Short Of Breath Weird Pain In Back?

[Krystens mummy]

Hi all yes, another question. if I can pick your brains.

When I was on the gluten I used to get short of breath just talking and walking at the same time.

Not enough to make me worried about my breathing too much but feels like Ive walked up two flights of stairs.

I also get this weird feeling in my back between my shoulder blades like I need to click it or cough up a ball or something

I notice this more when I accidently gluten myself now i'm gluten free is this asthma or a common symptom of gluten intolerance? does anyone else get this????

It lasts a couple of days then goes away.

last time I got it I took a couple of puffs of ventolin and for about three hours I wasn't as bad and didn't notice that ball in my back so much.

but maybe this is because it opens the airways and I was getting more I dont know. Any help will be much appreciated.

[Presto]

I get very short of breath too when I've been glutened. No one seems to have much of an answer. I suspect it is just bad particles wandering around the body causing inflammation.

I also have RAD, reactive airway disease. Generally only reactive to cold air, exercise, powerful smells...

But boy is it hard to catch my breath when I have gluten! I hit the inhaler all the time, but it only seems to help a tiny tiny bit. I wind up taking benadryl, and I think it is more that I relax on it than the antihistamine effect, but I'm sure whichever way it is working, I am grateful!

Part of it I think is bloating simply pushing up on the diaphragm. Less room for air. I have twinges in my back then too, it could all be related to core muscles responding to additional pressure from inside.

You have my sympathies!

I'm new here, so a lot of this is my own opinion, and guesses about what is happening to me, but your experience sounded familiar so I thought I'd chime in.

[celiac-mommy]

There are very benign reasons this can happen, but there can also be some worrisome reasons. If/when it happens again, if you can, you might want to call your Dr and get checked out-chest xray etc... I suppose if your body has a reaction to gluten by inflamming, one idea that comes to mind is that your pericardium can become inflamed too causing pericarditis. The symptoms you state match up. In mild cases, it can clear on it's own, especially if you're taking some anti-inflammitory meds (ibuprophin) BUT I just had a patient yesterday who had been ignoring her symptoms for 2 months and had a MASSIVE pericardial effusion (fluid around the heart from the inflammation) and I had to have her admitted for a pericardiocentesis (big needle inserted under the ribs to draw out the fluid)-I've seen them pull out about 2 liters before If she had waited much longer, it would have caused her heart to completely collapse under the pressure and she would have most likely died (the right side of her heart WAS collapsing). Not to be an alarmist, but I'd rather be safe than sorry...

[MyMississippi]

I would have my heart and lungs checked----