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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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SOB back after about 1.5 months of ZERO symptoms. Before that I had SOB for five months. Been a week so far of nonstop SOB. Had a very bad anxiety attack Sunday that I think MAYBE triggered it — but before that was outside all day Saturday so could have been something in the air? Not stressed/depressed. Nothing else has really changed but I did start drinking caffeine and alcohol again so I’ll go ahead and cut those back out for good.

For me it feels like my lungs are restricted, kind of like a flare up, deep in the middle of my chest, and when I breathe I sometimes wheeze. Sometimes I cough and it’s dry.

Not doing more tests because they found nothing last time. Lungs are great, no blood clot, heart ok but not suspected cause of this, anxiety under control except for Sunday because I didn’t feel well, stress at an all time low.

Doing breathing exercises helped as well as walking and distracting myself from discomfort. My main goal is to not let my SOB trigger more anxiety attacks.

I can wish I could pinpoint the cause of the SOB flare ups. I forgot just how exhausting dealing with it daily can be.

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Hmm... I think you may be your own diagnostician on this SOB issue. Keeping an informal journal might help. I am glad you have found your own coping strategies, because that SOB sensation can be so frightening!
Look at all the possible triggers:
Outdoors all day Saturday - reacting to pollen, pollution, sun, humidity or heat. Do you have known allergies?
Caffeine
Alcohol
Anxiety attack
Now you can introduce these factors one at a time, at least 7 days apart (except the anxiety!) and see what happens.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.
Sue