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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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Hi Gabrielle,.
How are you doing these days ? Are you still having breathing issues ? I just came across your post and I have exactly what you are describing. I feel like I have to constantly yawn to take a deep breath. It has been affecting my daily life and sleep now for weeks. I recently retired and I plan to sell my house so I don't know if this is stress related or not. In 2019 I was told that I had asthma and needed to use an inhaler. However, this past spring, the inhaler was no longer working so I missed using it one day in April and then my breathing was normal again. My lung function has always been fine, but the doctor told me my breathing test was not good the first time I visited them in 2019. However, after I started using the inhalers the breathing tests were good. There's no explanation for why I started breathing normal in April of this year when I stopped using the inhaler. This is so debilitating to have to think about breathing all the time. I hope that you are still a member of this site and will write me back. Thank you.
Tina
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Hi Tina. It's still there but not nearly like it was when it first started for me years ago. It was bad at first, then went away, came back worse, went away again, came back and has been stable for a few years. So while I do deal with it, the symptoms are manageable and I can live normally and do pretty much everything except intense exercise.
As far as your asthma, is this something you've had for a while? You mentioned getting tested in 2019, but did you have any symptoms prior to that? Asthma can come and go for a lot of people. Some have sports induced asthma while for others it's triggered by allergens and the environment. Yours may be triggered by certain things, so it's possible that the symptoms come and go even without the inhaler.