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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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@nycmom yes I just resisted the urge to take a deep breath and it eventually went away. Although it was not easy I kept reminding myself I was getting the oxygen I needed. Not sure if you have read my story, but this feeling of my need to take a deep breath started back in November when I got a treadmill and started running. I was 43 at the time. As far as running I felt good doing so it would be later on that evening that i would feel the need to take a deep breath. I did not feel stressed out or worried about anything, so i dont know why it started. After many test to make sure it was no major organ causing this, I kept talking it over with a doctor friend of mine and he was the one thst mention a tick. I am a mother of 3 and maybe subconsciously I was stressed, but didnt realize it. To be honest before I decided to resist the urge I would sometimes get worked up trying to get that deep satisfying breath and it would make it worse. I am still running and every now and then I feel the urge to sigh or breath deep and I resist it and dont even worry about it anymore. I hope this helps.
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Hope I'm not bothering you with too many questions...I really appreciated your feedback. Do you recall how long your episodes of SOB lasted? Like was it a few months? or more like days? I'm going on over a month. Did. you find that your anxiety heightened significantly while you felt like you had to take a deep breath? I went on a run this morning and then did strength training. Only after that am I having a pretty bad day in terms of SOB. I am just so confused as to whether it is an underlying disease or truly a tick or some kind of psychosomatic event. Also, when my episodes get bad I notice a mild/moderate pain above my heart when I breathe in. I was checked out by a cardiologist and he said all was fine. I wonder if the constant deep breathing is exacerbating my lungs and causing irritation.
This may sound strange but with resisting to take a deep breath, did you just breath shallow instead? How long would the feeling of needing a deep breath last before it went away?
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Thanks so much for your response . Sounds like we share some similarities. (Mom of 3 and runners). It’s interesting because when something out of the ordinary happens during the day —like friends stopped by yesterday— I am not thinking about breathing at all. But after they leave it will come back. And now when I wake up in night the first thing I think about is whether I can breathe and the cycle begins again. Are you still dealing with it sometimes ? Or has it totally gone away? Thanks so much for sharing !