Can your stomach make you breathless?

[gandac]

I have been too breathless ever since pneumonia in Jan 2017. Had the usual tests and all that has come out is it’s probably not aspergillosis and a 2nd CT scan to see if maybe an area of infammation has healed.

I also have acid reflux (on rabeprazole) and when that kicks in it gives me a tight chest so I take gaviscon and the tight chest goes away.

Yesterday, I had a rushing about day, catching trains, up and down (gentle) hills at my daughter’s speed. I was rather out of breath but not breathless and my breathing settled down quickly enough. The only time I felt breathless was on the train after a carefully eaten and yummy homemade bacon and egg sandwich.

My question is can your stomach make you breathless in some way and if so what should I do about it?

[Minushabens]

I'm going to put my cards on the table here, & wish to emphasise this is just me...but I have, shall we say, the odd pound or two more than I like around the stomach area. Or, more accurately, the odd pound or fourteen.

I suspect it is comprised of about one-third beer, one-third Just-Eat & one-third prednisolone.

Anyway, I notice for sure that, even after eating a normal meal that my stomach can become bloated & press up towards my diaphragm, which in turn definitely causes me a shortage of breath. So, I guess it's possible even eating a fairly small sandwich. The other possibility could be a minor allergy maybe?

[johnsmith]

The answer to your question is yes and no. The body is an engineering system. The body's engineering system consists of many engineering sub systems which interact in unknown ways with each other.

Some interactions raise a systems stress level. In many cases this does not matter. In some cases where a system is working near ti its stress breakdown point the slight raising of a stress level will put its stress over the stress breakdown point. When this happens the system starts to break down.

So the answer to your question is yes it can if certain conditions are met.

The second question is what can you do about it? The answer to this is see a McTimony Chiropractor to loosen any tight rib muscles that you may have. The second action is to see an Alexander Teacher to improve how you use your muscles. These are suggestions for investigation. Until you investigate it cannot be known if I have suggested is correct or not.

[Hidden]

There are a few ways (that I know of) where a full stomach could cause SOB.

If your asthma is very mild and you have a very full stomach your body uses more oxygen to digest and the full stomach will imping on the lungs slightly all of those together might be enough to make your SOB noticeable.

If you have a sensitivity or allergy to some foods you will get bloating but also pressure in your intestines, this pressure will push molecules into the blood stream from the intestines before they are properly broken down, this can cause body wide inflammation and potentially problems with Asthma.

Reflux, often reflux can be silent (LPR) this is a very well know diver of SOB and is often caused by inflammation in the upper airways.

Im sure there must be other mechanisms.

[ChrissieMons]

Yes, it can make you breathless. I find eating a proper meal tiring. I'm sure all the technical info above is absolutely right, but if I'm not 100% little and often works well.