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.
Hi again everyone:
Well, I guess I have to consider myself a hypochondriac! Now, every little pain or feeling of discomfort scares the daylights out of me. Today at school I started having pain in the back of my neck. It was a sharp pain which came and went throughout the day. I had to dismiss myself from class so that I could call my Dr. However, the Dr. was not in (at a meeting). Well, I then called the hospital and spoke with a nurse there. She said it most likely is not due to a clot in my neck (my fear). This is Really, Really Tough! I'm so thankful that I have all of you to vent my fears. THANKYOU>>>>>>>>>>
Well, I guess I have to consider myself a hypochondriac! Now, every little pain or feeling of discomfort scares the daylights out of me. Today at school I started having pain in the back of my neck. It was a sharp pain which came and went throughout the day. I had to dismiss myself from class so that I could call my Dr. However, the Dr. was not in (at a meeting). Well, I then called the hospital and spoke with a nurse there. She said it most likely is not due to a clot in my neck (my fear). This is Really, Really Tough! I'm so thankful that I have all of you to vent my fears. THANKYOU>>>>>>>>>>
indwen
I do not recall it crawling far up the neck, but I had all my pain in the first week after recovery. It was the worst pain I ever recall, the only pain for which I ever took prescription pills, and it moved around to mysterious places. The first night out of the hospital it seemed to be in the area of the kidneys, so as a hypochondriac I naturally assumed more clots broke free and kept the blood backing up to them. The next day it was the back, then the sternum, and it became extremely severe at the shoulder. In the end, I could understand that PE was a serious disruption to the chest cavity, and the recovery pains extended far to the periphery thereof. Fortunately, the pains made their rounds within that week and have not returned since. For the longest time, that did not keep any random everyday pains, however minor, from being suspect as somehow related to the clots or the A/C treatment. Eventually you will gain a better feeling of safety.
indwen