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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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Hi Gabe,
I have struggled with this air hunger for two years now, i recently went through the testing for a hiatal hernia, although i did not experience any heartburn, and I do have one. Initial tests from chest x-ray and ultrasound did not spot the hernia, and so I really had to push to get further tests done. I really recommend that you do this.

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Yes indeed, I pushed to have more tests done early on, which helped in eliminating possible causes. Now that I've been able to maintain my breathing to near normal levels, I haven't had the need for further tests, but it's definitely turned into pushing myself to ensure I keep up my health and breathing exercises to keep the symptoms at bay.

Does the air hunger have varying degrees of severity or would you say it's pretty consistent throughout the day?

This story upset me. I was diagnosed with a hernia I wasted 6 months miserable waiting for sob to go and go and it never would I was scared to do anything I felt like I was gonna drop dead any second. Six months after a scope saw a hernia I did an ultrasound where there was no hernia or no significant hernia that would cause sob. Months later I finally saw what it was anxiety, I know you’ve been told this before and I would’ve said get out of here too. I really believe you have it. Look at my other posts. Dare, Shaan kassam and Claire weekes. Acceptance is how it goes away, doing nothing is how it goes away, stop caring about it and start only caring about life. It fixes itself by you doing nothing. That is acceptance. You have to live your life 100 percent as normal and bring this uncomfortable however horrible feeling(s) with you. It’s the only way. The more you try and focus on fixing it the worse it’ll get. And do not come back to me and say oh it’s been two weeks and it hasn’t worked. Anxiety is a paradox the more you care the more your body cares and looks for it the more it’ll find it be scared and produce more of it. I had zero mental anxiety when I had bad physical symptoms, but because I had it for so long and of course that means my reaction to symptoms was very poor I had to work on mental anxiety afterward when I stopped feeling physical sensations. But it is the same thing allowance. The more you try to rid yourself of a physical sensation/or a mental thought or whatever the worse it’ll get.