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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@justlearning Thanks for taking the time to write out such a detailed post. I'm constantly going back and forth between whether this SOB is related to anxiety, breathing technique, GERD, or something else. I know a few people, including myself, have been taking anti-acid medicine for a while and still experience SOB. I've personally been on omeperazole for about two months and it's been difficult for me to tell if it's made a difference. I'm currently working to make adjustments to my diet to cut out any items that might be triggering GERD and overpowering the omeperazole. I look for patterns as much as I can... the first instant that the SOB hit me I was drinking a glass of red wine. Then this past Sunday I had a glass of red wine and the next two days were really bad breathing days. This makes me think that the high acidity of the wine can cut through anti-acid medications.

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justlearning | @justlearning | Mar 17, 2020

Red wine is a really bad trigger for GERD. I think a simple test at home would be to see if exercise makes your breathing better, whether it be doing the elliptical, weights, etc. If exertion helps this is pseudo dysepnia most likely triggered to LPR laryngopharyngeal reflux which is triggered by airway inflammation. It isn't true asthma so I would schedule a trip to the GI and ENT. An ent can find LPR by doing a trans nasal endoscopy but getting an endoscopy, barium swallow, etc can be foretelling to there being GERD.

Trust me this has built up over the years where i'll finally be getting surgery in June for it

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