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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@ailuj70

Hello Gabe,
Your message was the first I read (I'm new to this forum -didn't realize there was one. The Mayo Clinic site is my favourite to look up health issues).
I was somewhat relieved to read your comments and many others on this SOB.
Although I've had this all my life .. but as I mentioned in one of my threads, it was maybe once a year and usually when it was very humid out - in summer.
I'm 71 now and maybe there's issues that I don't know of and no one has discovered.
As soon as I see my Dr, I will mention the Buteyko method.
I'd like to see what he says about this Dyspnea. As I mentioned before he is a new Dr for me.
Yes I am eventually able to get a breath but it's with much work as I need to somehow get to yawn which as you know is sometimes difficult to do as yawning is usually automatic, otherwise I just have to try and wait to catch a deep breath. This is every couple of minutes so I'm very frustrated and tired and sometimes I just have to cry to relieve myself.
Didn't mean for this to be so long..
I will just quickly say this and not sure if there's any relation or maybe it's just made worse but it wasn't until I had the vaccine that I noticed this happening daily.
I'm triple vaxxed so the last one was mid January. The one before was in July and I had a short-lived episode of SOB.
Way too much info I know..
Having said all that, I'm hoping that this Dr will be able to help me in finding a solution for me if there is one as it's interfering with living.
Thanks so much for replying and I wish you great moments of easy breathing.

Julia

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Replies to "Hello Gabe, Your message was the first I read (I'm new to this forum -didn't realize..."

@ailuj70, I hope your new doctor will be able to provide some sort of answer.

No worries about too much info! Feel free to provide as much as you feel comfortable with. Everyone here is here to help each other and try to aid in getting to the bottom of our conditions.

A few Buteyko exercises might help you in the meantime. There are a few exercises you can look up on YouTube to try to do daily.

I assume your doctor will run various tests to see if anything unusual that might be contributing to this. Let me know how your doctor visit goes. It’d be interesting to know what he or she finds out.

Any known anxiety or GI issues? I ask because I’m finding that a lot of people with breathing issues have GERD or other GI issues so just curious if you do as well.