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- i had to pick up lab results to bring to another doctor. in the packet of lab results were chest x rays done 1 months after the closure of the hole in my heart. for 6 years since the first clots i have suffered a very enlarged heart. pulmonary...
- tomorrow i have surgery to close a congenital heart defect called a pfo or hole between two chambers of the heart. when i had the first massive PE"S five years ago and all the time since i have at time been treated like a hypochondriac the person...
- does anyone know exactly what a shunt test is and means when the pulmonary lab takes you on 100% oxygen ad the result is supposed to somehow tell i think how much of the oxygen a person breathes attaches to the hemoglobin for availability by the...
- follow up on hole in the heart find. this has been an interesting journey.i had the transesphageal echo two week ago. one more thing to miss my dear husband. he would always be there when the dr came and get all the info and give it to me when i...
- have any of you that has been put on oxygen experienced what i,ll call the unexpected miracle parts of being on home oxygen. for four years now since a bit after the first massive P.E.'s my blood pressure went and stayed sky high. i had chronic...
- i am in complete shock my last clot was oct 13 2010. i did not come home with oxygen. over the past month i was put on o2 at night and not full time.now it is full time,things kept getting worse and worst. i have been so tired, running fevers on and...
- help i had my last clot in Oct 2011. i never went home on oxygen. now 11 month later i am on o2 during day sometimes and all night. the pain is unbearable. every time i take a breath in i am screaming in pain. i have recently been diagnosed with...
- i was getting my vision tested weekly till the cataract surgery occurred. i originally noticed a substantial loss of vision on july 2, 2011 i was tested the day before the surgery and when the eye chart was put up all i could se was dust bunny ,...
- unbelievable. i saw the retinal specialist today in the field 15 years. i heard the words yet again this is something i have never seen in all my years of practice. i get this al lot. initially when it happened about five minutes before i noticed...
- on july 6th i had to take a 13 hour round trip bus ride for a va apportionment, it is four and a half hours each way on the bus with two five minute stops. when i got home my legs were about as swollen as they have ever gotten on one of these trips....
- scared. Saturday my eyes were fine just needed reading glasses. i had an exam last year no sign of cataracts. Saturday i drove to church less than a mile from my house and a block from the church most of the sight in my right eye was gone. totally...
- i am on lovenox. i fell three times on saturday most likely from throwing up for a bit over four weeks now. i have turned into a clutz. i was driving to church a mile from the house and good thing i only had a block to go because i realized i had...
- this has been the most unbelievable week i can imagine. i have been going to the mountains twice a year for the last thirty years. i normally reside at sea level actually +1 foot our woman's retreat was at the 6000 foot level. i have been to my...
- Has any one ever had a problem like this from blood thinners such as coumadin or lovenox?a few weeks ago i woke up to find all my thousands of beautiful freckles on my arms are now red colored or petechiae. under skin bleeds along with a nose...
- we talk so much about our fears of getting another P.E. which is valid and something that we have to keep are silent watch list occasionally updated and refreshed to be watchful but not consumed.what i find more disconcerting over the past five...