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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@theomonster- Your weight loss and current weight scares me unless you were 35 lbs over weight before and are under 5'. I suggest that you go back to your doctor. If your doctor isn't alarmed about this find another one who will pay attention to you. Weight loss can mean many things and with not being able to breath on one side when you sleep worries me even more.
As you know Mentors are not physicians so I can not give you a diagnosis or prognosis. But I can recommend going back to your pulmonologist or PC and take care in finding out what is causing your shortness of breath, weight loss and pain when you lie on one side in bed. Seeing a nutritionist at this point would be the last thing that I would do because your body isn't responding to food that you are eating and unless you are allergic to it all something else is causing your weight loss. Please take care and be an advocate for yourself. Find out what is going on! Will you do this?
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I asked my dr to see other specialists. But he insists I see a nutritionist first I have seen a lot of doctors, but always come up with no answers. I also feel like there is probably some underlying issues, but at this point things are moving slowly, and I’m getting nowhere fast.
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Just a little something to add. When I changed my diet because of medical problems I encountered the same shortness of breath. Somehow during the diet change and everything else it affected my kidneys. The kidney change affected the heart beat,enough for this symptom of shortness of breath to appear The doctor will explore and find the answer. With his/her treatment this should be corrected. But you must see the doctor as this could be something else and possibly a very dangerous condition.