I got admitted to hospital on Tuesday following a routine check up with my midwife - I have had breathlessness for a few weeks now and had a high heart rate over the weekend. However when I went to my appointment my heart rate was 184!
Anyways I was kept in and had a scan of the veins in my legs and an X Ray of my chest and obviously started straight away with the blood thinning injections (which are horrible may I add!!)
Anyway they didn't find anything from either scan but had no other explanation for my high heart rate and breathlessness. I have been sent home and chosen not to carry on with the injections as I don't feel happy doing that every day if there is no proof that is the problem and also means I would have to have a planned c section.
Anyway I'm still breathless - I'm okay if I'm sitting down resting, but as soon as I do anything it really comes back in full force! I can't spend 6 more weeks sitting down doing nothing until baby is born.
I am still wondering if maybe I have got a blood clot, but has anyone else had this and if so what were your symptoms? If this carries on I may go back and ask for a ct scan.
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Anyone with experience of a P E please?
Maybug12 · 29/01/2016 13:19
Have you told your doctors you have discontinued with the medication??
It's one thing to discontinue and stay under observation in hospital and another to go home and stop the medication they assume you are taking. They only would have discharged you on the assumption that you are taking it, surely?
It's pretty dangerous to self diagnose - just because they don't know exactly what is wrong, it doesn't mean that erring on the side of caution and giving you these is a bad thing. Medicine is not an exact science unfortunately.
Blood clots can cause stroke/pulmonary embolism/death. They give you blood thinners to avoid the chance of a clot. SO if you are worried about a clot then take the thinners!! Sorry to be blunt but I think you should take the medication.
A c-section seems like a minor trade off for avoiding something far worse happening to you or your child.
No one on here should and can diagnose you.
Take the meds and get back to the GP/hospital to push for more tests, but take what they prescribe.
You can spend 6 weeks sitting down if you have to. Sorry but you can. Obviously no one wants to but if you are that ill that you can't walk around you need to acknowledge it and accept it and rest, whilst taking medication and seeking further tests. Believe me I know how horrid it is being ill when pregnant, I have had Pre eclampsia problems with all my pregnancies, but you just have to let it wash over you and adjust to it.
I hope it is nothing serious and works out for you
Not in pregnancy but I had a PE in early 20s
PEs often are fatal - mine almost was.
Go to the doctor as soon as possible, get yourself checked out and then FOLLOW THE ADVICE YOU ARE GIVEN whether to take injections / rest whatever.
In all my pregnancies I have had to self inject twice a day. It's not overly pleasant but completely manageable.
And definitely worth it when it, y'know, stops you dying!
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