What helps post COVID shortness of breath?

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After a mild covid last year I started experiencia short of breatheness so I came to the doctor and he prescribed me Seretide 50/500 I started to feel so much better after two months but my regular physician was very worried about the long term usage on high doses so decided to reduce it instead of twice a day only once. My symptoms worsen and now I am back on twice a day. I recently went back to exercise o a regular routine. Any other long term treatments for this kind of issue?

Have you considered seeing a pulmonologist or getting a pulmonary function test? I have a similar issue and my PCP ordered the test to see if we can figure out the cause.

Steroids cause some nasty side effects with long-term use at high doses, so I didn’t want to do that.

There is also pulmonary rehab (like PT, but for breathing) to optimize how the muscles are working together. If you wanted to do something DIY at home, there is a tool called The Breather (can get it on Amazon). It’s used to inhale and exhale against resistance, kind of like weight lifting for your breathing muscles. My father has dysphagia and it’s been helping him since he got stronger.

After reading this report I tried Benadryl and it helped enormously with shortness of breath and exertion intolerance. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8820139/

Make sure any rehab program is geared towards long Covid. The typical pulmonary rehab takes a “ramped” approach, which causes severe crashes for many people with LC.

@ferpmg, you may appreciate the tips shared in this discussion:
- What helps post COVID shortness of breath?
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I had covid for 36 days in March and a 17 day fever. Now I have edema and shortness of breath. I have tried heart, liver and urology doctors. None of those doctors say it their organ causing this. I finally went to the pulmonologist. I have a slight dimished breathing capacity but when I use my pulse ox it can go down to 80 when I walk. The pulmonologist gave me a Breo inhaler and it made my.lungs concrete instead of helping and he wont call back with other suggestions. Anyone know where to go?

@trevors What dosage of Benadryl do you take and what time of the day?

I stopped taking Benadryl because it was exacerbating some prostate issues, but I was taking 25mg three times a day.

Ask your doctor for Corlanor (ivabradine). It is wonderful, particularly if you have POTS. There are a number of publications on how this medication can help . If it works for you, you get relief in a matter of days

@trevors Did you have any issues with daytime sleepiness ?