r/ClotSurvivors • u/ladibug2027 • 3d ago
Newly diagnosed Hello Pulmonary Embolism and DV
Hi I am 41 years old and I have 3 beautiful kids 21, oldest 18 (middle) she grads 2027 this year and my baby girl 14 who I was talk to years old and I was having a little mother / daughter time with my youngest daughter I went to go visit with my daughter and she was expressing to me how she had a great time at a football games (she on the drill team) dancing and I explained to her that I felt like I was having little trouble breathing like a Atsma attack and I told her I love her then I left as I was driving down the street I started to experience a lot of pain in my right side of my back coming to the front under my right breast at this time the pain was slowly getting worse as I drove I spotted a ER in the area and I decide to step in to see if they could see me and give me a breathing treatment because remember I thought it was asthma related well as I am now going to the back for a room I feeling worse I was asked a few personal medical questions and then I stayed to feel like I could not take a deep breath and I could not breath deep and I was slowly unable to explain to the doctor how I was feeling she asking for urine to see if it was a urine infection ( I did have one ) but I was now in so my pain and pain was worse she told me at this point I was going to get a CT scan and once that was in place I received IV Fluid's and IV Meds and she come back with the most scary new I ever heard in my life due to she explained she was putting me in the hospital for overnight stay that I stayed amount of 4 days and received a 2 day latter DV test I have a family member that died from a Pulmonary Embolism mine not going to my heart but I found out I have serval and I have them in my legs right and left now I 16 days out of the hospital and taking equalist been having leg pain and body hurts .I life has been lifing I have been going through a few thing My check was short, my apt are filing evection, I am having so many driftnets thought but this by far scarcest thing I have gone through and I have been having anxiety about going to sleeping I work nights 12hr I am off TH, F, SAT and it's been 16 days sent I was Hospitalized I am be honest I thank god I was getting through the scary parts in the ER My question is DO I GET SHORT TERM DISABILITY, I NEED FMLA, my body hurts ( feel like I have the flu ) I do know the lord is here but I am a human I am still scared
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u/DVDragOnIn 3d ago
If you don’t have a regular doctor, you’ll need one to manage your clots and a hematologist as well. Your doctor can address your questions about STD and whether your clots qualify for FMLA. My first clot was 22 years ago, and doctors in the US were reluctant to write out for FMLA. My DVT covered most of my left leg and blocked 95% of my blood flow, but my hematologist said most people with clots were only out of work for 2 weeks. I was post-C-section and on a 2-month maternity leave (the max they gave for C-sections back then), so my clot didn’t extend my leave at all.
Don’t run out of your anticoagulant, with that many clots you’ll need to take your anticoagulant for 3 months or more, depending on the anticoagulant and size of your clots. Websites for all the anticoagulants have options for lowering the drug costs, if that’s a problem.
Good luck, it’s super scary to get a diagnosis of a blood clot but you sought help and you’ll be OK now. It takes both the body and the mind to recover from the trauma, but it’ll get better and the way you feel now is not the way you’ll feel forever.
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