Stairs and uphill

[bryan45735]

Hi anyone that goes on short walks going uphill how does your breathlessness feel is it like breathing through the top of your chest that's what it feels for me and because that's what I do Intend to breath like that at rest just want to know of that's how it felt for you? Xx

[Damon1864 Volunteer]

It does most of the time feel the same for me. Have a lovely weekend and take care 😊 Bernadette and Jack 🐕 xxxxxx 🌻🌻

[Patk1]

No,I concentrate on my breathing to get upstairs and walking.re read up on " controlled breathing".

[CDPO16]

When I could walk uphill I chest breathed too. Most people do this automatically when breathless. Once that eased I could then go back to diaphragm breathing.

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My understanding is that chest breathing indicates someone is using their accessory muscles to breathe rather than their diaphragm, which even when it’s caused by an underlying respiratory diagnosis is considered a form of dysfunctional breathing.

[peege]

Hi, I just get and feel breathlessness. I'll do pursed lip breathing to see how far I can get until I have to fish out the ventolin or turn around to go back downhill. Luckily only feel this on inclines & the hills around me. P

[JJ_7]

Hi Bryan. I have severe COPD and try very hard to walk up small inclines in my local park. I feel that I am breathing through the top of my chest and can only do diaphramatic breathing when I have recovered from the ordeal. I do keep trying and it hurts me so to recollect my sports fitness of my teens and twenties. However, if you are walking uphill and breathing you are winning

[B0xermad]

Yes quite tight but I stop giving myself a chance to settle then carry on

[Tykelady]

I stop and get control of my breathing when going uphill and where I live everywhere is uphill. I no longer worry about people asking if I'm ok as I have accepted that they are concerned. I have an oxygen tank and a mobility walker but still need to be aware that I am the one doing the breathing.

[anng18]

Hi Bryan,I tend to stop and do purse lip breathing, but I like to get as far as I can, albeit very slowly.

Stairs are not bad during the day, but for some reason become a mountain at night. I stop at the top to regain my breathe. I have a low lung function of about 26-28%, but, as yet, no obvious sign of a heart problem (swollen ankles), but I am only 59.

[Bingo88]

Yes hills and stairs leave me breathless now. Hills especially. That's why I am doing the Pulmonary rehabilitation course which is helping me so much. Brian

[Alberta56]

I walk up hills until I'm puffing so badly I have to stop. Sometimes wonder if there might be a better way of doing it.

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Having been breathless since childhood, I’m a dysfunctional mouth breather, so completely empathise with you.

What’s changed things for me is the online Breathing Freely programme. It’s really hard to change the way you breathe, but using this programme I’ve had some success. It was developed for asthmatics but is suitable for anyone with dysfunctional breathing. Do try it, Bryan.

breathetrain.co.uk

[Ergendl]

When I walk uphill I deliberately concentrate on using my diaphragm and abdomen to breathe deeply, and count my breaths to steps - first, 10 steps as I breathe in, 10 steps as I breathe out; then 5 and 5, then 3 and 3. Sometimes the count isn't even, as in 3 breaths in to 2 breaths out. Before I had lung problems, I climbed some pretty steep fells that way.