New member with question

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Hi, this seems like a great board. I like all the focus on

experimental treatments. I am having some health issues and I

thought this would be a good place to come and get advice and

insight.

I am a thirty something mom, married with kids. When I was in my

early twenties I was working alot and going to school, and I was

having panic attacks, and not eating very healthy. I was also

working at a vet that used chemicals. I got sick and then stayed

sick and the doctors thought it was mono. After a while I researched

and realized it was chronic fatigue syndrome. I tried to work but

was tired and sick alot, good days and days I just couldn't work, so

work was hard. Any real exercise could put me in bed for days. I

dealt with it for three years, allergy skin tests showed multiple

allergies and I got shots, I also did acupuncture and homeopathy but

nothing worked to well. A few years later it just went away.

A decade later, I start getting shortness of breath going up stairs

and exercising. A year after that we move into a nice new house in

the country and shortness of breath gets worse, but comes and goes.

Also, when I get sick it lasts a month each of last two years, one

time shortness of breath was so bad I needed breathing treatment.

This year I got sick in February with flu that turned to bronchitis.

Was treated with oral steroids for breathing and ashtma meds and

antibiotics. A month later I was still sick, hacking, coughing with

gagging, throwing up. A month after that I started to have days

where I would feel better but then I got sick again. Long story, but

now it is over four months I am still very short of breath most of

the day, can't drive, and seem to be stuck. It is very

uncomfortable. I am sick off and on, which makes it worse. Any bug

puts me down much longer than everyone else. I am suddenly sensitive

to chemicals like I was with CFS. I have practically no appetite. I

had asthma as a child but they did a methacholine test and a

pulmonary test and allergy tests came back fine. X-rays are fine.

They checked my heart a couple of years ago and it was fine then.

I would think it was CFS if not for the breathing aspect, which is

the worst part of it. Has anyone heard of this or have any ideas

what might be going on? I am concerned about autoimmune things.

Thanks so much

Kai