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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
Lung Health | Last Active: May 27 5:58pm | Replies (3353)Comment receiving replies
Hey Gabe, thanks for the response.
First I want to make clear I’m not a doctor. I do plan to test some more, not sure what route yet. To answer your questions I’ve had these same symptoms described for about 8 months, everyday, some are worse than others.
If you don’t mind me asking a couple questions that other people could join in on as well. We have to find things or more symptoms we all have in common.
-Are your neck tendons/muscles super tight?
-Does it bother you to touch any part around your throat?
-Do your symptoms get worse with anxiety?
-Do you notice your symptoms subside when your mind is elsewhere?
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@kc05, in general I've had tight neck muscles. Probably just due to years of straining in front of a computer all day for work and just the stresses of life, but it doesn't really restrict any movement. The symptoms are the same whether or not I have anxiety. I don't get anxiety very much anyway, but if I'm a little anxious about something, it doesn't seem to affect the breathing at least that I've noticed.
It's interesting about the symptoms subsiding when distracted or concentrating. I have hobbies where I'm deeply concentrated and don't notice the symptoms a whole lot when I'm doing them. So either due to being distracted enough to not notice them, or that the mind perceives them less when it's focused on something. So that's definitely interesting, but a few years when the symptoms were worse, sometimes trying to distract myself didn't work.
Let me know what tests you plan on doing. Who knows if they will uncover anything, but at least it gives you a good overall idea of your health in general.