hjlindley
Senior member
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2011
- Messages
- 761
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 10/2011
- Country
- US
- State
- VA
- City
- Richmond
I am assuming the rest of you are like me and we blame everything on this disease. For last three months my blood pressure has gone up, my pulse has been racing and I've been extremely short of breath. Last Saturday night I woke up at midnight certain that I had been bitten by a shark. Extreme pain in my right flank. Didn't go away so in the morning we called an ambulance. After several rounds of testing, they showed three blood clots one in each lung and one in my right leg. The key to the mystery was that I got shorter breath very suddenly. After couple days of heparin I'm now on a blood thinner and feeling lucky human being. But follow your instincts, don't assume it's always the ALS.