Blood Clots High D-Dimer and Chest CT High Anxiety Please Help

30 year old mother of 3, i have been struggling with heart skipping fluttering i mean it is all over the place. also had chest tightness pain in upper back and chest shortness of breath .i do have anxiety , iv gone to the ER im not sure how many times elevated d dimer 3 ct scan multiple x rays blood work every thing normal except slightly elevated d dimer. iv been struggling with this for a year know it has made me depressed scared i cry all the time my palapatations were so bad iv hit my chest in frustration i know that may sound weird but im desperate... im scared and i just want answers but i cant get them iv been to my cardiologist he proscribed me pro propranolol i feel it does not work i still have majorly scary palapatations were they skip i feel as if i cant catch my breath and it hard to breath.....also my heart palapatations seem to be worse when im at a standstill like sitting or standing still not so much when im walking or active although ill still feel a few does anyone have simalar symptoms .oh also i have heart burn and indigestion problems....

Been having shortness of breath and left sided (under breast) chest pains, heart palpitations (randomly) for a few weeks, but only upon exertion. Finally went to emerg. ECG was normal, blood pressure normal, blood tests were normal except D-dimer. My level came back at 250, not sure of the measured unit. Chest xray clear, CT scan with contrast clear. Here i am its four AM and I'm not able to sleep. My chest is tight, and I'm light-headed.

So glad i found this forum, are there any updates?

My next step is a followup with my family doctor.

Thanks for listening !

Hello My Name Is Anthony and i too suffer from anxiety and panic attacks so last night i was out giving my customers rides and i was only able too do too rides before my anxiety got the best of me. well i called the advice line and they told me too go too the er so i did so they did the normal test blood work xrays and so on. next thing you know they send me too do a CT scan because they said my d dimer test was elevated they didn't tell me my numbers so we go do CT scan then i come back and before they sent me home they did another blood test and my nurse said too make sure there wasn't no damage with my heart so i got release at 6:00 Am and my mind wasn't at ease so i went on google too look up d dimer and been freaking asking did the doc do their job thoroughly enough or am i just letting google trip me out any comments please so i know I'm not alone thank you

I know a lot of these posts are quite old but i was just wondering if anyone ever got concrete answers as to why they were having chest pain with elevated D dimer levels?

I'm 39, female. About a week ago I started getting tightness in my chest, which seemed to start just under my lowest left rib. A couple nights ago I got pain in the left side of my neck which was worse when breathing in. I have had several similar experiences in the last 15 or so years and never got any answers so didn't hurry to A&E but contacted my GP the next morning. I had a score of blood tests and got a call from the GP saying my D-Dimer level is slightly over the highest range. GP seemed a bit perplexed and has advised another blood test in a week and for me to go to A&E if the symptoms return. Of course, now I am analysing every twinge and feeling and wondering if I'm a ticking time bomb for a clot.

Reading through these posts however, it seems elevated d-dimer levels isnt that uncommon. but i am really interested to know if anyone has had any answers?

Thank you in advance for any replies!

so glad I found this post!

I've been struggling with shortness of breath, tight chest and fatigue for months now. treated for asthma but no medications were helping my symptoms. A few days ago I spoke to the respiratory team at the hospital who wanted me to have a CT. since then my symptoms worsened and I was told by my doctor to go straight to A&E as I needed a CT that day as she strongly suspected I had a clot. Got to A&E, doctor told me he things I'm just run down, which annoyed me as I've had very persistent symptoms for a long time. He was reluctant to give me a CT as he said it had dangerous levels of radiation and instead wanted to check my D Dimer levels, and he said he was almost certain they would be negative and he would be sending me home. He called me back in to say they came back as high so I have to have the scan. I suffer from very bad anxiety anyway, so after hearing how against the scan he was due to the radiation levels, I was a nervous wreck. To make matters worse, the first scan wasn't clear so I immediately had to have a second one, 2 lots of radiation. My scan results came back clear and the doctor gave me a HUGE lecture on how I must change my lifestyle or I will be back in hospital with a stroke or other serious issues and he told me I was 'killing myself'. I am a busy mum of three, I don't work as I'm home with my children, yes I'm on the go and struggle getting a full night's sleep but who doesn't as a parent to young children?

forgot to mention my chest xray and ECGs were all clear but now I am an absolute wreck, still experiencing the breathing issues and tight chest and terrified I have a cancer developing somewhere that they haven't discovered, aswell as being terrified I'm going to someone give myself a stroke!

please can someone offer some advice, I am so emotional thinking my days are numbered due to this huge ordeal. I plan on going to my doctor in a couple of days when she's back with a list of all my concerns and requests for further testing so I can rule everything else out, aswell as a repeat test for the d dimers.