Thanks for your reply, Amanda. I don’t happen to see that the Doctor ordered the D-dimer test, though it makes sense that he should have. He did order a Comprehensive Metabolic panel and a full CBC panel. He noted my sodium was high as well as my blood pressure - first 110/98
and then 146/90. Some afterthoughts of mine are maybe it was higher due to ibuprofen I’ve been taking to try to alleviate the sensation of itchy lungs (see below). For that reason I’ll stop taking the ibuprofen and then get my blood pressure checked somewhere to see if it went back to normal.

As to other symptoms, I have had a sensation of slight heartburn on a few occasions (not heartburn from gastric gases or acid getting into the throat) as well as discomfort in the chest (pain in a few blood vessels). I have also had shortness of breath on exertion (when singing, hiking, and on some days when talking I found myself running out of breath mid sentence). No wheezing or coughing associated with it.

I have had other discomfort in my lungs but that is associated with something entirely different- an aspiration event in December that has caused shortness of breath and itchy sensation in my lungs ever sInce. I’ll be getting a bronchoscopy with lavage soon for that to rule out a a fungal infection in my chest. There surely has to be an answer for the constant itchiness inside my lungs since then.