Breathing difficulty/Hyperventilation

[Mindfulness4]

Ive suffered with panic and anxiety disorder in the past but what is new this time around that it came back is breathing difficulties that are terrifying and want to see if anyone feels the same.

For me suddenly just going about my day I start to feel tightness in my chest and throat that comes with this "manual" breathing =. I get focus on it because it doesn't feel flowy. Then a random hyperventilation (without panicking) and this like tightness/squeezing/tembling of my body muscles happens.

My breathing gets so difficult that Im not able to really talk. I literally have to stop talking it feels like I'm suffocating and then it always goes away.

It is not asthma even though I swore it was. I got tested for it. I went to the er for this before and they just checked my heart - the doc saw I was in there for anxiety before I didn't test me for other stuff.

IT just scarressss the shit out of me that I get to the point where I have difficulty talking until it passes. It feels paralyzing and I feel I have no control or power over myself. Anyone else?

[Erinkatja]

I get the same feeling. It’s like you know that you’re not paralyzed but you literally feel like you’re stuck in your spot and you can’t put together a sentence. I also feel like you have to consciously make yourself breathe. I get this way and my boyfriend tries to get me to talk and I’m like I literally can’t. It’s terrifying

[Mindfulness4 in reply to Erinkatja]

Omg yes. I wanted to know someone else felt the same. It is terrifying doll but luckily yesterday I just let it do whatever not trying to control it at all and it was short lived