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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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Threat level midnight~One of my favorite episodes of The Office! You chose a fun @name.
Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect!

Not so fun is the breathing issue. You’re not alone in this!
We have a very active group of fellow members experiencing similar issues. @gabrielm @sprucy11 @jenh1128 @eamon11235 @vfparker are all currently having conversations with similar symptoms. Hopefully they’ll be able to offer some suggestions for you.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mysterious-shortness-of-breath/
Was there anything that changed in your eating, health, or activities that you can correlate with the first event?

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Hello. Since my original post I went to a pulmonologist at University of Michigan for a second opinion. The good news is that he feels my bronchiectasis is being well managed and agrees with what my doc has done. He did refer me to ENT. My first visit was last week. It seems I have Kender diverticulitis. Mucus and food get deposited in a pouch and at a point it makes me cough and sometimes vomit the contents of that. I have another test coming and then probably surgery. Here’s why I am giving all this detail - I blamed my bronchiectasis and even told my pulmonologist my symptoms a year ago. Issue originally was not being able to breath/swallow past where the Adam’s apple is and needing to massage my throat to dislodge it. It has nothing to do with my other diseases and glad I pushed to follow through.