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, I haven't posted in a long time. I had an unprovoked small per and am now off treatment 17 months. My physical recovery took a while as I had ongoing pain from an infarct. Mentally......that recovery took even longer. For the last week I have pain across my upper back and at the site of the pe. I have intermittent sob. All these symptoms are relatively mild and nothing as severe as when I had pe. I also have sinus problems to complicate the picture. I cannot face the doctor yet. But this really brings it all back.
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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.
Not sure where you live but any time it gets really cold out or the heat is blasting and I feel dry, it seems to aggravate my lungs. My PE was over 7 years ago and the weather still affects my lungs, not as bad as it used to but still some what. I'm dealing with that the last two weeks.
Anyway, just saying some of what you are feeling is fairly normal and it does sometimes automatically trigger thoughts of the PE. It's a hard thing to be mindful of PE symptoms but not freak out that everything you feel is a PE. But like I said, that gets easier with time, knowing what's something to be concerned about and something that is benign.