Blood clots to the lung can kill a person pretty fast but, in most cases, there are symptoms first that I’ll give a person enough time to get life saving help.
In my case a few years ago, I had lower back muscle spasms that limited my movement further a month. One day I got a stabbing pain mid chest, left side and went to the ER. They admitted me on a suspected clot. The hospital didn’t give me a dye test, kept me for 4 days on heparin and sent me home telling me I didn’t have a clot.
Ten days later I could hardly breathe, went to a great hospital ER, BP was 60/40. They immediately did a dye test and told me I had “humongous blood clots in both lungs. I asked the doc if humongous was a medical term.
They gave me a TPA drip and it worked and 7 days later I went home, on warfarin for life. The doctors told me wife they never saw so many clots in both lungs of a person who was still alive. It was one of two near death experiences I had in 1 year, the other being a staph B infection that lead to sepsis.
It’s 3 years later and I’m still around and kicking.
I just went through that at christmas. The clot was removed on Christmas eve. Massive saddle clot i that was putting pressure on my heart. I did not take any covid shots in case anyone is thinking that. Still recovering but doing much better this past week
Yeah, all that pressure trying to breathe makes your heart enlarge. Fortunately, it usually goes back to normal size after awhile. Congratulations on your survival, we were both lucky. No Covid shot for me either, people do get clots without the vax.
Blood clots to the lung can kill a person pretty fast but, in most cases, there are symptoms first that I’ll give a person enough time to get life saving help.
In my case a few years ago, I had lower back muscle spasms that limited my movement further a month. One day I got a stabbing pain mid chest, left side and went to the ER. They admitted me on a suspected clot. The hospital didn’t give me a dye test, kept me for 4 days on heparin and sent me home telling me I didn’t have a clot.
Ten days later I could hardly breathe, went to a great hospital ER, BP was 60/40. They immediately did a dye test and told me I had “humongous blood clots in both lungs. I asked the doc if humongous was a medical term.
They gave me a TPA drip and it worked and 7 days later I went home, on warfarin for life. The doctors told me wife they never saw so many clots in both lungs of a person who was still alive. It was one of two near death experiences I had in 1 year, the other being a staph B infection that lead to sepsis.
It’s 3 years later and I’m still around and kicking.
I just went through that at christmas. The clot was removed on Christmas eve. Massive saddle clot i that was putting pressure on my heart. I did not take any covid shots in case anyone is thinking that. Still recovering but doing much better this past week
Yeah, all that pressure trying to breathe makes your heart enlarge. Fortunately, it usually goes back to normal size after awhile. Congratulations on your survival, we were both lucky. No Covid shot for me either, people do get clots without the vax.
👍🏻