DH is experiencing recurring shortness of breath lately. It's not the sort where you're panting, like after exercise. It's like he can't fill his lungs fully, and has to keep consciously fighting to get a full breath. He's exhausted during it as well; it happened around Easter and he was in bed for 3 days. He had a slightly raised temperature that time too, though during the other 3 episodes, he hasn't. He doesn't have a cough or anything, and the time he had the raised temperature wasn't the first time it happened.
He's in bed now because he didn't get to sleep till very late last night, due to the breathing thing.
He tried my ventolin inhaler during one episode and it didn't make any difference. He tried ringing the GP the time with the temperature, and was diagnosed over the phone with a chest infection (even though he had no cough) and told to ring back in 3 days if it didn't clear up, but it did - temporarily.
Any ideas? I'm going to get him to ring the GP again tomorrow but I don't see him getting very far with that at the moment!
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Recurring shortness of breath
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UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 26/04/2020 11:46
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