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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
Lung Health | Last Active: Oct 23 10:20am | Replies (3405)Comment receiving replies
@ecassidymitchell- It's difficult to believe what some of us have to go through to not even get a helpful diagnosis.
Actually one of the best ways to get more air into your lungs is through pursed lip breathing. It does entail "belly" breathing because in order to fill your lungs up as much as possible you have to relax your diaphragm and get air deep deep into your lower lobes.
Here is a great video about this. It is hard to learn it but it works. Be patient with it and try it in all different exercise you do.
Humidity is a big culprit for me when it comes to daily activities and exercise. Anything over 55% humidity and I begin to feel the heaviness in my lungs. My muscles begin to ache because I am getting enough air, and of course I am short of breath. Have you given this any thought for when you use the sauna or steam room? Why do you do ice baths? Ouch!!!
Also I found that it's better to eat 4-5 times a day and eat smaller meals. Your stomach won't fill up as much so pressure on your lungs will be much less, if at all.
Are you seeing a pulmonologist at all?
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And the sauna and steam room apparently are great for it.... I try to belly breathe in the steam room but not toooo deep of breathes and in the sauna I stretch my muscles and relax
would u please send me the video on breathing w/belly. thank you so much wayne
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pritikin suggest that we eat six times a day I only eat when I’m hungry though . i’m hungry for a snack I’ll eat a snack but it’s very rare . Pranayama and meditation (belly breathing , nasal breathing etc) is what we did today in yoga... it did wonders for my breathing. I really feel we all may have bad allergies and also DO not know how to breathe properly. I way to tell that u haven’t been getting enough oxygen when you do take this class is getting dizzy when doing the breathing exercises bc your body isn’t used to taking in so much oxygen , it’s only used to the inadequate oxygen we have been feeding it . I think relearning how to breathe is the best thing and doing yoga/meditation everyday until you have relearned how to breathe. Humidity does suck and I think seasonal changes affect us as well. I work or a lot bc I’m training for something and ice baths help with muscle soreness ... stretching and ice and hot switching back and forth help.
Today doing yoga didn’t fix my breathing completely but I will say during it I was able to breathe as well as afterwards for a short time and throughout my day today I am more calm and catch myself gasping for air at some points and holding my breathe and I feel more in control today than I have before..... do any of you ever catch yourself holding your breathe or CHEST breathing .