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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@gabrielm I did go to the lung doctor a couple days ago. I can't it. He he also suggested the breathing exercises you told me to try. So it's been a couple days and it is getting a little better. Tolerable anyways. He thinks I did something to trigger some breathing problem where it is just about feeling. Like my brain and breathing are not on the same page. I am to call him if I do not get better but he said it can take a few days. So I have been trying to breath slower and do the exercises. My body is getting to much Carbon or oxygen one or the other and I try to Over breath I guess from what I got out of it. So kind of like some kind of anxiety I guess but not really at the same time. I just need to get my breathing back in sync with my brain because to me it literally feels like I'm not getting enough air. But yet I am. Just like how you describe yours. I will keep you posted. Thank you.
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this absolutely is how I feel. I'm seeing a respiratory physiologist, who suggests it's a breathing pattern disorder. It gets work with minimal amt. of exertion. She has me strengthening my diaphragm daily. It's been around 4 weeks. Not helping yet
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@cookie2009, I'm glad to hear that there's some improvement. That's interesting about what he said about it being about the feeling. I've wondered that for a long time, because most people here, including myself, have always had normal O2 levels which means we're definitely getting enough oxygen. It just doesn't seem to "register" in the lungs as the normal feeling. A few years back when I started the breathing exercises, it was like things synced up again for a while and then the problem came back. It's manageable and tolerable now, but I can't help but wonder that there might be some sort of disconnect. Do you plan on seeing other specialists in the future? I did see a few specialists some years ago to have a bunch of tests done, all of which came back normal.