Lately, when I drink coffee, I have difficulty breathing or shortness of breath. This only began after being on hydrocodone medication for a back injury for a month -- 10mg 4 days a week for about 4 weeks.
Hydrocodone might have caused an acid imbalance in my stomach which coffee triggers to cause the issue. However, eating lots pizza or other food you think would cause the same problems, does not produce the same results.
I also had a fever recently while on hydrocodon, no cold symptoms, just a high fever. I decided to stop taking it. I also noticed the shortness of breath while I was taking the hyrdocodone.
Normally, I can drink aroun 300-400 milligrams of caffeine without issues, so what is the deal?
It's been about two weeks since I stopped taking the hydrocodone or coffee regularly, but when I do, I get shortness of breath.
The shortness of breathe is alleviated when I eat sugar of all things...
I might have hypoglycemica -- fair chance I say, but this is the first time I couldn't drink caffeine.
I'm wonderng if the caffeine is lowering my blood sugar causing the issues, this being exasperated by the hydrocodone use (which also lowers blood sugar). Is it a combination of stomach acid and hypoglycemia.
Any advice on what I can do for a differential diagnosis here?
I have no health insurance btw...