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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
Lung Health | Last Active: May 27 5:58pm | Replies (3353)Comment receiving replies
I have had this frustrating syndrome since childhood. It’s very debilitating at times - no doctor understands and neither do I. I live an extremely healthy lifestyle but this sob causes my body enormous stress. I believe this is the root cause of my chronic fatigue. I am going to look up the breathing exercise you mentioned. It really is very strange to have the shortness of breath come and go over the years I’ve always tried to figure out what triggers it I can feel myself obviously breathing in an out but I don’t know where the air goes when I breathe in it does not satisfy my need to breathe so I yawn and sometimes I need to yawn multiple times and I exhale forcefully and that makes me feel as though I got a breath and then it could happen a minute or two later and this can go on for months at a time weeks or days it just depends I think maybe that it was hormonal neurological or some type of anxiety that I’m just not aware of now I’m told I have an enlarged heart and they don’t know why because I’m very healthy but I thought to myself it’s probably from all of the straining to breathe my whole life I’m 55 right now so it’s been a long time dealing with this.
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This is exactly what is happening with me
I can feel myself obviously breathing in an out but I don’t know where the air goes when I breathe in it does not satisfy my need to breathe so I yawn and sometimes I need to yawn multiple times and I exhale forcefully and that makes me feel as though I got a breath and then it could happen a minute or two later
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@lovemyvets, wow I'm sorry you've been dealing with this for so long. Sounds like you've been managing it somewhat but is still frustrating and debilitating. When it first started for me, part of the breathing method was to only breathe through the nose at all times, and incorporating that into physical exercise and throughout the day. I resisted the urge to take a deep breath even when it felt like I needed it, and would only take the deep breath when I couldn't take it anymore. Doing this over the course of 2-3 really helped my breathing quite a bit. Something you might want to experiment with, though I'm sure you'll find various techniques from the Buteyko Breathing method. The forceful exhale is what the Buteyko method has you stop; instead, when you do take a satisfying breath, you'd exhale slowly through the nose and slow the breath. This is what I learned, and definitely helped me out. Worth a try- let me know how it goes!
That's interesting that it comes and goes like that. During the 'normal' times, would you say you can breathe completely normally? Do you do physical exercising?