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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?

Lung Health | Last Active: Oct 23 10:20am | Replies (3405)
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@kjconrad

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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Gabe, Volunteer Mentor | @gabrielm | May 29, 2019

@kjconrad I know the question was directed to Tonya, but wanted to chime in; when I did the exact same thing when I first came down with the SOB, it took a couple of days of fighting the urge to take a deep breath for it to go away completely and for my breathing to "reset." I only breathed through my nose and when I couldn't resist any longer, I took a deep breath only through my nose and breathed shallowly throughout the day. I also did many breath holds throughout the day to build up CO2, which also helped.

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