I'm 36 weeks pregnant.
I've developed shortness of breath, a cough (sometimes productive with white frothy/blood streaked mucus and sometimes dry), sometimes I can't catch my breath, sometimes breathing in is agonising, sometimes I'm wheezy, sometimes my chest is bubbling, I don't have a temperature (but have been sweating hugely at night to the point that I'm up every hour), I have persistent upper right sided back pain which started about 2 weeks before this cough/unable to breathe gubbins. My heart rate is normal but I have a pacemaker so it's controlled mechanically anyway. I can't walk to the bathroom without feeling dizzy due to being short of breath.
I am an asthmatic who has been very very sick with asthma in the past. I know my condition well and this doesn't feel like asthma. My inhalers don't help the wheeze or tightness in my chest.
98% of me says I just have a virus and I'll be fine. 2% of me expects to keel over any second with a PE. I've made a doctor's appointment for 3.40pm but I actually don't feel like I'll be able to walk from the car to the surgery!
I'm a nurse for goodness sake - okay, a children's nurse with virtually no experience of PE, and I always eye roll a little bit at threads like this when clearly the OP needs to seek medical help...
Anyway, advice gratefully received 😂