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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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@jarv

Hi everyone, thank you so much Gabe for the post. I've been suffering from this for the past 2 years, without knowing what it was and I genuinely felt completely alone. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one having this weird disorder that most doctors either think its not important or went with totally wrong diagnostics.

Like most of us here, 2 years ago when I was driving, I suddenly had SOB out of nowhere. I am an anxious person overall but that period of my life was quite normal and stress-free actually. I went to the doctor, they checked everything, found nothing wrong and sent me to a psychiatrist. I used anti-depressants for 1.5 years, it overall helped me with my anxiety but the breathing problem was almost always there. I just didn't care about it like I used to because I wasn't necessarily worrying about it all the time. Its been a while since I'm off my meds now and I had some sleep apnea symptoms last week which freaked me out. Meanwhile I was having SOB on a daily basis, pretty much living with it, yawning at important meetings since I couldn't get enough breath.

I'm also suspicious its relevance with Laryngopharyngeal reflux. I've been showing its symptoms for a long time and 99% sure I have it, wasn't aware of the connection to SOB and its severity before. I'll be seeing a doctor about it soon and will update here with some results.

Thank you everyone for posting their experiences here.

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@jarv, I'm glad you found others with a similar experience. I know it always helps when you don't feel so alone like I did back in 2012 when this started for me. Since then, this community has been developed hopefully as a good resources for anyone with similar symptoms who can sift through and find something that could help.

Just recently I've been focused on my health more, where I've started walking daily and slowly improving my eating habits. For the first time in years, I've been off of PPIs for an extended time for my GERD and while I've had some reflux symptoms, it comes and goes. Whereas when I've tried in years past to get off of PPIs, I would have constant heartburn and reflux. So I still think there is some connection because my air hunger has also slowly improved at the same time.

I'd definitely be interested in knowing what your doctor has to say about your symptoms especially if they discover reflux. Let me know!