Shortness of Breath

You breathe in, but it is not enough. No dramatic attack, no wheezing, no emergency — just the quiet feeling that the breath does not go deep enough. That there is an invisible limit preventing you from filling yourself completely with air. Stairs that used to be easy now take effort. Conversations become tiring. Sometimes you only notice it in the evening, when you wonder why you are so exhausted — even though you "haven't done anything."

Medically there are dozens of causes for shortness of breath: heart, lungs, blood count, fitness, weight. All of that needs to be investigated. But when the findings are unremarkable — or when the physical cause alone does not explain why the breath stays so shallow — a second look is worthwhile. Not at the lungs. At what is resting on them.