Big breath in

[BusaMags]

Hi all. Hope everyone's keeping well. I keep breathing in like when you have been sobbing. This is an involuntary action but keeps happening throughout the day. Does anyone else get this. When it happens the feeling in getting more uncomfortable. I'm due to have my Angiogram on Tuesday. Forgot to ask consultant yesterday due to the shock of how quickly they want to do the angiogram. X

[Ymail65]

Hi me too

Thank you so much

For this post

I have found it hard to explain this feeling

I was told my

Lung had partially collapsed

Due to the keyhole surgery

[BusaMags in reply to Ymail65]

Thank you for your reply. Think I will bring it up with my consultant. X

[Mike424u]

Hi

Not sure if this will help or not, I get the same symptom which I never had before having a heart attack. After my heart attack, I had 5 stents fitted and 2 more planned to be fitted.

Plus giving up smoking 30 day for the last 35years, I just put it down to the medication and my lungs recovering from not smoking anymore. Either that or all the medication I'm now on.

[BusaMags in reply to Mike424u]

Thank you for your reply. But going to speak to my consultant on Tuesday

[Lynn1966]

Hi , yes I do this. My partner described it as a massive sigh. At the beginning I did this loads . I still do it but not as much.x

[BusaMags in reply to Lynn1966]

That's just what it is. Have you ever asked what courses it?

[Kirsty131]

I get this quite a bit, my cardiologist told me it’s to do with my heart arrhythmia, when your heart skips a beat for whatever reason the brain tells the lungs to take in air due to reduced oxygenated red blood cells. It’s your bodies self protect mode kicking in (pretty cool really)

[BusaMags in reply to Kirsty131]

That is cool but the bodies engine is fascinating. My consultant thinks I have Angina but after Tuesday angiogram I will know exactly what I have got wrong. Thanks for your reply. Take care x

[Hidden]

Hi I have dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure and it happens to me all the time, just watching telly or in the middle of the night, it wakes me up, I sound like I am sighing and bored with company, its so annoying, I spoke to my nurse and she said that it was because of the build up of fluid it was the bodies way of coping with it, I thought I was the only person that had this, I hope the angiogram goes ok, take care char xx

[BusaMags]

Hi thanks for your reply. I have been told that a few people experience this all been told different reasons why but at least I no I'm not the only one. It's a bite annoying at time like having hiccup that won't stop lol. Take care x

[Ymail65]

This is so

Assureing to know that other people are going through this

And I’m not alone thanks everyone

[BusaMags in reply to Ymail65]

Looks like there is quite a few of us. At least we know now that we are not alone. Take care

[wiltsgirl]

I was like this after my surgery, it was as if I couldn't do the involuntary actions like that and sighing and sneezing. I would ask your GP or rehab nurse xxx

[BusaMags in reply to wiltsgirl]

I haven't had anything done yet. Going for my angiogram on Tuesday will ask then. Take care x

[IanGordon]

Me too - post AVR. Did query with the surgical team at 13 week sign-off. There was some reference to having had my lungs deflated during surgery. Didn't come away any the wiser really .Was it a bad thing? Would it get better or worse so still very much in the dark. Also I seem to have developed a much more violent burp, so maybe some residual damage from the TOE during surgery. Strange but minor in the overall scheme of things. I'm 6 months post - op so maybe still some healing time to go.

[BusaMags in reply to IanGordon]

Thanks for your reply. Lots of reasons given but nothing major so not worried. Take care x

[invictaAlec]

I have this. It started almost immediately after my triple bypass operation in June of this year. As you say its entirely involuntary. It still happens but to a lesser extent now.

I met a lady at rehab classes who told me she has lived with this effect for years, even before her operation to fit a stent recently.

She put it down to being a shallow breather and I've always classed myself as a shallow breather too. Without having a real answer to your question it would appear its lung related.

I'm just pleased to know that I'm not alone in having the occasional (unexpected) big intake of air!

Alec.

[BusaMags in reply to invictaAlec]

Thanks for replying. Like you and the lady I,m a shallow breather. It does feel like I just need that extra intake of air. So many others suffer with this by the looks of it that's it's more common than we all thought. Take care x

[MKB38]

Funnily enough, after my AVR I found myself (what can only be described as) snorting like a pig, when I was asleep. I've always been a snorer, but this was 10 times worse, it used to wake me up! I'm pleased to say it stopped after about 4 to 6 weeks post op. Sorry I don't have an explanation.

[BusaMags]

Thank you for replying. Think my husband would ban me to the spare bed lol. Take care x