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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

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@rub3n

Hey guys I have a question for anyone with more experience or knowledge in this field. I’ve been thinking about my sleep apnea diagnosis and how I’ve had 200 episodes of hyperventilation recorded in my results and the centralised apnea. For the last few days my breathing felt good, relaxed. I could breathe normally while relaxing. But today it’s just been, like trying to breathe near space. I was wondering, if maybe my brain just randomly kicks my lungs into hyperventilation mode? That maybe it’s a brain function issue. If it does it while I sleep I don’t see why it won’t do it while i’m Awake, and I sure as hell feel it. I’m not very knowledgeable but it makes some sense to me. Also with the centralised sleep apnea it’s said to be caused by brain function issues or by strokes and so on but I’ve never experienced such things.

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Merry, Alumni Mentor | @merpreb | Mar 19, 2019

Good morning @rub3n- Welcome to Connect. I sympathize with you. I do not have sleep apnea however I have COPD and emphysema and am very familiar with SOB. I'm glad that you are going into trial. We are not doctors so we can't diagnose or prescribe treatments. We can only make suggestions based on our experiences and what we have learned. ll of our functions re brain related but that doesn't mean that we have something wrong with our brains. With any new medicine it takes time to build up in your system. also it could just simple thing like not using the inhaler correctly. after several years of using mine (I use three) I found out that I wasn't mine correctly.

Here's some help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCAsW7OM9Ns&t=13s Let me know

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tonyagregg | @tonyagregg | Mar 20, 2019

@rub3n I totally agree with you about your sleep apnea. If it is central meaning from the brain I believe your brain can cause your breathing to be out of sync. Just like someone that has had a stroke their respiration change. If your sleep apnea causes you to stop breathing at night. Why wouldn't it effect it in other ways as well?

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