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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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@debwks0504

I have this issue as well. Told I have GERD, but those symptoms are minimal. Worse at night when I lay flat/try to sleep. Have to yawn to get a satisfying breath. Am on asthma meds most of my life. But asthma meds do nothing for this issue. Seems GERD meds don’t either. All medical tests are normal as well. I do need to lose weight, which I’m working on. Often find if I “burp” it relieves trapped air. When I am forced awake at night, sometimes I can sit up, or walk a bit and the trapped air releases and I can sleep again. Would love to know what it is.

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Gabe, Volunteer Mentor | @gabrielm | May 5, 2023

@debwks0504, I'm not sure what, if anything, GERD relates to the air hunger breathing issue. I only suspect it because it seems to be so common with people who deal with chronic air hunger. Could just be a coincidence but I always still feel like there's some sort of connection. But like you, treating the GERD didn't necessarily decrease air hunger symptoms. It was the breathing and physical exercises that helped with this.

I too find that the air hunger seems to be a little worse when laying completely flat, so I just sleep in a recliner sitting mostly up and transfer to bed when I'm nice and drowsy and can usually sleep lying down much of the night.

Have you had anything else looked at? Any other tests done at your doctor, bloodwork, etc.?

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