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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@gabrielm

Well it seems there may be a smoking gun (no pun intended!). That's certainly a good thing as most people don't have a link to the symptoms, so that's good that there seems to be a link. If this was recent, I wonder if your body simply needs time to heal and come down from that, even if it's a few weeks/months. Do you feel the symptoms subsiding at all, even slightly?

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greent18 | @greent18 | May 16, 2023

Well, since I’m pretty young (22) I don’t think I have anything serious in terms of my heart. After self doctoring myself, which is never the best idea, I have also found that the left phrenic nerve pinch/damage matches my symptoms exactly. I feel much more anxious and cry more than usual. My breathing gets worse when I lay down as well. It turns out that COVID could potentially cause issues with the phrenic nerve. I feel more fine laying down than when getting into my car and driving. My left shoulder blade has a sharp pain when pressing in a certain spot that travels kinda on the left side of my neck and my left arm. It feels like a shock from the phrenic nerve being pinched/damaged. Turns out that a high dose of thc can also cause mild to servers phrenic nerve damage. I wish there was a quicker remedy as I’ve been having a very difficult time driving in the car which greatly impacts my life. In addition, I went down a slip and slide about 3 weeks ago and could have caused trauma to the phrenic nerve this was.

I got another set of blood tests for my thyroid and chemistry and everything came back perfectly normal.

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