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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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@boughner13

Hi Tonya, this is interesting because in the summer of 2020 I began experiencing odd health issues. I am a healthy and active 43 year old male. However, in June 2020 I began to have aches and pains throughout my body. I would wake up in the morning with pain in my shoulders, elbows, wrists, and neck. It was really bad. Then a few weeks later my knees started swelling up along with my ankles. It was so weird because I knows I hadn’t twisted anything. My primary care physician couldn’t find anything wrong. I finally went to an Ortho physician because my knees were so swelled up (both never swelled up at the same time). He drained my left knee and sent it for testing but everything came back fine. He referred me to a rheumatoid specialist because he thought maybe I had rheumatoid arthritis. That doctor sent me for tons of blood work - seriously they took 20 viles of blood from me! Everything came back fine within a few days. Then one night about 2 weeks after the other results, I had an email that stated new test results were in. I opened it and it showed I had tested positive for Lyme! I google the symptoms and I had just about every one of them except the bulls eye. The put me on doxycycline and within 2 weeks I started feeling great. Then about 4 months later I started have this need to take a dee breath out of no where. My doctor requested an echo, pulmonary function test, X-ray. Everything looked fine. She put me on panteprazone for 30 days for GERD but really did nothing. I finally convinced my doc to refer me to an infectious disease specialist to see if they can find if I have lingering effects from Lyme. But as some others indicated, i really wouldn’t call my issue shortness of breath. I can still work out and run and actually feel better after doing so. It’s sitting at my work desk or watching TV that I seem to notice it the most. My wife says I don’t do it during my sleep. Oh, and they also thought I might have anxiety but I don’t think that’s it.

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Hi @boughner13, glad you recovered from the Lyme disease. Wondering if any of the medication you went on caused the breathing issue. Do you think the symptoms started around the time you started taking a medication?