Dx with UCTD. No congestion but 3 days ago sinus inflammation started. Now I am getting progressively more winded. Could UCTD cause this inflammation ?
Who knows?? It is the height of allergy and cold season- flu season to start soon
I don’t feel like I have a cold and my multiple allergy tests have come up negative. My problem is that for the past 20 years, any time I had a virus or any sinus inflammation, it would immediately go to my lungs
Hi, Roxy, I have always had the same problems with my sinuses. When I first became ill, I suffered from high temperature sinus infections that always ended up in my lungs. My allergist tested me for Wegener’s granulamatosis… I turned out not to have it, although maybe it’s something you cold ask your Rheumy about.
Be persistent in getting help. Only you know how far things can go before they get to bad and you never want to end up hospitalized for something everyone said was nothing.
Almost always when I have a flare, my sinuses are involved. I will not have drainage or even congestion but the pressure and pain from inflamation are there. I also get short of breath and have at time had laryngitis. I have never really had clear answers about what causes it but steroids are the only thing that relive it.
My pulmonologist suspects vocal chord dysfunction. He referred me me to a specialist for a dx. Here is a description of vocal chord dysfunction.
I switched pulmonologists in August. Getting winded again so I called and he squeezed me in this morning. Was winded and he heard wheezing despite a normal breathing test and desaturization test. He suspects vocal chord dysfunction. I was referred to a specialist at Mt Sinai to confirm or rule out the diagnosis. Here is a description of vocal chord dysfunction
Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD) is a syndrome that causes asthma-like symptoms as a result of abnormal closure of the vocal cords. Symptoms may include “wheezing,” shortness of breath, and chest or neck tightness. VCD can closely mimic asthma, so much so that this syndrome has also been called vocal cord asthma. Asthma medications have no effect on VCD, so people with this condition may have been to the emergency room many times and given asthma medications, including oral corticosteroids, without relief of their symptoms.