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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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I'm on the Facebook pages dealing with Long Haulers Covid and lots of people are taking antihistamines. In fact, when my breathing situation had just started, I found a prescription bottle of Hydroxizine, an anti-histamine, which a dr. had given me to relax before bed. I took a 10 mg. pill that night and I could just feel my chest calming down. Before I found that, I really was considering the ER.
Then I saw that a lot of people are using the combination of H1 and H2 to block histamine. Supposed to work together. Lots take Zyrtec (H1) with Pepcid AC (H2). It's worked for me (off and on). One of each, morning and night.
Also, avoiding or eliminating histamine foods is what lots of people are doing for the post covid shortness of breath.
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Thks. I am not on fb, great summary.
Interesting. Does this deal with specific allergies or just the breathing issue overall? It sounds like it does help with you breathing some. I haven’t taken the h1 and h2 combo but thank you for detailing what you do. I might consider that for my own allergies and to help deal with the sinus issues I have sometimes
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I am sorry you are going through this. Have you tried swimming? Sometimes that can help with breathing issues. https://www.usms.org/fitness-and-training/articles-and-videos/articles/5-reasons-why-swimming-is-great-for-lung-health. Swimming has helped me. I had undiagnosed severe asthma until two years ago and swimming was one thing that helped me.
Also have you tried a nebulizer? That can also help with SOB. Also do you regularly check your oxygen? You can get a device at Walgreens that you put on your finger to check.
Hope you get answers.