Just spent another three days in the hospital because of my breathing
problem. I'm having a hard time inhaling without there being heavy
pressure. And breathing like I just run a marathon. This time they did
another CAT scan and at least found out my lung blood clots are gone.
They also did a heart Echo, an ultrasound of my heart and it came out
fine. They also did a sniff test, and it showed my diaphragm was pretty
good. When I breathe feels like a rubber band around my chest. Then I
start breathing very heavy and my shoulders go up and down just cuz it's
so hard to breathe. It started seven or eight months ago, right after I
had an ablation of my heart to fix a flutter. I had to be intubated, and
right when I came out I was breathing like this and they thought I had
too much CO2. So I was on a respirator for a week or so. But after that
I still have the breathing issues. Since then I've had to be on a
respirator at night just to help me breathe easy enough to sleep.
I've been to at least three lung doctors, a couple different heart
doctors, the neurologist, a blood doctor, the quad doctor. No one can
figure it out.
I thought maybe it was just getting older, muscles and lungs getting
old, and my spine is curving a bit, but it happened so fast right after
the heart ablation.
I am scheduled for one more test, a stress test on my heart, I just hope
they can find something. I can't keep breathing like this it's
constantly hard to breathe and then gets really hard times. Like I've
run a marathon with someone sitting on my chest.
About 3 years ago I had a pleural effusion, where fluid fills up between
your lungs. It kept coming back and I wood drain about a liter and a
half a fluid once or twice a week. But I had a procedure to fix it. I
keep saying that's what it feels like, but they all keep saying there's
no fluid anymore in there.
I get so exhausted just typing a few words, haven't been able to go out
for almost 3 years. Just too tired and breathe too hard.
Any ideas,
thanks Greg
- [QUAD-L] Breathing Probnlem Greg
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