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JParr
08-21-2006, 01:46 AM
I've been having the "can't get a deep breath" sensation that seems popular on this board.
The symptoms include
"Weird clicking noise in my chest"
"Inability to get a deep breath"
"Sometimes better when yawning"
"Heavy feeling in abs"
"Muscle pain in back"
"Panic attacks that accompany it, sometimes not"
"Gets worse when alone"
"Gets better when not concentrating on it"

The reason I ask, is that all my doctors (ENT, Primary, Pulmonologist) are calling it allergy related asthma. I've always had mild asthma and allergies.
But apparently, my allergy score skyrocketed recently.
Although my lungs apparently sound clear as a bell....
I have a feeling it's NOT allergies...

The allergy doc wants me to do shots every week for a year.
My asthma doc wants me to do Xolair shots every month.
I've had both allergies and asthma my whole life and this problem doesn't feel related.

Anyone deal with this and get over it?

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aswander
08-21-2006, 06:20 AM
I'm thinking GERD - gastro esophogeal reflux disease. It isn't always accompagnied by heartburn. If your upper esophogeal spinchter is weak, some acid can escape the esophogous and get aspirated into the lungs.

But you may also be one of less common individuals who has the classic weak lower esophogeal spinchter muscle yet no heartburn, and acid is flowing into the lower esophogous. This is escpecially dangerous, because you can develop excessive damage without having had any of the classic heartburn symtpoms that would have led someone else to get treatment earlier.

The point is, the next doctor you need to see is a gastroenterologist, who may place you on Proton-Pump Inhibitors to reduce the amount of acid in your stomach. They may also recommend an endoscopy.

Since you saw an ENT, did the ENT "scope" you? That is, did he insert a thin wire with a camera at the end up your nose and down your throat? If he didn't, have him do so to check for redness and swelling in the laryngeal area.
That is also treated with Proton-Pump Inhibitors.

 
 
 




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