NHS - haven’t got referral yet - who am I supposed to ask for advice
Had chest pains and breathlessness on 13/6 but thought it was viral & anxiety. Had been on holiday but only short haul flights and no sign of DVT anywhere.
A&E found blood clot in lungs on 16/6 evening so I’ve been referred to “the blood clot clinic” they said it would be about 2 weeks. It’s been about 2.5 weeks now and I still haven’t heard anything, and while a few extra days isn’t concerning, I’m wondering what I’m supposed to do while waiting because nothing was really explained to me and I feel like I’m relying on Google and Reddit to see if my symptoms are normal. I’m assuming my GP isn’t qualified to help? Getting a taxi to my local A&E will cost £40 for the round trip and it doesn’t seem worthwhile contacting 999 for. But I’m really paranoid about that now because that was my thinking when I first had the PE and it took me 48 hours of chest pains and breathlessness before I bothered to call 999
During the first week of treatment, when I was on a double dose of Apixaban, I seemed to start feeling much better really quickly. Admittedly I was resting a lot though, but the chest pains had mostly cleared up. Since then though I feel like everything has been getting worse. The initial chest pains were centre-left of my chest but now I’m getting sharp pains on my right side. Not excruciating, and im guessing that it’s inflammation, but I didn’t seem to have inflammation there before. There isn’t a change in my resting heart or respiratory rates but I feel like I have less stamina than I did just over a week ago.
ETA: Made the mistake of calling 111 so now I have to attend A&E within the hour because I have chest pains, despite having a condition where chest pains are normal.