I am seeing a new pulmonologist in March.

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4. Yes! The heart!

I'm turning into a bit of an evangelist on this. My husband had shortness of breath. I thought, "Oh, this seems like pneumonia." We went to the ER when he had difficulty swimming to side of pool one day (former triathlete). He's not overweight, no high BP or cholesterol, exercises regularly, does all the right things and doesn't look the type. (Unlike more "voluptuous" people--where they take one look at you and say, "Lose weight" if you have a hangnail, but I digress.) And they did an EKG and we're talking afib that had probably been there for over a year and worn his heart out. No one ever thought to do an EKG and I can remember several situations where this could have been caught if someone had thought holistically instead of within their specialty. Just an EKG shows a lot, then when they go in a do the deeper imaging the connection between the heart and lungs is pronounced. Not to mention heart and brain, and emotions and heart. It's all connected, and that is so obvious to me, but I can't believe how many doctors are now telling me that like, "Whoda thunk it?"

IN ANY CASE, good luck on finding a doctor who believes you, who hears you. It is gold.