I have shortness of breath and i don t know if it s from gerd help i feel depressed....

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hello i am 23 years old female and from July my life has changed a lot. In July i had virus both me and my boyfriend it was without fever only a lot of fatigue a lot of dehudration, feeling really sick a lot of coughing sneezing runny nose and still i have problem with the nose i cannot breathe without nasal spray. So the virus was lasting aroun 2 weeks. After e days i got well i wake ip ine morning with this really short but sharp stabbing pain behind my sternum which radiated to my back and it was whole day long, later that day i was at work and had still the pain suddendly i felt like warm sensation in my chest and shortness of breath weakness in my left hand and i pannicked i thought i am having a heart attack.I couldn't come to myself 1 h i the warm sensation passed but i had this extreme weakness and pain on my left rib cage under my breast i went to ER they ve told me i was having pannick attack but the doctor put me ekg and blood test. The ekg was normal but the blood test was crazy. My leukocites,monoxytes,neutrophils and. lymphocites where all high. They ve told its just a virus and i will time to recover if i didn t feel better to fo for x ray and ct scan .So the next couple of days i could not go out of bed because i was in extreme pain in all my rib cage esecialy my left under the breast and i felt extreme fatigue and fear. After 4 days i had the same attack but my boyfriend was telling me that i have pannick atack and i need to stop worry so i decide to relax and feel better, next day i felt better and i didn t have any pain and the night i smoked cigaretws not a lot not little. The next morning on 11th of August i wake up with terrible terrible shortness of breath i was gasping for air and every time i wanted to take a deep breath my right chest and back was hurting a lot after 3 days i was the same only that changed was that the pain moved from the right place and come back to the center shor sharp and stabbing just like the first day. It last for 1 week the pain and after that left the shortness of breath stayed together with the chest rib cage pain and plus i had a lot of burping. After sutting with this symptoms and going through hell i went to check my blood again and make virus check. i came that i had Epstein barr virus somwhere in the past and probably mononucleosis,my blood test was fine and everything came back to normal.After 3 weeks i still had very big nausea shortness of breath wjich improved a little bit and a loot of burping. I went to doctor they ve told me to do endoscopy and colonoscopy i did it now before 12 days and they ve told me my les it s little open something like hiatal hernia but no so big and prescribed me with esomeprazole 40 mg once daily plus i did blood test again and again leukocites monocytes neutrophols eusophils and lymphocites where high. They ve told me that they don t know what i have probably is the mono.I am taking the pills now the burping stoped a little the shortness pf breath improuved 80% but i have a lot of sharp pains on my left side and my rib cage till hurts i am drinking a lot of vitamins and everything.Done blood test again now everything again to normal . But still habing pain from time to time of my left rib cage under breast when taking deep breath and the burping problem is not 100% improved plus i stoll have shortness of breath and terrible aniety.. i would like some opinion and help because i ak really desperate 😦(((( i don t know if its costohondritis mononucleosis gerd or some other thing...

thank you very much for every response

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    Hi sweetheart, I've suffered with gerd for many years I also have hiatus hernia, like yourself I suffer with chest and rib pain which is costocondritis, sounds very much like this is what you are suffering from, stress makes these things seem worse....try some deep breathing, often when we are anxious we don't breathe properly, I was a nurse for 35 years and a little knowledge can be dangerous in the wrong hands lol try the deep breathing and perhaps for the reflux try gaviscon advance good luck and try not to worry too much your very young and I doubt there is anything ominous going on. Regards Jo xx

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      thank you very much for your reply i will try the deep breathing 😃

      Regards Kaja xx

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