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 all,
Is there someone on here who like me used work intensely with cardio and weights before their pe's. I can now do cardio on the bike but I recently tried lifting light weights and two days later I was in agony with my muscles.I could not put on a sweater or put the hood up on my coat when it was raining.It was like I had never lifted weights before when I was lifting,this despite lots of muscle on my body. Although the muscles are affected it is something else thats triggering this.I believe it is my veins.Because after this episode I stopped with the weights but the next day all my veins had swollen up on my chest and on my left arm.My left arm again felt swollen internally and the veins on my chest hurt.
Is there anybody on this site who successfully went back to weightlifting following a pe?If so how long did it take?
When I see my hematologist next week I'm going to ask her if a blocklayer has a bi-lateral pe's on 12th of jan and is released on 22nd of jan from hospital,how long before he can go back to work? Why am i going to say this?because lifting bricks is the same as lifting weights and I feel there would be more flags raised if a person could not return to his livliehood than say if someone like myself could work but whose only complaint was that they could not lift weights.The person who is struggling to lift weights their complaint will be taken less seriously.
Not being able to work is a different matter entirely.What kind of weight was I lifting the other day? 22kg either side on the dumbell for dumbell chest press.Reps of 12. 4 sets.
My concern is that it is the meds that are affecting the veins,that they are inflammed anyway before weights and then the lifting of the weights just makes things worse.If you lift weights please get back to me.
Any feedback would be welcome.
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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.
My Dr told me I had to start slowly increasing my walking. I have puffers for asthma and can’t walk two blocks without physical body aches. I thought it was affects of being anemic from blood loss that took a long time to get over. What my Dr explained is that the cardiovascular system is like a muscle. Those that suffered a PE took a hit and need time to heal. After healing you need to rework the muscle back into shape. Start with small bouts of cardio. Retrain your lungs to process co2. Your muscles hurt because your unable to get enough oxygen to them. Don’t push it. I don’t suspect it has anything to do with your veins but more to do with the need to first work on your cardiovascular system.
I have to do the treadmill in repetitions the first day after I excercised my lungs hurt like they lifted weights. Everyone is different but that’s my story.
Anyways, I started lifting again about a month after. I've lost a lot of strength but i'm plugging away at it, but the conditioning side of stuff has been fine. Everyone is different. Recovery seems to take a lot longer, particularly with my legs. I think what I have to keep in mind is that with my blood being thinner, the lactic acid comes a bit quicker. So I burn and fatigue far quicker than I used to.
Its frustrating as I had planned to be in a comp in August. I've asked GP's about exercise and nutrition but they are pretty clueless. Mainly because they are used to dealing with 60yr olds, who are not the most active.
Hope you find some joy