For those unsure as to how/why they're experiencing DP/DR all the time......
If one of your troubles is being short of breath, try taking a pulmonary function test.
I have had two over the past 5 years and did terrible each time. Even though I'm a non-smoker I was told that I breathe like an 80 year old.
I'm always short of breath even though nothing medically can explain the shortness of breath.
When I'm lying flat on my back, watching my belly rise and fall as I breathe in and out, my abdomen will quiver and spasm quite prominently.
Was wondering if anyone else experiences this. The diagnosis is "diaphragmatic flutter" and it can cause DP/DR 24/7, which is what I've been struggling with the past 11 years.
It seems that this diagnosis is super rare, with only about 40 reported cases in the past several decades. And everyone with the problem eventually ended up on disability (all of this is according to the information I've found in medical journals online).
After all, with "diaphragmatic flutter" not only do you experience DP/DR 24/7, but also constant shortness of breath or choppy, uneven breathing to go along with the DP/DR. It makes "life" quite incapacitating.
Even though the problem appears to be pulmonary, those with acid reflux should be checked by a GI doctor. Acid can come up the throat and then go down into the lungs, where an infection can start.
"Diaphragmatic flutter" may result from forced breathing being superimposed over natural breathing. As a result, the whole natural body/breath rhythm is thrown off.
Can anyone relate to this "diaphragmatic flutter" or am I pretty much on my own with this one? Just wanted to post this in the event someone else experiences similar quivers in their belly and is not sure what is going on.
Best Wishes,
Jeff
If one of your troubles is being short of breath, try taking a pulmonary function test.
I have had two over the past 5 years and did terrible each time. Even though I'm a non-smoker I was told that I breathe like an 80 year old.
I'm always short of breath even though nothing medically can explain the shortness of breath.
When I'm lying flat on my back, watching my belly rise and fall as I breathe in and out, my abdomen will quiver and spasm quite prominently.
Was wondering if anyone else experiences this. The diagnosis is "diaphragmatic flutter" and it can cause DP/DR 24/7, which is what I've been struggling with the past 11 years.
It seems that this diagnosis is super rare, with only about 40 reported cases in the past several decades. And everyone with the problem eventually ended up on disability (all of this is according to the information I've found in medical journals online).
After all, with "diaphragmatic flutter" not only do you experience DP/DR 24/7, but also constant shortness of breath or choppy, uneven breathing to go along with the DP/DR. It makes "life" quite incapacitating.
Even though the problem appears to be pulmonary, those with acid reflux should be checked by a GI doctor. Acid can come up the throat and then go down into the lungs, where an infection can start.
"Diaphragmatic flutter" may result from forced breathing being superimposed over natural breathing. As a result, the whole natural body/breath rhythm is thrown off.
Can anyone relate to this "diaphragmatic flutter" or am I pretty much on my own with this one? Just wanted to post this in the event someone else experiences similar quivers in their belly and is not sure what is going on.
Best Wishes,
Jeff
