Thank you for your explanation, rmb.

I'm 28 and I had 4 bilaterally

My youngest daughter died of a clot to her brain stem when she was 1 month shy of her 5th birthday. Now the Doctors are figuring she had the same syndrome that I have, or my syndrome contributed to her having the blood clot in her brain stem.
Sad but true Clots are not age discriminatory.
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Ferr

You also have to remember many young people have had clots that went misdiagnosed and never even realized they were throwing clots. I can almost bet my first clot or PE was probably when I was around 16. I do remember having chest pains even back then, but my parents dismissed them as growing pains. you have to remember too discovering clots has come a long way since i was 16 years old (that was 43 years ago)
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ferr

Youngest I personally knew of was a 19 year old sailor. She suffered a DVT and PE after graduating from boot camp. Cause of clots was the oral contraceptive she was prescribed at boot camp. She was being processed for medical discharge from the Navy when she met with me asking for advice regarding her medical discharge.

Youngest patient I have heard of but have not personally met was 14 years old. His mother had shared her son's story with NBCA (story is on NBCA's website) when I was on their Board of Directors:

http://www.stoptheclot.org/News/article281.htm

Kids undergoing Cancer treatment as well as kids with Nephrotic syndrome are at high risk of suffering PE. I'm sure there are other medical conditions also but the two mentioned above are ones I recall from memory.

My 14 year old daughter was diagnosed with a PE on 8/30/12. She is recovering now.....and it has been a ruff road.

I recall this discussion thread now so I'm glad you found it. Yeah, it can take a while to start feeling better. It really can. So please don't lose heart with her recovery. She's only just 4 weeks out from her PE, and it's so common to still feel kind of lousy and tired.

Had Bilateral PE's (most likely from unnoticed DVT / G20210A) last March, Im only 27

I had several clots when I was 17 and again when i was 23... most doctors that I have seen seem to think it is very rare to see it in someone that young, let alone younger. So it would be my guess that it would be extremely rare for a younger child to have one.

I had mine 2 years ago when I was just 21. I haven't met anyone else who has had one , but the hospital I was in said I was the second youngest person they had ever treated for a pe.

My son had his PE a month after his 18th birthday. That was 5 1/2 weeks ago. We are still in the learning stage.

Myself, I am 24 years old. Diagnosed 3 weeks ago and still adjusting to all of this.

I was 23 when I had my PE.. I know people older than me that had them however Not younger.

I was diagnosed with Pulmonary Embolisms in both lungs 5 months ago. I am 22. I am the youngest person in my clinic.

Kyle Baca was 14 years old when he passed away due to a PE.

http://stoptheclot.org/News/article281.htm

Young Garrett Elder passed away at 8 years of age:

http://www.stoptheclot.org/donate.htm

During my tenure at the National Blood Clot Alliance I met quite a few families who young children had suffered a DVT/PE. Though occurence is rare in young children, it can happen; deaths are even more rare.

Here is a newsletter we did back in 2007 that discusses blood clot in young adult and children:

http://www.stoptheclot.org/Newsletters/NATT_Spring_07_Nwsl__web.pdf

Yep, that's me on the front page of the newsletter.