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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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Thomason, thank you for sharing your experience. I’m glad to hear that you’ve found a way to resolve and manage those problems. COVID seems to be wreaking havoc on the human population. Was it ever claimed whether or not the paralysis was due to the past tracheotomy or the virus?!? Any other symptoms that would indicate some sort of bilateral paralysis. I’ll keep trying for the endoscopy. Lastly, one other I forgot to mention, at my request the ENT checked my nasal passages and found them pretty swollen (allergies?!?!?). Prescribed a nasal spray to open them up. Perhaps unblocked nasal passages may help in my ability to breathe easier.
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The doctors do not know what caused the paralysis. It took an esophagus scoping (is that also called an endoscopy?) where the doctor slides the tube up through one nostril, down into the throat area, to find the tumor. Even a CT scan did not detect it! Yet, after the radiation, shortness of breath was not an issue. It came on after the second bout with Covid, so I am assuming Covid was the culprit. Maybe, it was a bit of both. Please give the Primetene Mist a try, as it is the only thing that helped me before the tracheotomy. I hope the nasal spray helps you, because shortness of breath is miserable to have.