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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@gabrielm just an update. As of now my need to take a deep breath and yawning is gone. One doctor told me that it may be a tick and to resist the urge to take a deep breath especially when my oxygen levels are good and I have no major organs that is causing it. I thought at first that is silly, but I was desperate and decided to do it and it was hard at first not to do it, but it worked! As for now I am back to normal and pray it never comes back. I write not to boast, but to tell you what helped me and hopefully help others. Please keep me updated
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@tonyagregg Thank you for the update! I'm glad that your SOB has gone away, hopefully for good.
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This is an interesting concept. Did you just resist the urge to take a deep breath even though you wanted to and feel the SOB and eventually it became normal again? @tonyagregg- did you have a stressful event prior to the supposed "tick" of starting? I read about something else posted earlier about sighing dyspnea which sounds like it could overlap with an OCD related type of behavior. In sighing dyspnea, a stressful event/time usually precedes the episodes in which the patient suddenly feels as though they cannot breathe. It is not a panic attack. A panic attack is acute and as we know our SOB is not an acute event it is more chronic (As is the condition I am describing, sighing dyspnea). I wonder if somehow my CO2 levels are all out of whack because I have been been struggling to take deep breaths for over a month now.
I went on a run yesterday and my breathing was fine even though it was 86 degrees and humid. However, this morning and last night (as I was up 3 times in night nursing a baby) my breathing is bad again. In stillness I notice I have to take deep breaths that can't be satisfied. The fact that I am able to go on a run might signify that there is no physical pathology going on? Anyone else okay during exercise but not good at night or other times? I do also feel a tightness in my chest which confuses the issue for me--reinforcing my anxiety that in fact there is some (terrible) underlying disease. For reference, I am a 41 year old woman (full time working mom of three young kids...so sleep deprived and with plenty of stress to go around).