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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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Yes! I do have a similar experience with the yawning. I will try to take a deep breath and if it doesn't feel like enough, then I keep trying to yawn until it does. Sometimes I feel I cant even yawn! That is when I spiral.
Looks like were kinda in the same boat then, I'm willing to try something for my anxiety because of this recent panic attack. That sure was not fun, and I want to avoid that happening again!
I am going to look I to dysfunctional breathing, I just did for a moment and it's very intriguing. I've also read up alot on sighing dyspnea.
I really need to try some of these breathing exercises. I'm a little scared but I should try.
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I also wanted to add that you may want to check out Sal51’s comments about dysfunctional breathing/hyperventilation (April 2021) in case you have not done so. Sal51 identifies themselves as a medical doctor and I have found their comments about SOB very helpful. Ultimately, based on their comments, I still have the reason to hope that I could overcome this issue by addressing my underlying mental health issues (e.g. anxiety).
On the other hand, I have just read some older comments on this forum by another medical doctor Felicityr (June 2, 2020). Felicityr talks about the idea that this condition may be related to some kind of pulmonary (lung) blood vessel stretch receptor issue which the medical science has little knowledge of and current tests do not show. Basically, the way I understood it, Felicityr attributes this condition more to organic factors (like a faulty alarm system) rather than psychogenic factors. I have to say that I have found this explanation quite discouraging because if this theory is correct, I do not see how the treatment of my anxiety could resolve my SOB.
Once again, I appreciate and respect everyone’s comments here, I just want to find a reason to believe that sooner or later this issue will go away.
Thank you