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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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What is your BMI?…….What is your height and weight? Being generally overweight, or carrying a belly - can cause shortness of breath. Another possibility, are smells! Some people are sensitive to various smells……which can cause shortness of breath. It’s tough to test for this issue…….
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I'm 5.2. I weigh 117. I'm petite and not sure of my BMI but I think it's fine. So not overweight. I don' t have a spleen. I'm on Prozac 40 mgs but want to get off of it. It's not helping with the breathing. I have no side effects from it tho. I've been meeting online with a respiratory physiologist from the UK. She thinks I have a breathing pattern disorder - air hunger/sighing.
The breathing started first out of nowhere and then I developed coughing, fever, sore throat 6 days later. Tested positive for covid. I've been calling it long haul covid but don't know. It was an out of the blue onset with the breathing. Thanks for any ideas you may have. It's been going on for 16 months, recovery for a few days, then relapse.