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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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I have gone to a million different doctors as well asking them if they’ve ever heard of air hunger. My primary doctor if talked to a bajillion times and he says it anxiety. I, like you, get the anxiety from the inability to get a good breath. I have even done a nuclear stress test and it came by good. I’ve always thought it was my heart causing it but I have a healthy heart. I’m currently taking 50 mg of Benadryl and boy does it have me feeling short of breath causing major anxiety. I complain to my husband about it and bless his heart he tries to help but it doesn’t help lol. He just doesn’t understand where I’m coming from. I thought I was the only person in the world that has this problem. When I’m distracted, I don’t notice it, when I sleep, it doesn’t wake me up. Sometimes going to sleep, I will jump and get startled because of my breathing. I get short of breath talking and it’s embarrassing. I don’t want to live the rest of my life like this as this is no way to live. I pray all the time for Gods help.
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@fefemagee, have you gotten any cardiovascular tests or lung function tests done?
Are you aware of reflux condition called silent GERD? It is called silent because the person is not aware that they have it and it may cause breathing problems.
Also, I have been told that there are 2 types of sleep apnea, one is obstructive and the most common while the other is not. I have the one that is not obstructive and I do wake with a startle (not too often) and resume normal breathing.
that sounds just like me and mine was physical anxiety. you just said when you are distracted you dont notice it. cant you see then it is false shortness of breath? it is anxiety, my primary doctor said the same and boy did i not believe her at all, but please im begging you give this a chance. HOPE AND HELP FOR YOUR NERVES- CLAIRE WEEKES, AT LAST A LIFE- PAUL ADAM, DARE BOOK FOR ANXIETY, AND SHAAN KASSAM ON YOUTUBE.
it goes away when you live your life with or without the symptoms, just as you say when distracted with life. when you do that you tell your body there is no danger so it stops fuelling your body with adrenaline and stress to your nerves. ANXIETY PARADOX ON INSTAGRAM ASWELL, look if you cant accept the anxiety diagnosis, look up other terms, physical anxiety, pseudodyspnea, sensorimotor ocd, somatic ocd, nervous illness. get behind any of them please and simply put how you recover is by living life fully and not caring how strong the sensation is. that is how you do it in basic terms but the books/online stuff goes into way much more detail.
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I don't know whether this will help but it helped to explain my issues. It isn't exactly in the news that a lot of foods in our diets can contain the heavy metal cadmium. Prior to my discovery of my allergy to gluten mine was wheat. Grains seem to love absorbing cadmium and I made the mistake of switching to rice, another grain high in cadmium. Unfortunately, I also had the added issue of working in a glass factory, with cadmium used as a colouring of the glass emitted in gaseous form during production. I've been surprised by the range of issues such seemingly insignificant exposures can cause, including shortness of breath.