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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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As ive said a thousand times the way doctors test for is it anxiety or not is a few things.
1. If the SOB gets no worse during exertion
2. If the oxygen levels are normal WHILE you feel SOB(in a case of an allegy flare up it you would only feel SOB while that flare up occurred which is unlikely to coincide when you get tested by pulmonary doctor
These two things can make a doctor conclude most of the time that it is pseudodyspnea.
Just a question in your case, you got tested and it said you were allergic to dairy and gluten. Or did the symptoms disappearance coincide with when you werent eating dairy and gluten
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Again - just because the doctors didn’t find anything with their tests, doesn’t mean there is no physiological cause. We don’t know everything. We are still learning things about human body. When you have SOB you usually go to the pulmonary doctor. BUT IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE A PROBLEM WITH YOUR LUNGS. It can be allergies, it can be from spine, it can be from stomach, it can be from esophagus.
No it didn’t coincide. It was because of that.
I know how anxiety feels like. I actually experienced it quite a few time in the past 2 weeks. And guess what. No SOB. You know why? Because I stay away from my triggers. Because the problem wasn’t anxiety in the first place.
I’m not denying the effect of the mind on the body. But to tell people that if the doctors didn’t find anything it’s just anxiety and you should just move on with your life is really not a good advice. Have you even experienced it yourself? If you have you would know that it can’t be ignored.
I think you are biased towards one cause because that’s what you study and care about obviously.