Extreme shortness of breath

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aivilo37

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I would get another appointment with this doctor and inform him that if you were having panic attacks than the medication he gave you should have help you by now and you are still experiencing symptoms. Request that he order a perfusion stess test, which he probably would have ordered in the first place if you had insurance. The other route you can take is when you have the next episode, than get yourself to the nearest emergency room. They can perform an ekg, blood work and hopefully admit you for a day to perform the stress test and a cardiac ultasound to rule out any cardiac blockages. Make sure that you request a perfusion stress test, this test gives more information than the standard stress test. The hospital can not refuse to treat you because you do not have insurance.
 
It's now Sept 2009 so I hope your trouble has been correctly identified and treated by now. I'm writing anyway because it's taken a very long time for correct diagnosis for me with severe symptoms first appearing in spring 2007 and first correct - but incomplete - diagnosis in May 2008. I had a rare type of polymorphic ventricular tachycardia requiring the implatation of an ICD with two leads. I still had severe sypmtoms after that recovery and finally sought new cardiologist and pulmonologists who did the correct testing to discover that my mitral valve regurgitation had progressed to severe and required a complex repair in May 2009. Unfortunately, I STILL have debilitating shortness of breath of an undetermined cause. Anhow, you got good advice about going in to the emergency room as you really need/needed a cardiac work-up. Hope this is all a thing of the past for you now.
 
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