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This really jumped out at me, OP. I have COVID. I feel like I’m recovering, but the doctor is sending me for a CT today to look for PE (pulmonary embolism? I think?). I’m still very short of breath. My oxygen levels keep dropping suddenly. They dropped to 88 yesterday and then quickly came back up. I developed a stabbing pain in my chest. I thought maybe just a pulled muscle from 14 days of coughing. But I guess the doctor wants to play it safe. Now I’m glad he is checking![/quote]

Thank your doctor, as getting checked is absolutely the right thing to do.  I had a blood clot years ago and described the early stage exactly like that - I thought I pulled a muscle.[/quote]

+1 That’s how my PE symptoms felt as well, and I had a similar drop in blood oxygen levels. Reading about the clotting issues, I’m now wondering if my PE case last fall could have been COVID related. It followed a couple weeks of what felt like a fairly intense cold. We’d been on our last of three trips to San Francisco just before the cold symptoms started. I had no risk factors, and the doctors seemed very surprised that I had so many clots throughout my lungs.

I’m really glad you are getting the CT scan. Please report back. [/quote]

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