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I have experienced multiple blood clots due to a clotting disorder and duplication of part of the vascular system in my left leg. But my PE resulted from a car accident, as my pelvis suffered a crush injury, and a “fat clot” composed of bone marrow traveled to my lung. I also suffered a significant chest contusion, so had pretty bad chest pain for quite a while afterwards. But by the 3 month mark post injury I no longer had any symptoms. Not sure what is going on with you now, but you are doing the right thing staying on top of it. You said the one episode came after laying carpet - have all the episodes been brought on by exertion? You need to start logging each episode - when it starts, when it ends, what you were doing when it started. Severity of the pain, using the 1 to 10 scale, if it worsens with activity. This data helps the doctor get a full assessment of what you are experiencing. I’m praying for you. Please keep us updated on your progress.
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Thank you for the reply, it’s appreciated greatly.
The cause for the PE was due to my broken foot, this caused the clots in my calf that in turn moved to my lungs. The carpet laying was one of the reasons I didn’t go to hospital as I thought the breathing issue was due to me doing manual labour.
I’ve been asking around on another forum and it seems like it’s quite common to get these small pains on the chest on 1 or both sides for quite some time after a PE, which has been reassuring. Scarring of the lungs seems to be the reason. Until this time I’ve not heard of anyone having this so have been very much in the dark and reliant on junior doctors at A&E doing their best to advise me without it being their area of expertise.
Currently my pain is still there, very slight and when I’m busy I can’t notice it, I’ve got no doubt that it will go completely again as it normally does, however when it returns it’s hard to not let it play on your mind and think the worst.
Thank you