Pregnantpanic
23-02-20, 09:44
So basically over the last month, my health anxiety has been at it’s worst. I feel like I’m losing myself.
Around a month ago I started getting shortness of breath at night only when laying in bed, then I started to panic over it and my heart started to race. Of course I searched it and as I’m pregnant and more at risk of a blood clot it came up with pulmonary embolism! Well of course I was worried. I started getting every symptom under the sun, chest pain, back pain, shoulder pain. Then I started getting calf pains! So I went to hospital last week and had a V/Q scan with dye, and was told no blood clots on lungs. But I was still experiencing leg pain (in both legs) and so they did an ultrasound on one leg and no clot. I don’t have any redness or swelling either. But I am still so worried thinking I have a clot. Thinking it could be in the leg they didn’t scan. And because I’ve been so worried I’ve been staying in bed more so now I think I’ve got another clot forming if I didn’t already. It’s ruining my life. I can’t enjoy the last 6 weeks of my pregnancy because it’s all I can think of. Even writing this my back has started hurting again. Thinking the clot from the other leg has gone to my chest. Even my toes are numb and fingers now. Help I don’t know what to do
Around a month ago I started getting shortness of breath at night only when laying in bed, then I started to panic over it and my heart started to race. Of course I searched it and as I’m pregnant and more at risk of a blood clot it came up with pulmonary embolism! Well of course I was worried. I started getting every symptom under the sun, chest pain, back pain, shoulder pain. Then I started getting calf pains! So I went to hospital last week and had a V/Q scan with dye, and was told no blood clots on lungs. But I was still experiencing leg pain (in both legs) and so they did an ultrasound on one leg and no clot. I don’t have any redness or swelling either. But I am still so worried thinking I have a clot. Thinking it could be in the leg they didn’t scan. And because I’ve been so worried I’ve been staying in bed more so now I think I’ve got another clot forming if I didn’t already. It’s ruining my life. I can’t enjoy the last 6 weeks of my pregnancy because it’s all I can think of. Even writing this my back has started hurting again. Thinking the clot from the other leg has gone to my chest. Even my toes are numb and fingers now. Help I don’t know what to do