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Just because I didn't have any discernible symptoms, it doesn't mean there wouldn't necessarily be a problem which could be identified and caught early. The thresholds are that I was diagnosed with a PE, and they didn't know why I got it, so they ran some tests - just in case.

The health check they gave me was to look for any possible reasons as to why I got a blood clot in the first place - e.g. was one of my organs mis-firing? If so, was it cancerous? In the end, they couldn't discern an obvious reason, and I got a clean bill of health in that regard. But my point...

Four years ago, I was short of breath just walking up the stairs. I went to the doctor, who took blood, booked me in for an X-ray, booked me in for an ECG, (which sought to presume that my heart was blocked - it wasn't - so therefore had an angiogram) and a CT scan, and and eventually the...