Dyspnea - I'm Short of Breath, Right?

One of the trickiest parts of dyspnea, I think, is figuring out whether there's a disease at all. One way to get at that before the COVID pandemic was to ask them where they traveled because often when people travel, they want to have to walk around. And so comparing that baseline with how they are now is really important. If you're used to running five miles a day and you're going to walk two of one flight of stairs and you're short of breath, that's probably abnormal for you. But in my 80 year old patients who don't do much walking up a flight of stairs  is probably about this probably baseline.