End of last year I felt really bad and over Xmas time really struggling to breath at times. Wen to the doctor and was diagnosed with High Blood pressure. I was already on tablets so they gave me a higher doses of Candesartan.
First week in January my leg really started to hurt and as I had Deep Vein Thromboses twice before and Factor V Leiden I decided not to take any risk and went to A&E. I had the D-dimer blood test, which was very high and after that the scan and already after 1 minute it was clear that I was diagnosed with a DVT. As I mentioned to the thrombosis nurse about the problems over Xmas she booked me in for a CT-scan and that was showing two clots in my lungs, one on each side.
The clots in my lungs is all new for me and very scary to be honest. I am now on Apixaban and the doctor told me that I will need this for lifetime. This is not a problem, to be honest I am happy with that especially because of the higher risk.
It is now 4 months ago and I can feel some improvement. I still have to elevate my leg in the evenings. At the moment suffering from a cold and this seems to have a bad effect on my lungs as I am getting out of breath and struggle during my sleep. Especially the right side which had the horrible stabbing pains beginning of this year. I just wonder if this will keep on happening every time I pick a cold up?!
I have got an appointment at the Respiratory ward in the hospital end of July. Will have to wait and see what the situation is at that time. As I mentioned it is the first time for me to have the clots in the lungs and I do worry about that a lot. By the way my age is 58.
Regards to you all.
Esquin
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