like me again?
I was in the hospital for three days and put on Coumadin and Lovenox injections (until the Coumadin kicks in).
Now I'm home, and I'm freaking out. I'm so scared it's going to happen again. I wanted to be home so badly, but now that I'm here, I'm terrified. I'm breathing okay (although not as good as I'd like), but I have no appetite and I just want to sleep all the time.
Is this normal? When will I start feeling like me again?
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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.
missd - Hubby brought my pup to see me too! After a week in the hospital it really lit up my life to see her little face. Cute story!
dbianco- that sounds really scary! I'm so sorry that has happened to you! I really hope this is the last time and you'll get well from now on.
So glad I can acorss this forum. Saturday night I woke up with shortness of breath and some pain in my arm, it continues off and on for the rest of the day and I finally went to the ER. They did the ekg and it was fine, most tests came back fine, chest X-ray came back on but the blood test they do for blood clots did not come back ok. I then went for a ct scan and they said they found the tiniest clot on my lung. The did sonograms in my arms and legs and didn't find anything else, my echo came back good, all my Vidals were good. They had me stay overnight for observation and gave me a shot of lovenex and a cumadian pill. They released me the next day and sent me on my way with my shots to do twice a day for 5 days and my cumidan and appts daily to get my blood done. It's my first night at home and I am terrified to go to bed. I already suffer with panic attacks and I am scared I won't know the difference