Breathless

[anxietymadman123]

Now I don’t know whether to explain this as breathless or not or if it sounds serious, so bacially I have weird feelings in my throat, and lungs, I’ve had it for about 1 week, like sometimes I’m easy on breathing next my breathing is mad where I gotta take a few breaths before I catch it again, it’s weird Cus in work I go up a flight of stairs and I’m not to bad then other times I go up them again and I am out of breath, I feel it does get worse when thought about and I have no coughing, no chest pain anything like that just the breathless, I can be sat down or even walking and it will happen, I can sometimes get a sentence out and talk for ages, sometimes I can’t it’s scary, I’m just loooking for advice and reassurance

[Sasical]

Unfortunately the only reassurance I can give you is that I have exactly the same symptoms and I have been checked and I'm ok physically

[anxietymadman123 in reply to Sasical]

Do you get it random, and sometimes It’s that bad where you can’t breath for ages properly?

[anxietymadman123 in reply to anxietymadman123]

I’ve been looking on the internet and I don’t think it’s heart related Cus my hearts not that bad most of the time, plus I had a 24hr ecg about 4 months ago all good, and I’ve had no cough

[FearIsALiar in reply to anxietymadman123]

Don’t look on the internet. It’s only gonna make you feel worse. If you’re very worried about it go see a doctor. I’m sure you’re fine. I had mine since JULY..and I’m fine but it was scary. I focused on it so much that I made it worse.

[FearIsALiar]

This is normal! It’s happened to me since July but it has gone away like 2 days ago. Becaus I stopped thinking about it but I’m sure it’ll be back

[anxietymadman123 in reply to FearIsALiar]

❤️❤️

[Marc787 in reply to anxietymadman123]

I dealt with the same thing too. It can be scary. Its very common in anxiety with breathlessness. Anxiety will do this to you, especially if your more stressed, it tends to build up with time in your body, If not managed. Then slowly many physical symptoms starts to show up. I've taken all kinds of tests in the past from lungs, heart, blood work, xray, CT scan, mri scan, all negative, nothing wrong. Just have to manage stress, anxiety, life situations, how and where you put your focus on is important.

[langedechu]

this might just be a simple fitness issue. you may be out of shape. do you exercise on a regular basis?

[anxietymadman123 in reply to langedechu]

Yes I literally walk everywhere

[Agora1]

anxietymadman, I understand what you are saying because I have experienced

that feeling myself. It is all about "the breathing". When going up steps, when talking

with someone, when walking and even when just sitting and relaxing (although not as often)

we tend to hold our breath in anticipation of what we are doing. Sometimes without realizing that the "what if" situation is hovering above our head.

This is when we need to practice our diaphragmatic breathing techniques. Our body needs

oxygen to function without getting breathless. If we are hyperventilating or holding our breath, the outcome is breathlessness which then feeds into our anxious thoughts and a cycle is started.

The times you don't feel this effect is when you are not thinking twice about what you are doing. The body then responds positively. xx

[Miniwheats]

Sometimes I feel like my lungs are over inflated and that for some reason I'm not getting enough air. That's when I stop what I'm doing and notice that my breathing has gone out of whack - I'm inhaling more air before I've even exhaled the last intake. I don't know why I get into this altered breathing pattern sometimes, it's just a strange thing that happens periodically. I've found that the way to get immediate relief is to exhale as far as is humanly possible to deflate the lungs completely, then take a deep breath, hold for 2 counts, exhale slowly for 4 counts, hold for 2, then inhale for 4, hold for 2. I repeat this cycle for a minute or two and this seems to reset my breathing pattern back to normal. I believe it's called "rhythmic breathing" and it's used frequently in meditation. Give it a try next it happens you've got nothing to lose..