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.
hey y'all.
my chest pains on my L side (where i had my pe in december) and my fatigue were getting worse.
i'm not the type to complain or make a big deal about things.
but my friends made me call my doc.
i called this morning.
my doc said i had to go to the ER.
ugh.
i wasn't going to go.
but my friend who runs a coumadin clinic lovingly yelled at me.
so here i am.
i have peed in a cup, had an EKG and just had a bunch of blood drawn.
they gave me an actual ER room.
here i wait.
thank goodness for laptops and wireless internet.
send hugs!
thanks.
my chest pains on my L side (where i had my pe in december) and my fatigue were getting worse.
i'm not the type to complain or make a big deal about things.
but my friends made me call my doc.
i called this morning.
my doc said i had to go to the ER.
ugh.
i wasn't going to go.
but my friend who runs a coumadin clinic lovingly yelled at me.
so here i am.
i have peed in a cup, had an EKG and just had a bunch of blood drawn.
they gave me an actual ER room.
here i wait.
thank goodness for laptops and wireless internet.
send hugs!
thanks.
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Now that I am not talking to my whatever best friend, I realized that her life is full of drama. I had grown tired of hearing her stories about her boyfriend many months ago. She basically had been monopolizing conversations for that long too. She pretty much stopped asking me questions about me. I passed her in front of her classroom the other day and didn't even look at her. I am...
Tabby
Thank her for me.
Hope you get some reassurance and everything turns out OK but you're in the right place - love Sandi xx
it's good to have people who *understand* nearby on the internet.
i just put on the dreaded gown (but get to keep on my yoga pants! yippee for that!).
i'm awaiting the CT scan with contrast.
Karen xx
much love.
i mean if this all turns out to be nothing, i will feel like i over-reacted.
yet...i really hope it all turns out to be nothing.
i already called in sick to work tomorrow and i hate to do that.
i'm the super responsible person...but i know i will be exhausted after being here possibly until late into the night, even if they don't admit me.
"Rather be over-reacting then not acting and be sorry..."
You know you did the right thing, YOU know.
and this is dero speaking," YOU did the right thing,PLUS you wanted a day OFF."
Hopefully, it is a false alarm,,,but you did the right thing by going! HUGS!
What d'I say???
Remember, if it was one of us, you'd tell us to go to the ER, so you gotta listen to your own advice.
At least you get to wear pants. I alway had to strip down to my undies. One time a co-worker, a fellow PE survivor ironically enough, brought me to the ER during a work day. How thrilled was I that she got to see me in my worst old lady underwear. Women dress for other women, it is true.
Good luck with everything.
Especially since they moved me out of my private room and into a "hall room" with 0 privacy.
GREAT NEWS! My CT scan was clear!!!
Yippee! My INR was 2.4 last week so I would have been super freaked.
The PE from Dec. is gone and there's no new one.
Yippee! (again)
They are still keeping me over night to test my cardiac enzymes and do a cardio stress test/echo in the morning.
My theory is that the pain is muscular. It is just plain sore where the PE was.