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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@churlgurl

I am having same issue. Was told in 2018 that I was just below 50% trachea collapse and could not diagnose with tracheobroncholamachia yet. That was at National Jewish Health in 2018. Since then everyone I have asked about it just ignores me. My PFTs show a blockage slowly gettinb worse but because CT looks normal they just keep ignoring. My Rheumatologist said a CT is not the right test to see it and have to go in and actually look at it, but no one wants to acknowledge the problem could be trachea collapsing and order what needs to be done. Meanwhile my O2 levels on pulse ox now dip into high 80’s.

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@churlgurl, I'm sorry you've been dealing with this. Seems like you need to really have that looked at. Oxygen in the 80s is not normal. I wouldn't give up with your doctors though, you might have to push them a bit and advocate for yourself. Do you have plans for any follow ups especially regarding the low O2?