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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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It appears there is no treatment. Many people evidently have it and don’t even know it until found in a routine CXR by a radiologist with keen eyes.
Mine is paralyzed in the “up” position, which places my lung in the “smallest volume” possible.
It seems to affect me most when walking up stairs. I can handle 2 flights, but then it’s as if someone sucks the air out of the room. So I am learning to be “mindful” about any unnecessary exertion when possible.
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Interesting. I've never heard of that before, but could definitely explain what you're experiencing. I know there are different diaphragm strengthening exercises, so I'm wondering if you can do exercises to help strengthen it, and maybe even get it to move somewhat normally again. If you Google 'diaphragm exercises' there are some good videos that I've used in the past to help me to use more of my diaphragm when breathing, which are also good strengthening and exercise moves. You might also be able to do lung expansion and breathing exercises to help expand the lungs. I'm partial to the Buteyko method, though it's not really to expand lungs but more of learning to breathe less, but I've looked into lung expansion therapy and various breathing exercises designed to both slow breathing while expanding the lungs such as the 4-7-8 method.