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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Scared I have DVT/PE

Madib7
Madib7

im an 19 year old female and I live a very sedentary life due to recently being diagnosed with low bp and inappropriate sinus tachycardia and it scares the crap out of me when I stand and my hr shoots up, but anyway, 90% of the time I’m sitting or laying down. Sometimes when I stand for too long my legs will turn purple with white spots and itch, since I started getting so scared of DVT I convinced myself that I must get up more. So yesterday I was up a lot trying to keep the blood moving and right before bed I had chest pains on the left side next to my breast, but I made myself go to sleep and I woke up this morning with sligh aching in the same place in my chest but put it off then throughout the day as I was standing from my hip down to the back of my knee was aching, not serious pain just a little ache and I’ve had about a million anxiety attacks today about it but my mom keeps telling me there is no way I have it because there is no warmth or swelling or redness. Just a little pain. My mom pushed my foot forward to see if it’d hurt behind my knee and it did but it hurt the same in the right leg. I don’t know if I’m just freaking out or if it’s legit. 

rmb
rmb
Why not just go to the doctor and get checked out?
Madib7
Madib7
@rmb everyone thinks I’m a hypochondriac and that I don’t need to go
Djthundee
Djthundee
So when i had my dvt, which brought me here *still in hospital* my right leg knee down was swollen n my calf killed me. But it hurt the worst right down the center where your vein is. If i touched it I cried. Hospital said i was fine n sent me home now I'm back with about 6 clots in my lungs. If you feel u need to go you should.
drgps
drgps
Do not be concerned with what "others think" especially when it comes to your health. Clots can be fatal. Go and get it checked. Hugs.
rmb
rmb
No one here can really tell you anything except their own experience. So many symptoms of DVTs and PEs can be symptoms of other things, include other non serious issues. So it's hard to know. If you are concerned, go to the doctor. Then you will know and you won't have to speculate any longer.
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