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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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On meds for GERD. GERD comes & goes, but I feel more inflammation than reflux.
My doctor was clueless on my symptoms & told me to breath into my diaphragm more. It’s almost like a door is being shut in my airways. Like my throat is closing in.. Not my diaphragm!
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Inflammation of the airways could be related to asthma. Have you gotten checked out for that or are you aware of other asthma symptoms? One way to test the inflammation is if you hold your breath for 20 seconds or so and then breathe normally, this will cause temporary vasodilation and temporary relief of inflammation in some areas where it's occurring. For example, I do this for clogged sinuses to get temporary relief and it opens them up after having held my breath a few times. If you do some breath holding and normal breathing cycles, this would test if there is indeed a lot of inflammation. Let me know what you find out.