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LPR can cause all the feelings that the OP suggested in his opening thread and LPR can also incur due to neuropathy but it isn't autonomic dysfunction. For those with GERD, LPR, and reflux, especially LPR reflux meds are not enough. They only modulate reflux and don't cure it.
Additionally, many of us are reporting exercise tolerance and actually our breathing improves while exercising so again one of the symptoms of autonomic neuropathy is crossed off. Another test I've done is to use ppi's at high dose and see that my running does improve and if I get off I feel it gets worse again.
Feeling a little lightheaded or dizzy is normal after standing up, and more notably with autonomic and gastro related symptoms you need to look at if you feel full after eating a few bites and the rate your body digests food with a gastric emptying study. Most cases are due to a mechanical issue of the sphincter causing silent reflux and then exposing irritants like pepsin, acid, gasses, and bile into the throat which can inflame your airways giving you a false sense of athsma.
LPR diets are also wildly successful and iv'e seen a remarked improvement in symptoms since starting one, but breathing is an involuntary autonomic process and if breathing tests are coming up normal it isn't autonomic neuropathy or athsma causing these symptoms but in fact LPR.
So in summary, if your heart rate adjusts properly during exercise, breathing gets better, your appetite is fine while eating, all these are signals that your autonomic nervous system are working fine. Our breathing is normal but the perception in breathing is not there since there's a congestion factor that isn't athsma prevalent due to the lpr
A lot of us here have normal blood pressure, no arrhythmias, diagnostic tests coming back out fine, so its more likely this is psuedo dyspnea as i wrote about before which is caused by esophagitis, "sensory" nerves, and airway reflux,.
I only write this because I think you're scaring some people here by suggesting its some high hanging fruit thing causing these things.