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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@helena4000 I think it's because most general doctors only know about common ailments people have; common cold, allergies, injuries, etc. When it comes to something mysterious, they don't want to dig deeper to help find a cause because they just want to help conditions that they have general knowledge of. Specialists can definitely help more, but only in that one field that they're in. I know how it is though; my doctor barely ruled out a couple of things then just said anxiety. Here we are, being our own doctors!

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I think that's totally fine that they don't know everything. But they can't pretend that they know the answer when they don't. Pericarditis is something that can get rather serious if it's just left untreated. And I've had an entire month of it not being treated correctly. When my cardiologist told my doctor about pericarditis, my doctor even told me he'd have to look it up because he didn't know much about it. And then today, my doctor tells me that he doesn't have any work restrictions for me which I thought was odd. Every reference I've seen has said that you need to rest with this condition. And now tomorrow I have to just go back to work and I feel like crud. We have to be our own doctors, and keep pushing for them to find out what's wrong.