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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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I have a heavy chest sometimes. It's not painful, it just feels like someone is sitting on my chest. I know due to covid noone wants to go anywhere but perhaps a trip to the ER would be appropriate. But Your doctor should work with you to see you or at least have an over the phone appointment with you. I can't see them rejecting all patients they probably just aren't doing routine check up appointments.
Your exhaustion could be due to the anxiety you've been experiencing because of your shortness of breath. When I'm anxious, it exhausts me.
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@tamaracaitlin You are right to push on your doctor. I have compiled a list of about 250 symptoms and medical signs which would point toward my autoimmune disease, and I have been medically diagnosed with about 200 of them including blood work, urine, various scans, etc., I have tried to get one of the 1-AAA labs to do molecular diagnostics with me, and they have so far refused. They have said that "Even if we diagnose it, there is no cure and no treatment for what you appear to have, (Gelsolin) so it does not matter anyway." Shows you the quality of health care in Oregon.
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I can't do anything normally. I wanna do some tests to see if there's anything wrong but my doctor doesn't see any patients