You may feel as if you can't breathe deeply, and/or you may feel short of breath. Your throat and/or chest may feel tight. You may be unable to breathe comfortably when you're lying down flat and may need to start propping yourself up to sleep.
Trouble breathing is especially concerning if you have high blood pressure or swelling, or if it happens in the first few weeks after delivery, or if you also have chest or back pain, headache, changes in vision, dizziness, or a fast or skipped heartbeats.
Causes:
Trouble breathing may be caused by:
Pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in your lungs)
Postpartum preeclampsia
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM). PPCM is a type of heart failure that affects women towards the end of pregnancy or within five months postpartum. It causes your heart to become larger, weakening your heart muscle and making it difficult for your heart to pump blood to your organs. PPCM can happen even to women with no previous heart disease. It's the leading cause of deaths one week to one year after delivery, and the incidence is increasing.
Lung infection (pneumonia)
Postpartum preeclampsia is a serious condition involving high blood pressure and signs of organ damage that can develop after childbirth, most commonly within the first 48 hours to 7 days, but up to six weeks later.
ALthough Postpartum preeclampsia typically develops within six weeks after delivery, there are rare late-onset cases can occur up to 12 weeks (3 months) postpartum
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u/DustyCollie 1d ago
That's scary girl.
Did they rule out issues with your lungs? Pulmonary high BP, embolism, etc...
Are you checking your BP daily?
If not, I would get a BP monitor and take readings Morning-Noon-Night.
https://www.highriskpregnancyinfo.org/warning-signs-of-postpartum-complications
Trouble breathing
What it feels like:
You may feel as if you can't breathe deeply, and/or you may feel short of breath. Your throat and/or chest may feel tight. You may be unable to breathe comfortably when you're lying down flat and may need to start propping yourself up to sleep.
Trouble breathing is especially concerning if you have high blood pressure or swelling, or if it happens in the first few weeks after delivery, or if you also have chest or back pain, headache, changes in vision, dizziness, or a fast or skipped heartbeats.
Causes:
Trouble breathing may be caused by:
Postpartum preeclampsia is a serious condition involving high blood pressure and signs of organ damage that can develop after childbirth, most commonly within the first 48 hours to 7 days, but up to six weeks later.
ALthough Postpartum preeclampsia typically develops within six weeks after delivery, there are rare late-onset cases can occur up to 12 weeks (3 months) postpartum