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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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Happy to come across this post I have had the exact same symptoms from March 25th until beginning of June it went away for about a month and is back again. I have been to ENT everything was fine mild inflammation so prescribed inhaler and Flonase they did nothing for me. Prilosec seemed to put a band aid over it I have recently gone to my doctor and he has diagnosed me with anxiety I don’t believe that is the case. I have also scheduled an appointment with a cardiologist and pulmonologist. I am a serious power lifter and am worried I have something serious going on possibly an aortic aneurysm or intercostal strain but I find myself continuing to yawn 75-100 times a day to catch a big breathe with immense pressure on my chest everyday as if someone is sitting on my chest. If these two test come back normal I have no other ideas. I have had an ekg/normal x ray/normal /blood test/normal
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@camslam35, happy you came across this post too! But sorry that you have these symptoms. I assume the inflammation is due to acid reflux or something else? For me I've noticed that if I have reflux and I forgot to take the prilosec for a day, it will feel like there's a large weight on my chest. Definitely not a pleasant feeling but the medication does help.
The tests may come back normal for you, but it's possible that there may still be something there that the main tests won't pick up. I think there are a lot of tests that could reveal something, but those usually take time to figure out what you might test for.
Do you recall any specific event that may have led to the symptoms first developing, such as a weightlifting event or something else, or did it come about some other way?