I'm just worried it's not a permanent fix. Every day, I get this feeling in my chest, that used to mean I was about to have a very hard time breathing - one of the vaccine symptoms - and I can get rid of it by working out. So I work out for an hour every day, and it feels like I'm pushing something horrible out of my chest. But if I don't work out... Very bad day.

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How long ago have you been vaccinated? What are the symptoms besides shortness of breath? It's funny that for me it's the opposite - any effort worsens the situation, that is, I will have a very bad day 12-24 hours after the workout and it will take at least a week to recover.

It was similar for me a year ago. I pushed through and took hour long walks for about a year, and was totally beat after each walk, but I think it helped a lot. I made a point of walking in full sunlight and getting tanned and sweating some. My rationale was, walking trains several systems simultaneously and vitamin D would be necessary - I was already a health nut before covid, so I knew about vit D, but it helped that the whole internet was saying get D. My other symptoms were chest pains, a shooting ice feeling down my left arm, blood pressure up to 170/120 every day all day, veins bulging out and looking gross, and tinnitus so bad it sounds like a jet engine - the tinnitus is still with me, but it's reduced during and after exercise. The first time I got the breath shortness, I panicked and fell and damaged my wall. It was the short breath that got me walking initially because that was the only way to get it under control. Nattokinase helped a lot, but I never trusted it, so I only take half a pill every other day. Doctor didn't help - he told me it was anxiety and sent me home, but he did say the vitamin D was a good idea.