Hi All,
I had my routine midwife appointment yesterday, she took my blood pressure and it was measuring way too high so she sent me off to the antenatal day unit at my hospital for further checks and they did my blood pressure twice and it was perfect both times, they said the midwife at the doctors may have put the wrong size arm clasp on me which may have made my reading higher.
While I was there I told them how id been feeling the past few weeks, really breathless after doing minor things such as the washing up, walking up the stairs etc. and they asked me to do an ECG on my heart to check for abnormalities and that came back fine. They also took some blood and said they would call me today if anything was wrong, and they haven't called so im assuming all was ok so im not anaemic or anything like that.
My problem is that today at work my breathlessness has been out of control, I was stood up looking through some folders and I had to keep sitting down to catch my breath and calm down. I'm really worried and I want to go to A & E after work as im scared I might have blood clots on my chest or something. Am I being paranoid considering all the tests I had done yesterday or should I go and get checked out? Surely if they suspected anything like that they would have done scans or something? I'm just worried that because breathlessness is my only symptom and I don't have further symptoms of it like coughing etc. that im being overlooked.
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18+5 and Feeling Breathless
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anxiousandpregnant · 11/05/2017 16:20
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