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Pulmonary Embolism or Anxiety?

For over a week I’ve been suffering from shortness of breath and chest tightness/pain. I have had past anxiety problems, but I’ve been on Zoloft to treat it, and haven’t had any attacks since I started it over a year ago.
I tried taking Buspirone which normally calms me down, but it only made my breathing more labored. I’ve tried to be unconcerned, but I’ve never had a constant anxiety attack and trouble breathing at all times of the day, and since I’m 3 months post-partum, I’m wondering if it might be a pulmonary embolism? I had some unexplained pain in my left calf muscle about 6 weeks after giving birth, but it went away after an hour or so, and I’ve had no issues other than the current problems.
I took a trip to the ER last night and the did a D-Dimer test and a chest X-ray, but I’m worried that it isn’t enough to completey rule out a problem? Any help would be great!
I was under the impression that a chest x-ray often misses signs of PE and a CT scan is much more effective. Should I contact the internal medicine speiclaist I was referred to tomorrow? I called my OB, but they told me to go to the ER if I was having those sypmtoms…which I’ve already done.
I’d like to not have to wait until some sort of awful symptoms show up.

I want to hear from successful people who had Panic Disorder?

Any people who are into business like and are smart and had panic disorder or anxiety problems and how they got over it?

What do I do about anxiety attacks?

I’ve never been a paranoid person or a person with anxiety problems until the last year or so. If anyone’s seen my earlier questions, I have had stomach problems since June of 2008 and I ever since I’ve been having anxiety attacks, mostly in the mornings during my first period class (around 7:30 in the A.M.). Could this be another symptom when it comes to my stomach problems? My mother says that they can just start at anytime in your life, but can they be brought on by an illness like mine?

  
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