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Has anyone had a pulmonary embolism

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Sikipoo Sun 16-Jun-24 18:08:53

Had a scare last Friday. Had a sensation, not pain inbetween my breasts. Intermittently. I decided to go to A&E and to get checked out. No other symptoms.
They checked ecg, that was ok , but heart rate and bp elevated. They ran bloods and all ok apart from d diner for clotting , which was just out of normal range.
The dr said let’s do a cat scan and chest X-ray just to be sure. I don’t think this is anything, but your heart rate is still up.
They found a v small clot. I was v v shocked.
I was sent home with anticoagulants and to attend an out patients clinic this week.
Has anyone else experienced this ?

Nannan2 Tue 18-Jun-24 22:48:16

Oh yes, about 18 years ago, i had a very sharp pain in my side, and by next day was under my shoulder, and i was struggling to breathe in middle of the night- went to A&E and was admitted straightaway- after scans in the morning & blood tests it was discovered i had several clots in both lungs, and where they had come from was a mystery, as ive never smoked- hardly ever drink- but i kept telling them i had a pain behind my left leg.I was in hospital about 4 weeks, on heparin injections, and then had to go up to hosp every day for these jabs, (eventually i was shown how to do it myself) then put on warfarin tablets for 6months. I was 42. After 6 months i taken off warfarin. But my left leg (the one i'd mentioned to them!) ballooned up and i was in pain.Back to A& E and admitted again.Scans showed two huge clots on back of knee and further down, Dr's decided thats where previous smaller clots had broken off from, & ended up in my lungs.That time i was in hospital 5-6 weeks, to have Heparin. I've had to stay on warfarin ever since.I'm on it for life. I have regular INR tests on my blood. Sometimes each week sometimes its only every 4 or 5 weeks if its a stable range. I'ts not possible to do these tests at home as they have to calculate my warfarin dose very carefully, and i'm on what's considered a high dose.However, i am very lucky i think to still be around, as i have several other health problems now as well.

Nannan2 Tue 18-Jun-24 23:10:06

The covid jabs have not affected me- even though i still have DVT & thrombophlebitis in the left leg.The anticoagulant clinics are very good, and i just have a fingerprick to test, and they work out my tablet dosage, but when i moved house last year i had to wait for referral to a new clinic and until then i had to have blood taken from my arm in the 'usual' way, like any other blood test, and it had to be sent off to calculate warfarin dose.This often resulted in much bruising.& by time dose was sent through, i was sometimes on wrong dose most of the week.Now i've got a new clinic sorted out it's much better.