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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@jduffy- Doxy is very rough stuff. I hope that you ate something before taking it. I took it in the hospital when I had pneumonia a few years ago and they didn't offer it with food. Boy was I sick. If this gave you burning and tight chest sensations then you were most likely also experiencing SOB due to the side-effects of the Doxy. Also, I take Prilosec and it took me much longer for it to really take effect.
A couple of months ago when I was in my Pulmonologist's office I asked him what the main cause was for SOB now and he said that it was people being overweight, not heart conditions as most people think. I get much shorter of breath if I gain 5lbs. He said that people need to change their life habits including weight control. I hope that your acupuncturist helps you.
Can you tell us what some of the changes were that he changed for you?
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Hi, the instructions said do not eat two hours before or after taking so I didn’t for 5 weeks. Had no idea what it would do geez! But I had the SOB weeks before starting the doxy. I am definitely on my way to losing this extra 20 lbs. already lost 10lbs dealing with this. But thats hopeful to hear if I lose more weight this sob might subside. As for diet. It’s interesting, if you google hepatonia it will lead you to the other 7 body types that exist according to this approach. There’s 8 total. The acupuncturist determines your body type by pulse and based on that you eat according to your body type. I am supposed to eat beef, protein but NO seafood or green leafy items. It sounds so ridiculous I know. But I will say I stopped eating beef and milk about three years ago when the allergist said I was mildly allergic. When I recently went to the allergist for another prick test( One month after the sob attack) I was completely not allergic to beef. So strange. But then he told me that the prick tests are about 40-50% false positive for allergies! So I might have never been allergic to beef. Anyway so this whole time I havnt been eating beef and this acupuncturist did not know that. So now I’m eating about 3oz of Lean organic beef 5 days a week, root vegetables (something about eating only vegetable under the ground) all citrus and melons, zucchini apparently is fine. It seems crazy I know but I’m trying to use conventional western healthy guidelines as well but def staying away from seafood and greens. He’s saying it about what foods are harmful to my body type rather than loading up on the foods I can eat like beef so it’s moderation on what I eat
And avoid the things that are harmful. Hope this makes sense.
I was wondering, does anyone get a cough when you exhale deeply? I seem to get an occasional dry, very brief cough when I exhale deeply and only at the end of the exhale.