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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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I do have anxiety sometimes but it’s normally stress from work. The SOB does make me anxious when it starts. I don’t take any of the medications that an antacid would block. I am not on any medication on a daily basis. I used to take allergy medicine everyday but I stopped because eventually it stopped being as effective. So now I take it when I really need it. I’m glad I ran across this forum last night. Most things you google come back asthma related or you’re having a heart attack. I am going to call my doctor about an albuterol inhaler and an antacid.
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@pandakay727 You are correct. Using antihistamines all the time for allergies causes them to loose their effectiveness. My doctor told me this. Allergy shots are better, but they need to be retested every couple years and the doses readjusted. Your exposure to high levels will affect your response and it will need to be tested more often. Stress also affects this and may require a dose change in allergy shots. It takes more time and money, but the results are better. My doctor tests these things individually by injecting it under the skin, and then makes a custom extract for my injections. For example, each mold species is tested individually, it is not a mix of things tested all at once, and they find the maximum dose that I can tolerate for each one that doesn't cause a skin reaction, and that is the treating dose that is mixed into my extracts for injections. The doctor is an environmental medicine doctor who does this. I have to do allergy shots about every 4 days when things are in season. They trained me how to do them, and that makes it easy.