I’ve been dealing with this for the past 2 years straight. Every time I google symptoms, it points to anxiety which I didn’t want to believe as I’m. It an anxious person. Pulmonary workup says I’m fine. I do have reflux so waiting in an egd to check into a hiatal hernia or h pylori. However, after looking more into “sigh dyspnea”, I’m honestly starting to believe this is more of a tic than a serious problem. In hindsight, I had random tics as far as I can remember, as a kid, sometimes it was a cough, other times compulsive blinking, as an adult, a lot of muscle twitching to get a stretch in. They would last a while and then go away and would not be present if I were asleep or distracted. Maybe anxiety could have brought it on as this started for me at the beginning of Covid and knowing I’d be having to take care of patients without proper PPE. Had the pleasure of reusing contaminated masks and storing them in brown paper bags when we had none nor did we have much understanding of the disease, so sure I guess that was traumatic. After digging deeper, it seems there are more instances if this and other tics as a result of the mental health fallout post Covid. I am now trying to force nose breathing (I think I did tons of mouth breathing in masks which also contributed to this) and reassure myself that I don’t always need to take deep breath or yawn. This is suppressing the urges and making it better. Knowing nothing seriously is wrong helps too. I can deal with an annoying tic that should hopefully pass on its own.