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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

Lung Health | Last Active: Oct 23 10:20am | Replies (3405)
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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.

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Gabe, Volunteer Mentor | @gabrielm | May 23, 2022

I think you mentioned about doing some diaphragm strengthening exercises. What sort of exercises did they have you do? I’ve wondered about that throughout my research. That something might cause a weakness in the diaphragm that might lead to air hunger.

Did you have any other lingering symptoms from Covid or was the breathing issue the only lingering one?

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