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Just wondering if anyone has shortness of breath without any coughing symptoms? I cough occassionally, but not often. When I am physical, however, I get very short of breath like I don't have enough air.
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Do You Cough with SOB
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- By chawkes
- Posted November 2, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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I do all the time. My Dr. told me it was pleurisy. (Apparently ther is wet pleurisy and dry pleurisy) he said I had dry pleurisy. This is when the lining of your lungs get inflamed and the layers rub against each other when you breath. I also get sharp pains with mine on occassion. Sometimes it feels like some one blew me up with air there is so much pressure in there. I don't know if you experience that or not but if you do it may be an indicator of inflimation in your lung walls. Just another fun symptom to this fun disease!
- By Tawney
- Posted November 2, 2009 at 6:12 pm
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I get SOB upon exertion and during flares but have absolutely no cough.
- By dollh
- Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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I get sob with exertion and I am on oxygen full time because of it. Coughing is not a common problem for me. I cough every once in a while but not often.
dollh
- By JackieP
- Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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I have started having a dry cough every now n' then. Mostly when I try to hold a conversation or doing some activity.
- By barbsnewlife
- Posted November 2, 2009 at 10:42 pm
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I have not yet had a diagnosis but...I wheeze mostly at night and only cough a little, I am on 3 different inhalers for a month now without much help, my doc thinks I have reactive airway disease not sarc, my dad has had lung sarc for about 30 years now and he coughed all the time but I don't remember him being short of breath. I find when I am very active I do better, as soon as I sit down to rest it seems to start. Some days are not too bad others like tonight I am really short of breath and talking is difficult. I wish I knew for sure if I had sarc !
- By Tawney
- Posted November 2, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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Have your doctors given you an explanation as to the why of your SOB? Is it a lung issue?
- By kkupsky
- Posted November 3, 2009 at 4:42 am
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My doctors are playing ping-pong with me at the current time. My open lung biopsy showed there was evidence of sarc. So it is like this....you have it, you don't, you have it, you don't... So I don't see the doctors anymore. I can't put the energy into it. My right side of my chest hurts like someone kicked me and upon exertion I get SOB like I am trying to suck air and there isn't any available. Besides that I hurt constantly - and the list goes on and on. Tingling and numbness etc. My main concern is the SOB, but since I am not coughing they don't worry. I just feel like part of my lung isn't working. My O2 sats stay around mid 90's though so I presume it isn't that bad yet.
- By DoreenC
- Posted November 3, 2009 at 8:55 am
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I get the Shortness of breath daily and only maybe a few times a month I get a dry cough. I also get chest pain.
If your biopsy showed sarc, you have sarc. Normal people don't go around caring sarc in their lungs without having the disease. ANd a lack of cough never excludes the diagnosis of sarc.
I would suggest finding an expert. Most docs know nothing to very little about the disease. The best thing I ever did was get to the docs who know the disease, which you usually find at major medical centers. I go to Cleveland Clinic in Florida, but am heading to Ohio's to the Sarc Center soon.
Best of Luck and Please go and get to someone who can help as soon as possible. Your body is telling you something is wrong.
Doreen
Help and information from FSR
Sarcoidosis is a "multiorgan" disease - meaning it almost always involves more than one organ. It's unpredictable and affects different people in different ways.
You can learn about the ways in which sarcoidosis affects the body in FSR's Sarcoidosis and the Body brochure.
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