I have had asthma all my life, the air hunger issue, as I recall, seems to start back in 2012-2013. There were a lot of stress issues happening right then, and I’ve not gotten over it since. I remember catching myself during the day at work, raising my shoulders and yawning to get the deep breath, and people looked at me funny, so I tried to hid it. As I said before, I have had multiple allergy tests over the years, tried different asthma meds, but when I started feeling really tired and run down, and the asthma meds were NOT working like they were supposed to, I would go to the dr and get prednisone & an antibiotic. Which helped, until I got it again a few months later. I was starting to think the prednisone was helping but that I may be taking too many antibiotics, because my sinuses were clear, but my nose was soooo swollen inside and raw to the point of painful (completely blocked when laying down), that’s the prednisone did help that. This was a regular thing 2-3 times/year, Which is why my dr wanted to explore the
GERD thing. Omeprezol seemed to help enough that I went off the Advair for about 6 mos?? . This month, I went back on Advair, because it seemed to help with the breathing while laying down. Yes, the left side is easier to breath than the right! So right now, I still don’t have a resolution as to why I yawn to get a deep breath, and as someone else said, some days are better than others. I can’t pinpoint what it causes it. I do eat a lot of eggs, but don’t show allergy to them in tests. Man I hate to do it, I love eggs, but I may go off them for a month a see if there’s a difference. You get to the point where you just have to try to find a solution for yourself - there’s certainly not a lot of info out there about this.