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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@barry98888

I was misdiagnosed with anxiety disorder years ago, after I claimed that my job had destroyed my health. The local mental health clinic refused to accept the finding of the specialist anxiety clinic that my levels of anxiety were perfectly normal given physical symptoms. It took me years to put together the full picture of the collapse of my health, requiring multiple diagnoses, operations, years of test results, and something my brother remembered. At the time my health collapsed my brother remembered observing that my skin had turned orange. Years later I was diagnosed with gall stone induced jaundice, requiring removal of my gall bladder. It turns out that both toxins and exertional heat stress can induce short term acute liver failure, inducing bilirubin discolouring of the skin such as my brother had observed. Collapsing from heat stroke following this appears to have induced short term kidney failure, exacerbating long term nephrotic syndrome and inducing hyperalbuminuria/hypoalbuminemia. Low levels of albumin in the blood causes thickening and scar tissue of the wall of the gall bladder, such as they found when they removed my gall bladder. This explained the onset of gall stones soon afterwards. The only abnormal liver test result which occurred, each time gall stones induced more liver injury, was raised gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT). All other liver test inflammatory markers were within low/normal range because I already had impaired liver function. As for the sobbing sound which occasionally when I breath or talk, it likely relates to the phrenic nerve, which apparently connects to the liver. Apparently, a way of knowing whether this can be occurring is if you are experiencing pain in the right shoulder blade. As I experience pain in both shoulders I can't be sure. The phrenic nerve controls the function of the diaphragm and damage to it can result in diaphragmatic flutter, inducing the fluctuating breath I experience.

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Wow thanks for sharing your experience @barry98888! I'm sorry you went through all of this, but glad you were able to pinpoint what the issues were. I hope you have everything under control and glad that you made all these connections. Not everyone is able to do this, so I think your'e definitely one of the lucky ones!