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Mysterious shortness of breath: What has helped you?
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Marcus I could’ve saved you the time and the money. You don’t accept it’s anxiety cause it feels so real. It is real, your brain is feeling like it’s suffocating like it can’t breathe properly etc. but the CAUSE is not real. The cause is adrenaline/cortisol in your body built up and pumped out everyday in the form of this symptom. The more you resist/care/try to rid your brain thinks huh this is a threat let’s make more fight/flight hormones and that’s how theres a loop that’s how you feel it 24/7 365 days. The only way it burns itself out is if you treat it unimportantly and live fully with it, your brain DOESN’T think it’s a threat so it doesn’t make more fight/flight hormones. Marcus you sound just like me. I gave buteyko 6 months of my time paid for lessons did calls. It doesn’t fix this it makes it worse. Like please everyone here who backs buteyko ask yourself this, as human beings hundreds of years ago who also experienced similar symptoms. Do you think they did buteyko to fix it? Do you think they reduced their sugars whatever whatever. No they did nothing. They accepted it sucked and lived on. That’s how you recover. This is a paradox people the more you try the worse you’ll get. You need to be brave let it hit you. Wish it worse and you’ll see it’s all false. You have to take responsibility that you’ve gone however much time with this not living fully wasting time and money. That’s why so many hold onto buteyko as their tool. They want to feel like they know the solution yet it’s a solution that wastes hour a day and they still have symptoms. If anyone doesn’t believe me please spare the little money buy this book “At Last a Life: Anxiety and Panic Free” and read it it’s not long. And you will have the biggest “ah” moment where you finally realise your struggle was due to your choice to struggle your actions to try rid. It’s the problem not the suffocation feelings. Marcus same offer for you if you want my help I can message you on Instagram to answer questions.
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Once again @yessir321, I will re-iterate what I said to you some weeks ago, for the benefit of those reading through the comments. You are certain everyone is suffering from the exact cause, while dismissing everything else as potential tools for people to be able to help themselves.
I never, nor would I ever, tell someone or push for what might be the cause of air hunger or any other symptoms people are dealing with. Breathing is such a complex function, and many possible issues that cause breathing symptoms. When someone reaches out for help, I want to provide any suggestions that I can.
By the way, the Buteyko method is just one breathing method out of many. The premise is similar to many other breathing exercises including those dealing with anxiety; that is- it aims to slow the breathing and return breathing function to a normal rate and re-establish better breathing habits, in turn possibly helping anxiety.
Anxiety is also one of many things that can cause a variety of symptoms. Not every symptom stems from anxiety, nor does anxiety cause all symptoms. Some people's health issues cause anxiety while others begin with anxiety that causes health issues. There are many ways to deal with anxiety, not every way is fit for everyone. And not everyone has anxiety as the cause of symptoms. Therefore, we as "lay people" in this forum can guide people to do research, talk to various professionals, and offer suggestions of what people can use as tools in their toolbox. Health and well-being is a life-long journey with ups and downs. While many find the smoking gun, it's not that easy for others, which is apparent in reading this forum.
Everyone here is free to share what has helped them, whether that be certain supplements, breathing exercises, getting certain tests done, diet/nutrition, exercise, etc. People can then take this information and do what they want with it fit for their situation.
Food for thought my friend. If I can offer a suggestion, help people to consider researching anxiety or getting checked for it. We don't know the ins and outs of everyone's medical life so it's prudent not to offer a certain cause and cure while dismissing the suggestion of others.