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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@lwilliams06 Sorry to hear about your condition. You are not alone my friend! It sounds similar to my situation, except for me, I didn't really feel tightness in my throat, it was just a terrible shortness of breath that no matter how much I expanded my lungs, it wouldn't "take" all the way and wouldn't satisfy the feeling. Then every now and then a deep breath would satisfy it. When it was at its worst, that's when I discovered the Buteyko Method. It worked me for the first time I used it. Then I stopped doing the exercises and symptoms came back about a year later. I applied the method, then it came back a couple of years after that when it was at it's absolute worst, so much so that I had multiple panic attacks from not being able to get a deep breath. I applied the technique once again, but much less effective and it took me a lot longer to get better. It is not 100%, but it is manageable as of now. I would recommend the Buteyko technique to you. I would use this organization because they teach the closest to what Dr. Buteyko originally taught; https://www.learnbuteykoonline.net/ It costs a bit of money (I think around $200 or something, I can't quite remember, but well worth it. It is a series of lessons that they teach you the technique, then you do the exercises daily until you get much better. Then after that, you maintain a good diet, consistent exercise, and doing the breathing techniques every now and then to keep your breathing in check. Check it out, sign up and follow the instructions carefully. They're really good about working with your situation and helping you perfect the technique. Let us know how it goes.
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There is a really good app to learn beutako breathing.. adv b and the first level is free
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@gabrielm, @ritasob1 @jenniferhunter, @lwilliams06, @katgts, @ashleyh- Good morning everyone. I hope that all of you had a good night sleep. I've become concerned about so many of you complaining about shortness of breath. I know how that feels, it's scary and even petrifying, which of course makes it worse. There is a plethora of organic reasons for shortness of breath. If you do not have any of these, to your knowledge, than we have to go outside of your body to find a cause.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/shortness-of-breath/basics/causes/sym-20050890
I am not a doctor and can't not make a diagnosis. But I can share with you my little story and the causes of my foray into this horrible place. I left for a University far away from my home, looking to break away from my over protective family. The morning of my flight I started to breathe very hard and I also started to gag. The gagging was learned behavior from my mom- a whole other story! I unfortunately became so home sick that I wound up going home, back into my source of comfort and anxiety. For many years after that I had to carry a paper bag with me so that I could stop this fast and mind conscious inhale, exhale cycle.
What I had, and it may be what you have is called hyperventilation. I will not go into the science of this as I have a YouTube video that will do that. But what I can tell you is that hyperventilation is most usually caused by stress. It doesn't matter why you have stress or whether you are conscious of it, it's still stress. We all have to figure out the cause/reason for it. It took me years to get rid of it, through therapy. But, that was years ago. Today there are breathing exercises that you can find on-line to help. So with out further to do here is the video.
Please let me know how the exercises work out.