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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@jwiegers17- I certainly can understand your anger. It also sounds as if you have lost hope. This is the worst feeling. It always makes me feel crazy and out of touch. It's really an overwhelming feeling. As you can see in all of these threads, it's not unusual to spend years finding a solution to SOB. You mentioned a couple of posts ago that you hadn't given your inhaler a chance to work. Inhalers take time to work. They aren't miracle drugs. There are some new inhalers out there that are very very good. You also mentioned that you were going to get a referral to a couple of people and a chiropractor. Have you met any of them? Is your weight as low as it could be? Have you looked into exercise-induced asthma and been tested for it?
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Unfortunately the medical community here in America does not take this issue seriously at all. I look completely normal on the outside, and present myself normally , have normal blood tests and scans, so they assume I’m all good and get tired of me when I come back. But this really has affected my quality of life, like really. I just feel uncomfortable all the time because of it. I lose my breath when I speak. I’m jealous of everyone else who can breathe freely without thought. I’ve left multiple jobs becuase of this. If this is anxiety, it is the weirdest manifestation of anxiety ever. I know people with anxiety and they only feel short of breath sometimes. Not 247 like me.
Again, mine is a constant feeling of chest tightness and can only take a satisfying breath it seems every so often. Like a cycle my body is stuck in. It’s confusing , maybe my body wants to breath shallowly, or maybe for some reason it literally physically can’t breathe normally for some reason . Not painful just uncomfortable.
On the plus side it isn’t as bad as it was a few years ago. There were times I literally wouldn’t get out of bed because sleep was my only escape. Crazy how this has happened, I’m just a 27 year old normal guy from California. thank you for your kind words and concern, maybe I’ll give another inhaler a try but idk about that. I’ll let you know if I ever figure it out.