u/coffeeislife185

Found my PE last month after some bad chest pain. Treated with heparin and now warfarin (lupus), no surgery thank goodness.

Since being hospitalized, doing anything that expands my ribcage totally hurts! Especially sneezing! Any time I have one, it’s like the muscles in my chest totally tighten up and it hurts like crazy. Yawning, sighing, and burping all cause a dull ache too.

My doctors think it’s part of the healing process, that the muscles are just fatigued, but I’m soooo over it!