i really need help....breathing problem

[thatdarrell]

i had bronchitis the last week of june....doctors says that it cleared up....but my breathing is still off...i cross the street and i am out of breath.....i still have a constant cough.....my body gets warm but i don't have a fever....and i am always tired....

some doctors say i have a little asthma....some say aniexty....and they all agree that they don't know...i am so worried....it's almost september and i still take deep breathes....and have a contant dry cough.....i dont know what to do....

can someone please help me

thanks
d.

[doesntmatter]

I have a similar problem. It started with strep throat back in January, and 6 months later i am still having problems breathing, swallowing, coughing... I have seen many doctors on the subject, but without fail i leave the clinic with the same diagnosis (asthma, allergies, or anxiety). I have never been tested beyond a peak flow and i cant seem to get anyone to listen to me. I am unresponsive to the medications that have been given. Similiar symptoms to darrels, hot without fever, unproductive cough, problems swallowing, tightness in chest... This isnt the first time ive been in this situation where following sickness i have had prolonged problems breathing. I have taken many medications along the lines of Qvar, Advair, Flonase, etc... What should i be doing, the strain of the sickness is making me very weary.

[National Jewish Health]

If you truly had acute bronchitis in late June and do not currently have asthma, severe enough to cause constant shortness of breath, you should not be experiencing this degree of shortness of breath.  A cough that persists this long could be due to asthma but the persistence, in a person who had no cough before, suggests the diagnosis of pertussis, commonly called whooping cough.  You should probably see a lung specialist to be examined, have a chest x-ray and pulmonary function tests, to get to the bottom of this.  Your symptoms do not suggest anxiety, as the primary diagnosis, but you may be experiencing anxiety because this illness has not cleared-up.