not sure where to put this post, since it could be relevant to the heart, the lungs, the blood, cancers...
my 15 year old keeps having spells of shortness of breath, heart racing, basically symptoms of possible anxiety....however, i had her at the ER the other night...they done blood work, and found that her D-Dimers was 3066.....which they said was extremely high....so they done a CT scan of her lungs to check for a blood clot...it came back fine..so they chalked it up to be anxiety...but as a precaution, wanted me to take her to a cardiologist to have her put on a heart monitor for the next 30 days....shes already had to call in 3 times due to heart palpitations.
anyway..i had her family dr to re-run the D-Dimers test yesterday...basically 3 days later. got the results today. its now at 0.9 which is normal. how the heck could it be sooooooooooo high one day...and normal a few days later? they are sending her to a hematologist for this very reason. her family dr cannot explain it. id hate to think that it was a false reading with it being that high...cause thats just not good news for the hospital to have tests come out that badly wrong!!! i just dont know what to think!
my 15 year old keeps having spells of shortness of breath, heart racing, basically symptoms of possible anxiety....however, i had her at the ER the other night...they done blood work, and found that her D-Dimers was 3066.....which they said was extremely high....so they done a CT scan of her lungs to check for a blood clot...it came back fine..so they chalked it up to be anxiety...but as a precaution, wanted me to take her to a cardiologist to have her put on a heart monitor for the next 30 days....shes already had to call in 3 times due to heart palpitations.
anyway..i had her family dr to re-run the D-Dimers test yesterday...basically 3 days later. got the results today. its now at 0.9 which is normal. how the heck could it be sooooooooooo high one day...and normal a few days later? they are sending her to a hematologist for this very reason. her family dr cannot explain it. id hate to think that it was a false reading with it being that high...cause thats just not good news for the hospital to have tests come out that badly wrong!!! i just dont know what to think!