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Feeling like i'm not getting enough oxygen. diagnosed with gerd after normal ecg echo and stress test with cxray. anxiety? what can it be? 9weeks now

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Dr. John Feola answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

R/O RAD V ASTHMA: . R/O RAD(Asthma)vs . COPD is unusual in an non smoker under 50. Make sure they evaluate you for alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency /pulmonary hypertension/pulmonary fibrosis/sarcoidosis . You need a full exam labs CT of chest . PFTS with DLCO AND POTENTIALLY lung bronchoscopy with biopsy. Also moniter your PEF #. GERD can often flare asthma

Answered 3/15/2015

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