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Shortness of breath

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melanie25681
melanie25681

Does anyone else have extreme shortness of breath and a feeling of lump in their throat? I dont feel anxious or anything! Just this horrible shortness of breath and like when i swallow something is sitting there.

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  • willis42
    willis42 melanie25681

    Posted

    Yes, I've had this too. It was bad at the beginning (one of the worst of my symptoms), but has calmed down since I started taking high dose Vitamin C and Monolaurin. I've noticed that it comes back slightly when I eat a heavy meal.

    It's not a very common symptom of mono, so I can't really explain it. But I just thought I'd let you know that you're not alone!

    • melanie25681
      melanie25681 willis42

      Posted

      thank you. its horrible and as i have asthma its making it all feel worse. i got to a point where i thought i was going to stop breathing! different month different symptom it seems. im so short of breath though its horrible! it comes and goes and sometimes it also feels like im just breathless.

  • craig07920
    craig07920 melanie25681

    Posted

    Hi Melanie,

    I have slight asthma too and remember when I had mono that I did feel more out of breath than normal, it may well be a combination of the two things which is just making the breathing not as clear as normal - my experience was that it all did settle down and get back to normal as I started to recover though, so hard to be patient though with mono as it can be stubborn and take a bit of time for many unfortunately.

    Hoping that everything settles for you - just a word of encouragement that this virus does get better with time - it really does even though it's so hard to see it when going through it, and all kinds of symptoms can happen in the throat, chest, glandular areas, etc during this virus.

    Hang in there and thinking of you.

    Craig

  • Izzy233
    Izzy233 melanie25681

    Posted

    did this ever get better for you? shortness of breath is my worst symptom of mono and i get scared that it will never go away.

    • Izzy233
      Izzy233 monica25949

      Posted

      Hi Monica,

      this was my worst symptom, i had it constantly but it did go away!! it took around 3 months for it to fully go away, but i understand how scary of a symptom it is. i went to the ER so many times and they never found anything wrong because it was just the mono causing it

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